Ennobling the Savage Northeast: Popular Visions of Tōhoku, 1980-2011
Nathan HOPSON, Professeur à l’Université de Nagoya, invité à l’EHESS en mars 2017, donnera une conférence dans le cadre du séminaire collectif du Centre Japon le 16 mars 2017. Northeast Japan (Tōhoku) became the subject of world attention six years ago, with the triple disaster of March 2011. However, Tōhoku’s history and significance to emic understandings of Japanese self and nationhood remain poorly understood. This lecture explores the region’s place in postwar Japanese thought, focusing on the period 1980-2011. After 1945,...











































