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David Leheny - Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan - 9780801444180 - V9780801444180
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Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan

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Description for Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.

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 toward new military solutions, and away from an earlier emphasis on law enforcement. Although they seem unrelated, these two policies reveal the unintended consequences of attempts to enforce international norms at the national level.

In Think Global, Fear Local, David Leheny posits that when states abide by international agreements to clamp down on transnational crime and security concerns, they respond ... Read more

Although opponents of child prostitution and pornography were primarily concerned about the victimization of children in poor nations by wealthy foreigners, the Japanese law has been largely used to crack down on "compensated dating," in which middle-class Japanese schoolgirls date and sometimes have sex with adults. Many Japanese policymakers viewed these girls as villains, and subsequent legal developments have aimed to constrain teenage sexual activities as well as to punish predatory adults. Likewise, following changes in the country's counterterrorism policy, some Japanese leaders have redefined a host of other threats—especially from North Korea—as "terrorist" menaces requiring a more robust and active Japanese military.

Drawing from sources as diverse as parliamentary debate records and contemporary film and literature, Leheny uses these two very different cases to argue that international norms can serve as political tools, allowing states to enhance their coercive authority.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801444180
SKU
V9780801444180
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About David Leheny
David Leheny is Henry Wendt III '55 Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure, also from Cornell.

Reviews for Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan
"David Leheny's book vividly illustrates how vague and not-so-vague fear is pervasive in post-Cold War and post-9/11 Japanese society."
Takashi Inoguchi, Chuo University "David Leheny's brilliant book shows how global norms are transformed in Japan by officials in the law enforcement and security fields who seek expanded state powers to target national problems and offer credible solutions. This analysis ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan


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