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Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan

Edited By Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto Copyright 2006
240 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into and out of Japan. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book argues that a key factor behind the changing nature of Japanese popular... Read more

Acknowledgements  Note on Japanese Names and Words  1. Introduction: Inside-Out Japan: Popular Culture and Globalization in the Context of Japan  Section 1: Reconfiguring Japan  2. Japanese Popular Culture and postcolonial Desire for 'Asia'  3. South Park does Japan: Going Global with Chimpokomon  4. The Film Bishônen and Queer(n) Asia through Japanese Popular Culture  5. Japan Beating: The Making and Marketing of Professional Taiko Music in Australia  6. Who Reads Comics? Manga Readership among First Generation Asian Immigrants in New Zealand  Section 2: Becoming Global  7. Sportsports: Cultural Exports and Imports in Japan's Contemporary Globalization Career  8. Writing as Out/Insiders: Contemporary Japan's Ekkyô Literature in Globalization  9. Japan's Original 'Gay Boom'  10. Subcultural Unconsciousness in Japan: The War and Japanese Contemporary Artists  11. The 'Most Crucial Education': Saotome Katsumoto, Globalization and Japanese Anti-War Thought  12. Loochoo Beat(s): Music In and Out of 'Okinawa'

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Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto

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