Full Metal Apache

[Dave Monroe]

>From Takayuki Tatsumi, Full Metal Apache: Transactions
Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Durham,
NC: Duke UP, 2006), Ch. 1, "Mikadophilia, or The Fate
of Cyborgian Identity in the Postmillenarian Milieu,"
pp. 9-37 ...

"... symptomatic of the oil shock and the end of the
Vietnam War, the year 1973 saw the astonishing
coincidence between [Sakyo Komatsu's]  Japan Sinks and
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, neither of which
could have been written without the kind of nuclear
imaginatin that is represented by Godzilla.  Komatsu
and Pynchon undoubtedly meditated upon what would
happen to the postapocalyptic junkyard and how we
should react to the age of reconstruction.  This is
how they both in equal measure predicted postdiasporic
and globally networked space in the posteighties
reality, in which everything is connected with
everything else, mostly as if through a web of
conspiracy."  (p. 14)

http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=3774-6

Komatsu, Sakyô.  Japan Sinks.
   Trans. Michael Gallagher.  NY: Harper & Row,
   1976.  Tokyo, NY, London: Kodansha, 1995.

An Interview with Komatsu Sakyô

http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/88/komatsu%20interview.htm

Nippon chinbotsu (1973)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070447/

Nihon chinbotsu (2006)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473064/

http://www.monsterzero.us/editorials/editorials.php?catID=&subCatID=15&contentID=693

http://www.tohokingdom.com/movies/submersion_of_japan.htm

http://media.putfile.com/The-Sinking-Of-Japan

Napier, Susan J.  "Panic Sites: The Japanese
   Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira."
   Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2
   (Summer, 1993), pp. 327-51.

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0095-6848(199322)19%3A2%3C327%3APSTJIO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

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