Abstract
Introduction, John W. Treat Murakami Haruki's 1980s, Aoki Tamotsu body raiders - performative identity in Japanese popular culture, Sandra Buckley imaginings in the Empires of the Sun - Japanese mass culture in Asia, Leo Ching Finally, I reach to Africa - Ryuichi Sakamoto sound(ing) Japan(ese), Brian Currid popular culture from Japan - karaoke in Asia, Kawasaki Ken'ichi in pursuit of perfection - the transportation of signs and discourse of cars in two advertising campaigns, Brian Moeran the making of romance fiction in Japan, Chieko Mulhern panic sites - the Japanese imagination of disaster from Godzilla to Akira, Susan J. Napier Japanese daytime television, popular culture and ideology, Andrew Painter race and reflexivity - the black other in contemporary Japanese mass culture, John Russell fashion trends, Japonisme and postmodernism, or what is so Japanese about 'commes des garcons?', Lise Skov mournful tears and sake - the postwar myth of Misora Hibari, Alan Tansman Yoshimoto Banana writes home - the Shojo in Japanese popular culture, John Whittier Treat.
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