Gender and Identity in Modern Japan
This project is designed to discuss the commodification of identity in Japan and how Japanese youth are rejecting traditional identities endorsed by the Nationalist regime in an effort to take control over their own identities within the globalized Capitalist culture. Japanese men and women have more freedom today than they have historically to pave their own futures and express themselves through sexuality and fashion. However, as new identities emerge and take root within the culture, Capitalist responses to the demand force unexpected changes. This project will explore the motivations for these changes, as well as the commodified response by the global market.

This page has paths:
- Are You Considered Beautiful In Japan? Courtney Cho
- Hope for the Future: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder Courtney Cho
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- Sexuality & The State
- The Salaryman Identity As An Ideal For Nationalism and Success
- The Cycle of Power
- The Salaryman, Hikikomori, and Hostesses
- Commodification of Desire
- How the body of the salaryman is utilized
- Hokikomori: Reclusive Lifestyle In Fear of the Salaryman Identity
- Shoujo and Doll-Like Beauty
- Fetishization of Gay Men in Manga
- Hostessing: A Role in Maintaining Corporate Relationships
- Madame Butterfly and the Westernization of Sexuality Discourses
- Who are Herbivore men?
- Salaryman Culture and Masculine Identity
- Coexistence in a Capitalist Japan
- Housewives' Magazines and Gender Confinement in Post-War Japan
- Cross-dressing in Shinjuku Ni-chōme and Transgender Culture in Japan
- Karoshi: Consequences of the Salaryman Identity
- Biopower
- Rejecting Japanese Nationalist Gender Identities
- Feminine Desire in Japan as an Agent of Social Change
- Beauty Culture
- Japanese Popular Culture