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Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea by Celeste L. Arrington (review)

Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea by... conclusion that merely rehashes the previous chapters and adds nothing but verbiage, but this is a remarkably disquieting place to finish a book about ’s future—marked by demographic challenges and the potential for natural and technological disasters, but also by pockets of resilience, economic strength, and technological aptitude. This may well have been the editors’ goal, and indeed in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, I am perhaps especially attuned to the sound of democracy’s imminent demise; nonetheless, it still feels like a jarring note on which to conclude. One wonders how the rest of the book might have read differently had this chapter, rather than Shirahase’s, opened it. After all, Shirahase sets the demographic boundaries that will almost certainly affect a wide array of ’s possible futures, but Repeta and Jones—even if they do not actually predict a weakening of ’s democracy—seem to view the future as almost an imaginary, a comprehensive set of ideas used to depict something not fully known, or perhaps not yet. Whatever happens to ’s constitution, it surely seems meaningful that leaders of ’s ruling party view the country’s future as one best defined by an ostensibly native communitarianism rather than by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Japanese Studies Society for Japanese Studies

Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea by Celeste L. Arrington (review)

Nottage, Luke
The Journal of Japanese Studies , Volume 43 (2) – Jul 22, 2017
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conclusion that merely rehashes the previous chapters and adds nothing but verbiage, but this is a remarkably disquieting place to finish a book about ’s future—marked by demographic challenges and the potential for natural and technological disasters, but also by pockets of resilience, economic strength, and technological aptitude. This may well have been the editors’ goal, and indeed in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, I am perhaps especially attuned to the sound of democracy’s imminent demise; nonetheless, it still feels like a jarring note on which to conclude. One wonders how the rest of the book might have read differently had this chapter, rather than Shirahase’s, opened it. After all, Shirahase sets the demographic boundaries that will almost certainly affect a wide array of ’s possible futures, but Repeta and Jones—even if they do not actually predict a weakening of ’s democracy—seem to view the future as almost an imaginary, a comprehensive set of ideas used to depict something not fully known, or perhaps not yet. Whatever happens to ’s constitution, it surely seems meaningful that leaders of ’s ruling party view the country’s future as one best defined by an ostensibly native communitarianism rather than by

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Published: Jul 22, 2017

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