MINIKOMI: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies

[ Autor*innen | Contributors | 著者紹介 ] MINIKOMI 89

2022-06-03T15:54:24+00:00

Judith BÖHLER Klinik Ottakring/Wiener Gesundheitsverbund, Wien, Österreich
Anita DREXLER Osaka University, Japan
Sepp LINHART University of Vienna, Austria
OSHIMA Sachi Tsuda University, Japan
Isabelle PROCHASKA-MEYER University of Vienna, Austria
Sarah STARK Ghent University, Belgium
Marija TOMIC University of Vienna, Austria
Cosima WAGNER Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Cover & ToC - MINIKOMI 89

2022-06-03T14:20:43+00:00

[ Inhalt | Table of Contents | 目次 ] - MINIKOMI 89

4 [ Editorial | 序文 ] MINIKOMI 89
Isabelle PROCHASKA-MEYER
5 [ Artikel | Article | 論文 ]
Ken-Spielanleitungen 1771 bis 1997: Unbeachtete Quellen für Kultur-, Literatur-, Sozial- und Kunstgeschichte
Sepp LINHART
20 [ Artikel | Article | 論文 ]
Naming Conventions in Tokyo’s rakugo World
Sarah STARK
35 [ Bericht | Report | 報告書 ]
Creating the Concert “Listen to Haruki Murakami”: Challenges and Difficulties from an Insider’s Perspective
OSHIMA Sachi
48 [ Artikel | Article | 論文 ]
Stereotype Darstellungen okinawanischer Figuren in Nakae Yūjis Film Nabī no koi
Marija TOMIC
65 [ Artikel | Article | 論文 ]
Karute oder chāto? Eine Untersuchung zur Verwendung deutscher Lehnwörter in der japanischen Medizinsprache bei Spitalsärzt*innen in Tōkyō und Nagoya
Judith BÖHLER
78 [ Gespräch | Interview | 対談 ]
Japan auf dem Weg zu einer Roboter-Gesellschaft? Visionen und Realitäten am Beispiel der Pflegerobotik
Cosima WAGNER im Gespräch mit Isabelle PROCHASKA-MEYER
90 [ Rezension | Review | 批評 ]
Rezension zum Sammelband Sprachlich-literarische “Aggregatzustände” im Japanischen: Europäische Japan-Diskurse 1998-2018
Anita DREXLER
97 [ Autor*innen | Contributors | 著者紹介 ]

Rezension zum Sammelband Sprachlich-literarische »Aggregatzustände« im Japanischen: Europäische Japan-Diskurse 1998-2018

2021-10-11T20:13:36+00:00

In der vorliegenden Rezension soll der 2020 im be.bra wissenschaft verlag, Berlin, erschienene Sammelband Sprachlich-literarische literarische »Aggregatzustände« im Japanischen: Europäische Japan-Diskurse 1998 – 2018 näher besprochen werden. Neben der Herausarbeitung der Hauptargumentationslinien einer Reihe von inhaltlich teils stark divergierender Beiträge, welche durch die Kernthemen Transmedialität, Freizeit und Literatur lose zusammengehalten werden, richtete ich mein Augenmerk auf die Frage, inwiefern es dem Herausgeber und den Autor*innen gelungen war, ihr selbstgestecktes Ziel, nicht nur ein akademisches, sondern auch ein interessiertes Laienpublikum anzusprechen, zu erreichen. Meiner Einschätzung nach konnte dieser Selbstanspruch zu weiten Teilen erfolgreich umgesetzt werden. Als entscheidende Faktoren identifiziere ich einerseits die Bitte des Herausgebers um einen zugänglichen, an der mündlichen Ausdrucksweise angelehnten Schreibstil und andererseits die Einarbeitung kurzer thematischer Einführungen in die meisten der eingereichten Aufsätze. Mit der vorliegenden Evaluierung dieses Projektes hoffe ich zur Ausarbeitung vertiefender Strategien beizutragen, die – auch jenseits der Populärwissenschaft – einer breitenwirksameren Verbreitung japanologischer Inhalte zuträglich sein werden.

Japan auf dem Weg zu einer Roboter-Gesellschaft? Visionen und Realitäten am Beispiel der Pflegerobotik

2022-06-03T15:40:07+00:00

In this interview, Cosima Wagner reflects on her observations about robot technological visions and development in Japan in the last decades. In particular, she traces the changes to a so-called “technological optimism” (especially in social robot technology) and the turning point of the 2011 triple disaster which provided a stark reality check. While drawing from her recent fieldwork in care and welfare settings as part of an interdisciplinary team researching technological empowerment, she presents concerned voices from medical staff about so-called “care robots”. Contrary to the much-propagated image of Japan as a “robot loving nation”, she points out the distortion between technological development and the needs of the real world (genba), as well as the importance of participatory technology development.

Ken-Spielanleitungen 1771 bis 1997: Unbeachtete Quellen für Kultur-, Literatur-, Sozial- und Kunstgeschichte

2022-06-03T14:46:25+00:00

Ken 拳 was the most popular game in Japan from the middle of the 18^th to the middle of the 20^th century. Originating in China and developing initially in the licensed quarters this drinking game soon transcended the boundaries of the red light districts and became popular among the whole population, young and old, men and women, commoners and samurai, either as numbers-ken (hon-ken, kazu-ken) or as sansukumi-ken (ken of the three who are afraid of one another), especially as fox-ken (kitsune-ken, Tōhachi-ken). The existence of six instruction books for the game published within the short time span of 85 years only during the late Edo period gives convincing proof of the game’s popularity. The author discusses these six books and four other ones from the 20th century and states that these instruction books may not only be consulted by ken players or researchers in the history of games, but their contents might be valuable also for researchers in literary, cultural, art and social history of Japan.

Naming Conventions in Tokyo’s Rakugo World

2021-02-22T16:54:19+00:00

This paper explores naming conventions in rakugo, a Japanese stage art often translated as “Japanese storytelling”. Rakugo performers (rakugoka) receive stage names upon the start of their training. This stage name does not only show belonging to their own master, it also legitimizes their status, is proof of artistic lineage and grants authorization to perform. Upon the start of training (deshi-iri), the name is bestowed by the master and may again be changed at important career life stages, such as promotion to futatsume (start to mid-career performer) and shin’uchi (master) status. Some performers are given names of deceased performers as a sign of their skills and to show they will continue in the previous name holder’s tradition.

This paper aims to show both naming structure and naming elements of stage names in contemporary Tokyo’s rakugo community and further explores naming rights, naming criteria and differences at various career stages and possible re-naming factors.

Creating the Concert “Listen to Haruki Murakami”: Challenges and Difficulties from an Insider’s Perspective

2021-05-18T16:19:12+00:00

The concert “Listen to Haruki Murakami,” created in 2015, toured in Singapore and Seoul as a Japan Foundation project. Japanese author Murakami Haruki is well-known for his frequent references to music in his works; however, there had been no officially licensed permitted concert before this project, which integrated and interweaved the texts and songs used in his works. In this essay, the author, who was the chief officer in charge of this concert, reflects on the process of creating this concert in chronological order and describes challenges and difficulties she faced from an insider’s point of view. More specifically, this essay covers the questions of (a) how the basic concept was created, (b) how the songs were selected from Murakami’s novels, (c) how Murakami’s texts, including the Japanese originals, English translation, and Korean translation, were selected for the concert, and (d) how the concert script was finalised through collaboration with those involved in this project.

Stereotype Darstellungen okinawanischer Figuren in Nakae Yūjis Film Nabī no koi

2022-06-03T15:22:58+00:00

The following article discusses the film Nabī no koi (Nabbie’s Love, 1999) by Japanese director Nakae Yūji. The movie was released at the beginning of the so called ‘Okinawa boom’ in Japan in the 1990s and contributed significantly to promoting Okinawa as an idyllic paradise to people from the Japanese main islands. Since Nakae intended to depict everyday life of the Okinawan people, this article explores what images of Okinawa are actually (re)created within the film and how these can be read in the context of the tense political and cultural relationship between Okinawa and Japan. By analysing the main and secondary characters, it will be determined whether Nabī no koi breaks down or reproduces the dichotomy of a progressive Japan and a regressive Okinawa and how the aspect of gender is used to enforce that very dichotomy. Based on this analysis it will be shown whether Nabī no koi depicts Okinawa as part of the Japanese main islands or not.

Karute oder Chāto?

2021-04-19T22:13:02+00:00

Japan’s medical history was greatly influenced by German medicine. As a result, several German loanwords are still in use today as clinical terms in Japanese medical terminology. However, the progressive shift to English for scientific communication may have made some terms obsolete. This study aims to uncover to what extent German loanwords in Japanese medical terminology have been replaced by their English counterparts. The author (herself a medical student at the time of the study) conducted a survey via questionnaire among practicing physicians working in several departments of two major Japanese hospitals. Out of 39 pairs of loanwords of German origin and their English counterparts, participants were instructed to select the term they would rather use, and finally to state whether they thought German was still relevant to Japanese medical terminology. The study showed that, among the medical terms selected for the questionnaire, German loanwords prevailed, despite the near-complete shift to English as a scientific language. This may be due to the sociolinguistic significance of medical jargon, namely the usage of loanwords for efficient and enciphered communication between physicians, as well as for building their own professional identity.

Editorial MINIKOMI 89

2022-05-24T17:19:35+00:00

Während ich diese Zeilen verfasse, wütet sowohl in Österreich als auch in Japan noch immer die Omikron-Welle. Die Pandemie hat in den vergangenen zwei Jahren auch das Vereinsleben des AAJ und die Redaktionsarbeit für die vorliegende MINIKOMI-Ausgabe geprägt. ...