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Half a Century of Japanese Theater: The 1990's Part I (review)

Half a Century of Japanese Theater: The 1990's Part I (review) HALF A CENTURY OF JAPANESE THEATER I: 1990'S PART 1. Edited by Japan Playwrights Association. Tokyo: Kinokuniya, 1999. 496 pp. 5000 yen This welcome book, funded by Japan's Agency of Cultural Affairs, is the first in a series of translations of contemporary Japanese plays. The six playwrights chosen for this volume exhibit thematic concerns and distinctive styles which might surprise those who imagine that modern Japanese theatre is "imitation Western drama." All are the leaders of major theatrical troupes. The insightful general introduction by Hasebe Hiroshi is translated by Mari Boyd. Hasebe sketches the forces affecting Japanese theatre during the last decade of the twentieth century. He notes the bursting of the economic bubble of the 1980s and Japan's subsequent recession, the end of the cold war, the death of the Shöwa emperor (closing any possibility that he might accept responsibility for wartime atrocities), Japan's financial complicity in the Gulf War, the political ambitions and deadly sarin (poison gas) attacks by followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyö, the fall of the Liberal Democrats after thirty-eight years in power, and the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995, which resulted in more than six thousand deaths and the destruction of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Half a Century of Japanese Theater: The 1990's Part I (review)

Sorgenfrei, Carol Fisher
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 17 (2) – Sep 1, 2000
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HALF A CENTURY OF JAPANESE THEATER I: 1990'S PART 1. Edited by Japan Playwrights Association. Tokyo: Kinokuniya, 1999. 496 pp. 5000 yen This welcome book, funded by Japan's Agency of Cultural Affairs, is the first in a series of translations of contemporary Japanese plays. The six playwrights chosen for this volume exhibit thematic concerns and distinctive styles which might surprise those who imagine that modern Japanese theatre is "imitation Western drama." All are the leaders of major theatrical troupes. The insightful general introduction by Hasebe Hiroshi is translated by Mari Boyd. Hasebe sketches the forces affecting Japanese theatre during the last decade of the twentieth century. He notes the bursting of the economic bubble of the 1980s and Japan's subsequent recession, the end of the cold war, the death of the Shöwa emperor (closing any possibility that he might accept responsibility for wartime atrocities), Japan's financial complicity in the Gulf War, the political ambitions and deadly sarin (poison gas) attacks by followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyö, the fall of the Liberal Democrats after thirty-eight years in power, and the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995, which resulted in more than six thousand deaths and the destruction of

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