Behind The Mask by Ian Buruma
On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes
A collection of cultural essays examining how modern Japanese identity is staged through archetypal figures—devoted mothers, sexual demons, transvestite performers, yakuza, salarymen, and samurai—across theater, film, television, and popular media. Blending reportage, history, and criticism, it looks behind public personas to reveal anxieties about gender, power, and modernity, showing how myths and fantasies both mirror and mold everyday life in postwar Japan amid consumerism and Western influence.
- Published
- 1984
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 288-320
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
- - A Japanese Mirror
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