Introducing Japanese popular culture

Introducing Japanese Popular Culture : Serious Approaches to Playful Delights / Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade

Part I. Characters. Kumamon : Japan's Surprisingly Cheeky Mascot / Debra J. Occhi

Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat?!? : Tracking Japanese Cute Culture at Home and Abroad / Christine R. Yano

Part II. Television. The Grotesque Hero : Depictions of Justice in Tokusatsu Superhero Television Programs / Hirofumi Katsuno

Tokyo Love Story : Romance of the Working Woman in Japanese Television Dramas / Alisa Freedman

The World Too Much with Us in Japanese Travel Television / Kendall Heitzman

Part III. Videogames. Nuclear Discourse in Final Fantasy VII : Embodied Experience and Social Critique / Rachael Hutchinson

The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth : Post-Apocalyptic Posthumanity in Tokyo Jungle / Kathryn Hemmann

Part IV. Fan Media and Technology. Managing Manga Studies in the Convergent Classroom / Mark Mclelland

Purikura : Expressive Energy in Female Self-Photography / Laura Miller

Studio Ghibli Media Tourism / Craig Norris

Hatsune Miku : Virtual Idol, Media Platform, and Crowd-Sourced Celebrity / Ian Condry

Part V. Music. Electrifying the Japanese Teenager Across Generations : The Role of the Electric Guitar in Japan's Popular Culture / Michael Furmanovsky

The "Pop Pacific" : Japanese-American Sojourners and the Development of Japanese Popular Music / Jayson Makoto Chun

AKB Business : Idols and Affective Economics in Contemporary Japan / Patrick W. Galbraith

In Search of Japanoise : Globalizing Underground Music / David Novak

Korean Pop Music in Japan : Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Japan and Korea in the Popular Culture Realm / Eun-Young Jung

Part VI. Popular Cinema. The Prehistory of Soft Power : Godzilla, Cheese, and the American Consumption of Japan / William M. Tsutsui

The Rise of Japanese Horror Films : Yotsuya Ghost Story (Yotsuya Kaidari), Demonic Men, and Victimized Women / Kyoko Hirano

V-Cinema : How Home Video Revitalized Japanese Film and Mystified Film Historians / Tom Mes

Part VII. Anime. Apocalyptic Animation : In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Godzilla, and Baudrillard / Alan Cholodenko

Toy Stories : Robots and Magical Girls in Anime Marketing / Renato Rivera Rusca

Condensing the Media Mix : The Tatami Galaxy's Multiple Possible Worlds / Marc Steinberg

Part VIII. Manga. Gekiga, or Japanese Alternative Comics : The Mediascape of Japanese Counterculture / Shige (CJ) Suzuki

Sampling Girls' Culture : An Analysis of Shōjo Manga Magazines / Jennifer Prough

The Beautiful Men of the Inner Chamber : Gender-Bending, Boys' Love, and Other Shōjo Manga Tropes in Ōoku / Deborah Shamoon

Cyborg Empiricism : The Ghost Is Not in the Shell / Thomas Lamarre

Part IX. Popular Literature. Murakami Haruki's Transnational Avant-Pop Literature / Rebecca Suter

Thumb-Generation Literature : The Rise and Fall of Japanese Cellphone Novels / Alisa Freedman

Part X. Sites and Spectacles. Hanabi : The Cultural Significance of Fireworks in Japan / Damien Liu-Brennan

Kamishibai : The Fantasy Space of the Urban Street Corner / Sharalyn Orbaugh

Shibuya : Reflective Identity in Transforming Urban Space / Izumi Kuroishi

Akihabara : Promoting and Policing "Otaku" in "Cool Japan" / Patrick W. Galbraith

Japan Lost and Found : Modern Ruins as Debris of the Economic Miracle / Tong Lam

Part XI. Fashion. Cute Fashion : The Social Strategies and Aesthetics of Kawaii / Toby Slade

Made in Japan : A New Generation of Fashion Designers / Hiroshi Narumi

Clean-Cut : Men's Fashion Magazines, Male Aesthetic Ideals, and Social Affinity in Japan / Masafumi Monden

Part XII. Contemporary Art. Superflat Life / Tom Looser

Aida Makoto : Notes from an Apathetic Continent / Adrian Favell

Art from "What is Already There" on Islands in the Seto Inland Sea / James Jack.