Think Global, Fear Local : : Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan / / David Leheny.
In 1999, responding to international concerns about the sexual exploitation of children, the Japanese Diet voted unanimously to ban child prostitution and child pornography. Two years later, in the wake of 9/11, Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet radically shifted government counterterrorism policy to...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 7 halftones, 1 chart/graph |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- JAPANESE TERMS AND CDNVENTIDNS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Chapter One. Fear, Norms, and Politics in Contemporary Japan
- Chapter Two. A "Vague Anxiety" in 1990' s Japan
- Chapter Three. "Whatever It Is, It's Bad, So Stop It"
- Chapter Four. Guidance, Protection, and Punishment in Japan's Child Sex Laws
- Chapter Five. Trust in Japan, Not in Counterterrorism
- Chapter Six. The Self-Fulfilling Afterthought
- Chapter Seven. Local Scapegoats and Other Unintended Consequences
- Notes
- Index