The break-up of SMAP and the rise of entrepreneurial masculinity in 2010s Japan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In SMAP’s post-break-up social media output, there was a shift in the kind of masculinity embodied by the performers: from the beautiful, sexually desirable mode of masculinity associated with their Heisei heyday to a more vulnerable mode of masculinity that emphasized intimacy and authenticity. I call this more recent mode of masculinity ‘entrepreneurial masculinity’, drawing on Akiko Takeyama’s study of male hosts, who use romance, emotion and intimacy to connect with customers. From an object of desire, particularly sexual desire, the male body changes to an entity associated with vulnerability. This article explores different kinds of vulnerability in SMAP’s post-break-up output, particularly in social media posts by member Katori Shingo: vulnerability to loneliness, vulnerability to social and economic precarity and vulnerability to violence. This shift with regard to the body and masculinity in idol culture reflects trends of increased social and economic precarity in neo-liberal Japan.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".