Chapter
The post-bubble era and research on consumption
Konbini, landscape, and sustainable art
Post-Bubble Japanese Department Stores
The Need to Search for New Paradigms
Department stores in Japan
Educating customers: Is my diamond the right size? Am I wearing the right dress?
Developing new customer groups
Mangos on Marine Day: Post-bubble department stores
Consumption of Fast Fashion in Japan
Local Brands and Global Environment
Background: Social stratification and consumer behaviour
Declining incomes and consumer expenditures
Fast Retailing: The outdoor brand UNIQLO
Ryōhin Keikaku: The label without a label – Mujirushi Ryōhin
Fast fashion and sustainability
International competitors: ZARA and H&M
A high-end fashion retailer: Louis Vuitton
The significance of price, brand, quality, and sustainability: The post-bubble consumer
The Rise of the Convenience Store in Post-Industrial Japan
Coming of age with konbini
Convenience becoming ‘konbini’
Konbini panics and convenience concerns
‘Konbinize Me’: Waste and want
National branding and food self-sufficiency
Consuming Domesticity in Post-Bubble Japan
The Hanako tribe: Single women as hedonistic consumers
The production of new consuming tribes: Women’s magazines at the burst of the bubble
The new-type housewives as a post-bubble return to ‘traditional’ gender roles?
Female domesticity is fun: Marketing the joy of housewifery
Tradition in fashionable wear: Designer aprons as symbols of the new femininity
Female beauty and domesticity as a new kind of national spirit
The Metamorphosis of Excess
‘Rubbish Houses’ and the Imagined Trajectory of Things in Post-Bubble Japan
Attack of the rubbish aunt!
Gomi yashiki as the uncanny
The exaltedness of the new
Secondhandedness and mottainai
‘A complicated emotion’: Taguchi’s ‘Jamira’
Rubbish, Artefacts, and Mortuary Rituals
Rubbish, art, and artefacts
Robots and rubbish: Consumption and disposal
Art and Consumption in Post-Bubble Japan
From Postmodern Irony to Shared Engagement
Introduction: Japan as consumer society
The artist as ethnographer
Representations of consumption
Community-based consumption
The Fate of Landscape in Post-War Japanese Art and Visual Culture
A.K.A. Serial Killer and the extinction of landscape
PROVOKE and the Discover Japan campaign
Lee U-fan’s aesthetics: Phenomenology and structuralism
Kawabata Yasunari and his Hawai’i lecture
Karatani Kōjin’s theory of landscape
Long epilogue: Sugimoto Hiroshi and the notion of post-landscape
Satoyama at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012
Satoyama and sustainable art
Satoyama art and ‘the festivalization of culture’
Artistic Recycling in Japan Today
‘Arts and Memories’: Imamura Ryōsuke and Kotani Shinsuke
Eternal flow: Mirosław Bałka and Kamoji Kōji
Displacement – Chaos and reorder: Morisue Yumiko, Terada Shūko, and Nohara Kenji
Figure 2.1 UNIQLO store on the Ginza in Tokyo
Figure 4.1 Pork cutlet (tonkatsu) is one of several Western dishes introduced tothe Japanese diet during the early decades of the twentieth century
Figure 4.2 DVD case of the documentary Washoku Dream: Beyond Sushi (2015)
Figure 8.1 Morimura Yasumasa, Elder Sister (1991)
Figure 8.2 Kusama hands a mirror ball to a member of the audience
Figure 8.3 Nishiko, Jishin o naosu purojekuto (Repairing earthquake project)(2012), object no. 201104
Figure 10.1 Andrew Burns Architects, Australia House (2012)
Figure 10.2 Mikan + Sogabe Lab, Gejō kayabuki no tō (Gejō thatch tower) (2012)
Figure 10.3 Kuwakubo Ryōta, Lost #6 (2012)
Figure 10.4 Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger, GHOST SATELLITES (2012)
Figure 10.5 Mutō Akiko, Omoide no niwa T+S+U+M+A+R+I (Garden of memoriesT+S+U+M+A+R+I) (2012)
Figure 10.6 Christian Boltanski, No Man’s Land (2012)
Figure 11.1 Imamura Ryōsuke, Amaoto to heya (Rain and Room) (2013)
Figure 11.2 Kotani Shinsuke, Haiburiddo sāfin (Hybrid surfing) (2013), detail
Figure 11.3 Mirosław Bałka, The Fall (2001)
Figure 11.4 Kamoji Kōji, Seibutsu (Still life) (2013)
Figure 11.5 Morisue Yumiko, Dekki burashi (Deck brush) (2011)
Figure 11.6 Terada Shūko, Orenji ni tomoru kage (Shadow in orange colour) (2011),detail
Figure 11.7 Nohara Kenji, Nakkurī: Nukeana to nari daibingu (KnuckLie – Dive intothe loophole) (2011), detail
Table 2.1 Disposable incomes, consumption expenditures, and expenditures forclothing and footware: Yearly average of monthly disbursements perhousehold (total household)
Table 2.2 Fast Retailing: Number of stores between 1998 and 2015
Table 2.3 Global expansion of UNIQLO stores
Table 2.4 Global expansion of MUJI stores
Table 2.5 Net sales of Inditex (ZARA), H&M (excluding VAT), Fast Retailing, andRyōhin Keikaku (currency: billions of euro)
Table 3.1 Age cohorts and konbini expansion
Table 4.1 ‘Washoku – Try Japan’s Good Food’ campaign events, 2006-2011