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How to reach Japan by subway : America's fascination with Japanese culture, 1945-1965
\"A study of the shibui phenomenon, in which American middle-class consumers embraced Japanese culture as familiar, yet exotic, in the two decades following the end of World War II\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Traveling texts and the work of afro- japanese cultural production
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders.
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Cross-Cultural Influences Between Japanese and American Pop Cultures
This collection features examinations of popular culture, including manga, music, film, cosplay, and literature, among other topics. Using interdisciplinary sources and analyses, this collection adds to the global discussion and relevancy of Japanese popular culture. This collection serves to highlight the work of multidisciplinary scholars who offer fresh perspectives of ongoing cross-cultural and cyclical influences that are commonly found between the US and Japan. Notably, this collection considers the relationships that have influenced Japanese popular culture, and how this has, in turn, influenced the Western world.
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Consuming Japan : popular culture and the globalizing of 1980s America
\"...a cultural, economic, and intellectual history of U.S.-Japan relations from roughly the mid-1970s to the early 1990s...\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Primitive selves
This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. Atkins challenges the prevailing view that imperial Japan demonstrated contempt for Koreans through suppression of Korean culture. In his analysis, the Japanese preoccupation with Koreana provided the empire with a poignant vision of its own past, now lost--including communal living and social solidarity--which then allowed Japanese to grieve for their former selves. At the same time, the specific objects of Japan's gaze--folk theater, dances, shamanism, music, and material heritage--became emblems of national identity in postcolonial Korea.
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Asian Americans in New England (review)
Chinese students in the missionary school or Yale University in the first half of the nineteenth century; Japanese acrobats in the mid-nineteenth century; creation of the Department of Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda's lecture tour in 1893 and its lasting influence; history of the New WORLD theater archival collections; and Southeast Asian immigrant communities.
Journal Article
Learning Japanese, Once About Resumes, Is Now About Cool; Business Majors of '80s Yield To Kids Smitten by Anime; Up at 4 a.m. for Cartoons
Now, the typical Japanese-language student is a Japan-culture fanatic like 19-year-old Rachel Maurer, a UGA undergrad with maroon hair and skull earrings who also goes by the Japanese name Reiko. Ms. Maurer, who grew up in Daytona, Fla., studies the language to further explore the Japanese rock bands she's crazy about: Pierrot, Dir en grey and DuelJewel, for which she runs an English-language fan Web site. Ms. Maurer likes the Japanese \"visual\" bands, which feature male musicians with wild, colorful hairdos, heavy makeup and a mysterious, feminine air. She chose UGA for its Japanese program, although she isn't sure how she will use the language in the future. These days, the serious business types aren't focusing on Japanese; they're taking Chinese instead. These are people like Patrick Henry, 21, a UGA undergrad from Norcross, Ga., who eventually hopes to get an MBA and work for \"a corporate conglomerate.\" Mr. Henry, who has just completed a year of Mandarin Chinese classes, leaves for Taiwan at the end of August for a year of intensive language study. While he's hedging his bets by taking German and Japanese, too, he feels that China is the next big thing. \"That's where the money's going to be,\" he says. At UGA, about half the 100 Japanese-language students surveyed cite Japanese pop culture -- including animation, comics, pop songs and video games -- as their top reason for studying the language, according to Natsuki Fukunaga, who teaches Japanese at the school. Impressed by her students' interest in Japanese pop culture, she wrote her master's thesis detailing the phenomenon. \"I was excited to see these kids really picking up this authentic Japanese culture,\" she says.
Newspaper Article