Japan pop!

M. E. Sharpe

2000

ix, 348 p.

East Gate book

9780765605603

Can Japanese sing the blues? : "Japanese jazz" and the problem of authenticity / E. Taylor Atkins -- The marketing of tears : consuming emotions in Japanese popular song / Christine R. Yano -- Open your file, open your mind : women, English, and changing roles and voices in Japanese pop music / James Stanlaw -- A karaoke perspective on international relations / Hiro R. Shimatachi -- Japanese comic books and religion : Osamu Tezuka's story of the Buddha / Mark Wheeler MacWilliams -- The romantic, passionate Japanese in anime : a look at the hidden Japanese soul / Eri Izawa -- Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen) : volume 8, pages 17-31 / Keiji Nakazawa -- Gender roles and girls' comics in Japan : the girls and guys of Yūkan Club / Maia Tsurumi -- From Sazae-san to Crayon Shin-chan : family anime, social change, and nostalgia in Japan / William Lee -- New role models for men and women? : gender in Japanese TV dramas / Hilaria M. Gössmann -- A new kind of royalty : the Imperial family and the media in postwar Japan / Jayson Chun -- Into the heartland with Tora-san / Mark Schilling -- Sailor Moon : Japanese superheroes for global girls / Anne Allsion -- Beauty fighter "Sailor Chemist" / Yuka Kawada -- Doraemon goes abroad / Saya S. Shiraishi -- Pop idols and the Asian identity / Hiroshi Aoyagi

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