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Think Global, Fear Local : Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Leheny, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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