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Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters book cover

1st Edition

Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters

Edited By Ashley Pearson, Thomas Giddens, Kieran Tranter Copyright 2018
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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In a world of globalised media, Japanese popular culture has become a signifi cant fountainhead for images, narrative, artefacts, and identity. From Pikachu, to instantly identifi able manga memes, to the darkness of adult anime, and the hyper- consumerism of product tie- ins, Japan has bequeathed to a globalised world a rich variety of ways to imagine, communicate, and interrogate tradition and... Read more

Table of Contents

Preface

　

List of Figures

List of contributors

　

  1. Crime Fighting Robots and Duelling Pocket Monsters: Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture

    2.

    Ashley Pearson, Thom Giddens and Kieran Tranter

    Possibilities of Justice

  2. The Symptoms of the Just: Psycho-Pass, Judg(e)ment, and the Asymptomatic Commons

    3.

    Daniel Hourigan

  3. Pirates, Giants and the State: Legal Authority in Manga and Anime

    4.

    James C Fisher

  4. Traumatic Origins in Hart and Ringu

    5.

    Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk

  5. Justice in the Sea of Corruption: Nausicaä as Ecological Jurisprudence

    6.

    Thomas Giddens

  6. Masterful Trainers and Villainous Liberators: Law and justice in Pokémon Black and White

    7.

    Dale Mitchell

    The Legal Subject

  7. Doing Right in the World with 100,000 Horsepower: Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), Essence, Posthumanity and Techno-humanism

    8.

    Kieran Tranter

  8. Caught in Couture: Regulating Clothing and the Body in Kill la Kill

    9. Rosie Taylor-Harding

  9. Holy Trans-Jurisdictional Representations of Justice, Batman!": Globalisation, Persona and Mask in Kuwata’s Batmanga and Morrison’s Batman, Incorporated

    10.

    Tim Peters

    The Power and Problem of the Image

  10. ‘Finding the Law’ through Creating and Consuming Gay Manga in Japan: From Heteronormativity to Queer Activism

    11.

    Thomas Baudinette

  11. Regulating Counterpublics in Yaoi Online Fan Communities

    12.

    Scott Beattie

  12. ‘Is Yaoi Illegal?!’: Let’s Get Real about the Potential Criminalisation of Yaoi

    13. Hadeel Al-Alosi

  13. Constitutional Analysis of Secondary Works in Japan: From Otaku to the World

    14.

    Yuichiro Tsuji

    Specificities of Law and Justice in Everyday Japan

  14. ‘The World is Rotten’: Execution and Power in Death Note and the Japanese Capital Punishment System

    15.

    Ashley Pearson

  15. Debts, Family, and Identity after the Collapse of the Bubble: Miyabe Miyuki’s All She Was Worth

    16.

    Giorgio Fabio Colombo

  16. Rules and Unruliness in Manga Depictions of Community Police Boxes

    17.

    Richard Powell and Hideyuki Kumaki

  17. The Image-Characters of Criminal Justice in Tokyo

Peter D Rush and Alison Young

Index

Biography

Ashley Pearson is a PhD candidate at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.

Thomas Giddens is a Senior Lecturer at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, United Kingdom.

Kieran Tranter is an Associate Professor at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.

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