Abstract
Japan is home to a vibrant engagement with such Jamaican popular cultural expressions as roots reggae and dancehall music. In this article I explore how this engagement has come to be informed by two recent developments in the country: a long recession that began in the early 1990s and the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters of March 2011. Drawing on the literatures on Afro-Asia and multi-sited ethnography, I argue for the need to consider Japanese reggae artistic responses to these events not only in the immediate sociohistorical context of Japan, but also as a function of Japanese-Jamaican exchange.
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