Mainstreaming of the Right and a New Right-Wing Movement in Japan
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2015-08
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[Honolulu] : [University of Hawaii at Manoa], [August 2015]
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This thesis is a study of social change in contemporary Japan, which uses the success of a right-wing social movement as a case. My analysis focuses on the “Activist-Conservative” movement that had emerged in the late 2000’s and developed rapidly. Drawing on the analysis of original and secondary interview data with 46 right-wing activists, qualitative content analysis of right-wing magazines, and the review of various existing resources, I explore reasons people are motivated to take part in such activities and the reasons the movement was able to achieve a degree of success in contemporary Japanese society. The thesis argues that Japan’s new rightwing mobilization should be understood as a reaction to Japan’s economic, political, and symbolic power decline in East Asia. It was the macro-level economic and political changes in East Asia that enabled the success of the new right-wing movement.
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M.A. University of Hawaii at Manoa 2015.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Social Movements, Conservatism, Right-Wing, Social Change, Japan and East Asia
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Theses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Sociology
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