Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan : Historical Perspectives and New Horizons

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Foreword: Otaku Culture as 'Conversion Literature' Otsuka Eiji (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan) Introduction: 'Otaku Research' Past, Present and Future Patrick W. Galbraith (Duke University, USA) Thiam Huat Kam (Rutgers University, USA) and Bjoern-Ole Kamm (Heidelberg University, Germany) Section 1: The 1980s 1. 'Otaku' Research and Anxiety About Failed Men Patrick W. Galbraith 2. The Birth of 'Otaku:' Centring on Discourse Dynamics in Manga Burikko Yamanaka Tomomi (Yokohama National University, Japan) 3. Opening the Black Box of the 1989 Otaku Discourse Bjoern-Ole Kamm Section 2: The 1990s 4. Traversing Otaku Fantasy: Representation of the Otaku Subject, Gaze, and Fantasy in Otaku no Video Shen Lien Fan (University of Utah, USA) 5. Introduction to Otaku Studies Okada Toshio (Osaka University of Arts, Japan) Section 3: The 2000s 6. The Construction of Discourses on Otaku: The History of Subcultures from 1983 to 2005 Aida Miho (Hiroshima City University, Japan) 7. Train Man and the Gender Politics of Japanese 'Otaku' Culture: The Rise of New Media, Nerd Heroes and Consumer Communities Alisa Freedman (University of Oregon, USA) 8. The Transformation and the Diffusion of 'Otaku' Stereotypes and the Establishment of 'Akihabara' as a Place Brand Kikuchi Satoru (Shinshu Unviersity, Japan) 9. The Transition of Otaku and Otaku Okada Toshio 10. 'Otaku' as Label: Concerns over Productive Capacities in Contemporary Capitalist Japan Thiam Huat Kam Index