ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on major nostalgic television programmes. It shows that Showa nostalgic television programmes of the twenty-first century pay little attention to bureaucrats and rather emphasize the private sector's achievement when they depict the post-war technological evolution. Technology has occupied a particularly significant position in Japanese society, although technology's close relationship with modernity and nationalism is common in a number of countries. The chapter provides films and television programmes that promote a sense of Showa nostalgia, the major driving forces that have achieved Japan's post-war development are attributed not to social powers and elites but to ordinary people and marginalized employees. It analyzes several typical episodes of Project X: Challengers and argues that this programme is a kind of 'revised historical narrative'; it will also show that the programme, reflecting discontent with Japan's post-war society and with the common orthodox understanding of it.
