Between Product and Cuisine: The Moral Economies of Food among Young Chinese People in Japan

Coates, Jamie

doi:10.1177/1868102619898927

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“…Central Tokyo has only a few neighbourhoods with a concentration of migrants great enough to support restaurants catering specifically to the tastes of patrons from their own community (and Japanese are the majority of customers even in most of these). This includes, for example, Chinese restaurants frequented by new Chinese migrants in the 'New Chinatown' of Ikebukuro (see Coates, 2020). In West Tokyo, with its relatively small and dispersed migrant populations, nearly all migrant eateries are oriented towards the dominant Japanese community.…”

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Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places

Wessendorf

Farrer

2021

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In global cities such as London and Tokyo, there are neighbourhoods where ethnic, religious, cultural and other forms of diversity associated with migration are commonplace and others where migrants are regarded as unusual or even out-of-place. In both types of contexts, migrant-run eateries are spaces in which people of various backgrounds interact. In some contexts, eateries may serve as ‘third places’ in which regular forms of intercultural conviviality occur, yet in others, interactions are civil but fleeting. This comparative paper is based on findings from two ethnographic neighbourhood studies in West Tokyo and East London. The Tokyo neighbourhood of Nishi-Ogikubo is one of emerging diversity, in which migrant entrepreneurship is rather new and uncommon, whereas East London has seen immigration for decades and migrant-run businesses are so common as to be taken-for-granted. In Tokyo the Japanese norms of ‘drinking communication’ in small eating and drinking spots inevitably involve migrant proprietors and their customers more deeply in social interactions. In East London, in contrast, intercultural interactions are much more commonplace in public and semi-public spaces, but in the case of migrant-run eateries, they are characterized by somewhat superficial encounters. This paper contributes to scholarship on the role of third places for intercultural relations, highlighting the importance of established cultural norms of interaction in specific third places. By comparing two vastly different contexts regarding the extent of immigration-related diversity, it demonstrates how encounters between residents of different backgrounds are deeply embedded in cultural norms of interaction in these places, and how migrant entrepreneurs in each context adapt to these established norms.

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Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places

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2021

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“…Regular Japanese restaurants offer traditional and contemporary food from that country, including bento, onigiri, maki, and ramen among others (Coates, 2019;Tikhotskaya, 2021). One common visual in anime is characters settling in to enjoy their box lunches.…”

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Exposure to Anime in Peru and Its Relationship with Demand for Goods and Services Related to Japanese Popular Culture

Fernández-Bedoya

Gago-Chávez

Meneses-La-Riva

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Japanese animation, usually referred as anime, has gained popularity around the world. Anime fans, when exposed to this audio-visual product, generate unique feelings, which could develop into an attraction for other cultural products of Japanese origin. The objective of the study is to determinate significates relationships between exposure to anime and the raising demand for goods and services related to Japanese popular (in the means of desire to consume manga, to eat Japanese cuisine, to wear Japanese fashion, to attend a Japanese rock or pop concert, to study the Japanese language, and to travel to Japan). The research was conducted in Arenales Plaza, a famous otaku congregation place located in Lima, Peru. Data was collected through a questionnaire developed by the authors, applied to a sample of 68 observations. The descriptive results identified high levels in each of the observed variables. As for the inferential results, Spearman's rho statistical test determined that there was a relationship between exposure to anime and the desire to consume manga (p. < 0.001; r = 0.75), desire to consume Japanese cuisine (p. < 0.001; r = 0.65), desire to consume Japanese fashion (p. < 0.001; r = 0.65), desire to consume Japanese pop and rock music (p. < 0.001; r = 0.25), desire to study Japanese (p. < 0.001; r = 0.25), and desire to travel to Japan (p. < 0.001; r = 0.53). Received: 14 June 2022 / Accepted: 20 August 2022 / Published: 2 September 2022

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Between Product and Cuisine: The Moral Economies of Food among Young Chinese People in Japan

Cited by 2 publications

References 34 publications

Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places

Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places

Exposure to Anime in Peru and Its Relationship with Demand for Goods and Services Related to Japanese Popular Culture

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