Meiji Restoration

Is Japan immune to social change? An essay on similarities and differences in the: society, culture and economy of the home islands, across Doctor Akagi and Akira. In this essay I will compare and contrast the Doctor Akagi and Akira. These two films, produced respectively 1988 (Akira) and 1998 (Doctor Akagi), show Japan in a time of crises, with destruction on the horizon. Throughout both the plot each film ventures in all aspects of society, from neo-slums to tech villas in Akira; to country…

Male homosexuality has a long tradition in Japan, dating back at least a thousand years with the establishment of homosexual art, poetries, and pieces of literature, such as The Tale of Genji and the Nanshōku ōkagami (The Great Mirror of Male Love) by Saikaku. Regardless of the fact homosexuality practices were largely emphasized in early Japanese literature and promoted within society in the early periods, the notion of the homosexual seems to have declined in current Japanese culture. This…