Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction : negotiating "cool Japan" in research and teaching / Mark McLelland -- 2. Death note, student crimes, and the power of universities in the global spread of manga / Alisa Freedman -- 3. Scholar girl meets manga maniac, media specialist, and cultural gatekeeper / Laura Miller -- 4. Must we burn eromanga? : on trying obscenity in the courtroom and the classroom / Kirsten Cather -- 5. Manga, anime and child pornography law in Canada / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- 6. The "Lolicon guy" : some observations on researching unpopular topics in Japan / Patrick W. Galbraith -- 7. All seizures great and small : reading contentious images of minors in Japan and Australia / Adam Stapleton -- 8. "The love that dare not speak its name" : Chinese Danmei communities in the 2014 anti-porn campaign / Lin Yang and Yanrui Xu -- 9. Negotiating religious and fan identities : "boys love" and Fujoshi guilt / Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto -- 10. Is there a space for cool manga in Indonesia and the Philippines? : postcolonial discourses on transcultural manga / Kristine Michelle Santos and Febriani Sihombing.

Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents, breaks important new ground in this field. It examines gay life in the Japanese Pacific War, addresses transgender and lesbian as well as gay issues, examines the interface of queer society with the U.S. occupation and the international community, contests major interpretations of contemporary queer society, and introduces readers to the development of lesbian, transgender, and gay communities in postwar Japan. Including a wealth of images from the 'perverse press,' this book will appeal to students and general readers interested in modern and contemporary Japan and in gender studies and sexuality. Visit our website for sample chapters!.

This article investigates discourse about 'race' on the Japanese internet, particularly regarding resident Koreans and their relationship to the Japanese. One board relating to arguments about Korea on the notorious 2-channeru (Channel 2) bulletin board system, Japan's most visited internet site, is investigated, since it is one of the main public forums in which racial vilification takes place, perpetrated by both Japanese and Korean posters. Nakamura's contention that the internet is 'a place where race is created as an effect of the net's distinctive uses of language' is taken as a starting point to investigate the differences between Japanese and Anglophone notions of racial inclusion and exclusion, and to draw attention to the particularities of racial discourse that take place in this virtual Japanese space.

Based on extensive archival research, this is the first book in English to examine the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. The book examines a range of popular romantic and sexual practices and subcultures in relation to ideas of democracy brought and embodied by the Occupation, adding an important dimension to studies of Japan's sexual customs during the Occupation period.