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Michael
Zielenziger: Wie in Japan
eine verlorene Generation entstanden ist
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Kurzbiographie
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2006 Buch "Shutting
Out the Sun"
- Professor am Institut für
Internationale Studien an der Universität von Berkeley in
Kalifornien
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Michael Zielenziger in seiner
eigenen Schreibe
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fehlt noch
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Klappentext
"The world’s second-wealthiest
country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake
America. But its failure to recover from the
economic collapse of the early 1990s was
unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of
disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest
suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all
industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of
untreated cases of depression. Equally as troubling
are the more than one million young men who shut
themselves in their rooms, withdrawing from society,
and the growing numbers of »parasite singles,« the
name given to single women who refuse to leave home,
marry, or bear children.
In Shutting Out the Sun, Michael Zielenziger
argues that Japan’s rigid, tradition-steeped society,
its aversion to change, and its distrust of
individuality and the expression of self are
stifling economic revival, political reform, and
social evolution. Giving a human face to the
country’s malaise, Zielenziger explains how these
constraints have driven intelligent, creative young
men to become modern-day hermits. At the same time,
young women, better educated than their mothers and
earning high salaries, are rejecting the traditional
path to marriage and motherhood, preferring to spend
their money on luxury goods and travel."
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KINGSTON kritisiert, dass ZIELENZIGER
das Zerrbild einer depressiven Gesellschaft zeichnet, die
mit den veränderten gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen nicht
klar kommt.
Unkritisch werden Phänomene wie die überwiegend männlichen
Hikikomori mit den weiblichen Unverheirateten, die von
Kritikern der japanischen Entwicklung als
parasitäre Singles
beschimpft werden, zusammengeworfen:
"This
relentlessly despairing assessment focuses on the various
pathologies of contemporary Japan but dismisses,
marginalizes or overlooks the sweeping transformations,
innovations, dynamism and cascade of reforms that don't fit
the narrative. Zielenziger uncritically accepts a casual
projection that there are 1 million hikikomori, one that
seems designed to get media attention. Focusing on this
dysfunctional 1 percent as the basis for assessing Japan
resonates with an agenda. The Japan that emerges from these
pages suffers the consequences.
One winces as Zielenziger serves up the usual cliches and
stereotypes. Here, yet again, we encounter a monolithic
Japan, a society of miserable conformists where diversity is
stifled in a book brimming with sweeping generalizations.
This caricature of Japan is put on the couch and subjected
to superficial psychoanalysis. Demonstrating that you find
what you are looking for, by examining Japan from the
perspective of severely depressed people, the author
constructs a depressing society.
(...).
In Zielenziger's Japan,
the hikikomori, unmarried women, childless and sexless
couples, suicides, alcoholics and name brand addicts are all
lumped together. He asserts that they share a rejection of
the »authoritarian mind-set that still drives Japanese
life.« But, would unmarried women really identify with the
hikikomori?
Plowing through
this dreary story of a nation sinking into the abyss, the
reader is left to ponder how Japan has managed to cope with
the various social ills shared in common by other advanced
industrialized nations. Is it really doing so badly in
comparison to other societies?"
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BARLOW mag ZIELENZIGER nicht darin
folgen, dass Phänomene des sozialen Rückzugs in Japan
besonders problematisch sind, weil im Gegensatz zu den USA
das Phänomen durch die japanische Kultur verstärkt wird:
"A
chunk of the book focuses on the hikikomori , the estimated
million-plus Japanese, almost all boys and men, who quit
society and become recluses in their bedrooms. Zielenziger
says theirs is a rational response to a broken society that
bullied them as youths and ostracizes creative loners. But
his empathy with the hikikomori seems a bit stretched. While
his take on Japan suggests you wouldn't want to live there
(at least if you're immersed in Western values), some of
these shut-ins' pathology seems personal rather than
collective: Several have assaulted and even murdered their
parents. By Zielenziger's count, the hikikomori are a
fraction of the nation's 126 million people. For all their
culture's problems, the vast majority of Japanese get out of
their bedrooms."
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Michael Zielenziger im WWW
www.shuttingoutthesun.com
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