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* * Ziyi Zhang and Ken Watanabe in Columbia Pictures‘ Memoirs of a Geisha – due out Dec. 2005 (US) /watch?v=80uhCUcoiKs * Final scenes: /watch?v=80uhCUcoiKs Speaking in English: /watch?v=DPAZQ6mhRcU * Trailer: /watch?v=b50vS55sFYU Final scene: /watch?v=80uhCUcoiKs * 日本研究 (Japanese Society) Chris Burgess (1号館1308研究室、内線164) cburgess@tsuda.ac.jp　/　http://edu.tsuda.ac.jp/~cburgess Sign here! Saki Attendance cards in あいうえお order by family name （=名字） Saki http://abritishprofinjapan.blogspot.jp/ Last Week: National Character as an ideological construction 国民性調査と国際比較調査 http://www.ism.ac.jp/kokuminsei/index.html 豪州における対日世論調査（結果） 外務省　2006年6月 Japanese have not always been perceived as hard-working… Reports by German missionaries in Japan, end of 19th century “The steady, systematic work to which we Nordic people were educated is unknown here on the average. “ “The Japanese worker is hardly willing to submit himself to the military discipline which according to our standards must rule the modern factory. He takes his holiday whenever he likes, he comes and goes as he pleases, and if he is scolded for such behavior, he leaves the company.” 宣教師 Re-inventing Japan How do we distinguish between people? Is nation the major (or even only important) distinguishing category?!? Where do we draw the lines? What gives us the confidence to sum up 127 million ‘Japanese’ in a single word? What categories of thought underlie concepts of nationhood? How are they used to create an image of ‘Japan’ Drawing Lines: Island Scenario Thinking about Nationality as our Dominant Identity… Nation as the dominant (only?) identity or category The idea of a person without nation seems to impose a strain on the modern imagination. A person must have a nationality as they must have a nose and two ears. All this seems obvious, though, alas, it is not true. But that it has come to appear so very obviously true is indeed an aspect, perhaps the very core, of the problem of nationalism. Having a nation is no