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PageMark-Color-Comp Job Name: 510681_JJS_Summer2015 PDF Page: JJS_Summer2015.p145.pdf ❏ OK to proceed Process Plan: VP.SinglePage.PDF ❏ Make corrections and proceed Date: 15-07-16 ❏ Make corrections and show another proof Time: 13:42:34 Signed: ___________________ Date: ______ Operator: ____________________________ 380 Journal of Japanese Studies 41:2 (2015) sented as times dominated by moral panics and angst-ridden crises, as histo- rian after historian chronicles this discursive explosion of social anxiety and the experiments in social reformation that were an (undeniably) important part of Meiji and Taisho-era history. Nonetheless, after reading book after such book, I often wonder how, amidst such a gloomy, invasive, repressive atmosphere, Japanese across the archipelago woke up and faced the day. But they did. The question for the historian is: Why? Surely, part of the answer lies in the opportunities, satisfactions, and pleasures they perceived (or hoped to fi nd) in the day ahead of them. How can historians respon- sibly and creatively investigate this element of past experience? How can historians turn our attention to the positive (yet not uncritical) embrace of modernity by myriad Japanese people? Partially inspired by the turn toward positive psychology, I wonder if historians are able to write what I call (only half-jokingly) “happy
The Journal of Japanese Studies – Society for Japanese Studies
Published: Jul 30, 2015
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