The Ruptures of Rhetoric: Cool Japan, Tokyo 2020 and Post-3.11 Tohoku

Policymakers in Japan have adopted a discourse to link the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to the recovery of Japan’s northern Tohoku region following the March 2011 triple disaster (3.11). This discourse has created a dissonance between 3.11-affected communities, policy-makers and wider Japan. To understand th...

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Published in:	New Voices in Japanese Studies
Main Author:	Pepi Ronalds
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Japan Foundation, Sydney 2019-07-01
Subjects:	Japan 3.11 contemporary Cool Japan nationalism rebuilding recovery Tohoku Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Online Access:	https://newvoices.org.au/volume-11/the-ruptures-of-rhetoric-cool-japan-tokyo-2020-and-post-3-11-tohoku