Comments on: J-Cin Sundays: Battle Royale and Japanese Nationalism http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/ A New England Expat in Japan. Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: On Eating School Lunch in Japan, Part 1 | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/#comment-2616 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:00:24 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=520#comment-2616 [...] This was hardly a progressive child-welfare policy: These kids were being fed potatoes while working in weapons factories or farms, replacements in the field for the men sent abroad for Japan’s invasion of anything it could [...]

]]> By: Is Japan a “Racist Monoculture”? On Anders Breivik’s Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/#comment-554 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:08:20 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=520#comment-554 [...] Granted, Japan’s small group of right-wing extremists are angry that I’m here. They want stricter immigration laws and the Emperor back in political power. They show off their anger by occasionally getting together in army uniforms for military drills in public parks. They drive a bus into Fukushima for no good reason, then end up getting satirized in movies like Battle Royale. [...]

]]> By: lina http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/#comment-387 Sun, 01 May 2011 16:54:42 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=520#comment-387 I have yet watched this but the write-up is intriguing enough for me to do it soon!. Fucked up movie or not.

]]> By: David http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/#comment-385 Sun, 01 May 2011 15:06:18 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=520#comment-385 Isn’t it in my Gravatar?
Well, here it is: http://ogijima.com
The blog contents have nothing to do with Battle Royale directly. For more details about the link between Battle Royale and my blog, check http://ogijima.com/about-2/ :-)

Cheers

]]> By: owwls http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/#comment-384 Sun, 01 May 2011 14:50:18 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=520#comment-384 Give us a link, sir!

]]> By: David http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/#comment-383 Sun, 01 May 2011 14:23:22 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=520#comment-383 Great review of this film that is one of my all-time favorite (and the indirect cause of why my blog is called the way it is).

]]> By: Blue Shoe http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/#comment-382 Sun, 01 May 2011 14:16:12 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=520#comment-382 Nice writeup. Remember watching this in college with a couple friends and thinking “what the f-?” Exciting to watch. Not too subtle in its political and social commentary.

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