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Japan: The Price of Normalcy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

John Feffer
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In the early 1990s, the Japanese military adopted a cute mascot by the name of Prince Pickles. He's a little guy with a big head and big eyes who lives in a tranquil country bordering on some pretty dangerous territory. In three action-packed comic books aimed at young people, Prince Pickles overcomes his naïve belief that a land at peace needs no army. He enlists in his own country's forces to defend against the predations of the neighboring Evil Empire. He endures intensive training. He helps with disaster relief. He goes on peacekeeping missions. And of course, after these mini-heroic efforts, Prince Pickles gets the girl, his comrade-in-arms Miss Parsley.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , January 2009 , e3
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Notes

[1] Sabine Fruhstuck, Uneasy Warriors (University of California Press, 2007), p. 136.

[2] Ibid., p. 138.

[3] Andrew Oros, Normalizing Japan (Stanford University Press, 2008), p. 174

[4] Richard J. Samuels, Security Japan (Cornell University Press, 2008), p. 33.

[5] Mari Yamamoto, Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan (RoutledgeCurzon 2004), pp. 215-6.

[6] Samuels, p. 91

[7] Ibid., p. 87

[8] Oros, p. 178

[9] Fruhstuck, p. 29

[10] Ibid., p. 147

[11] Ibid., p. 91, 125

[12] Gavan McCormack, Client State: Japan in the American Embrace (Verso, 2007), p. 22.

[13] Ibid., p. 140

[14] Samuels, p. 121

[15] McCormack, p. 87

[16] Ibid., p.54