ノダ　マナブ   Noda Manabu   野田　学    所属   明治大学  文学部    職種   専任教授
発表年月日	2010/02/27
発表テーマ	Seen from a Distance: Shibuya, Tokyo, as a Bubble Downtown
会議名	Creating Cities: Culture, Space and Sustainability (February 25-28, 2010)
主催者	Japan Center of Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich
学会区分	国際学会
発表形式	口頭（一般）
単独共同区分	単独
開催地名	Munich, Germany
概要	Shibuya is a downtown area symbolic of the 80s' economic boom in Japan. From the 90s on, however, the town came to attract people of the lower age bands. Unlike those who congregated in the 60s Shinjuku, most of the young in Shibuya in their teens and 20s belong to the second and third generations of mega-Tokyoites coming from Shibuya's suburban hinterland along the private-run railways which pass the Shibuya terminal station. These are the so-called "Ice-age" generations who had to face the tough job market in the late 90s and early noughties, the decade starting from the year 2000. Toshiki Okada's Five Days in March and Ryo Iwamatsu's Far Away from Shibuya both portray these generations against the backdrop of Shibuya as the symbolic town of the 80s' economic boom. They feature Maruyama-cho, a district at the periphery of Shibuya's downtown area rife with hotels exclusively for sex (Far Away from Shibuya is set in the adjacent residential area called Nampeidai-cho, but the play's heroine, Marie, is a prostitute in Maruyama-cho). They are the plays about these marginalized generations viewing from geographical peripheries the boom-symbolic Shibuya as something which is indeed remote from them.