The Branding Potential And Japanese Popular Culture Overseas

Rising Sun, Iron Cross – Military Germany in Japanese Popular Culture

Diverse depictions of the WWII German army exist in Japanese popular culture. This essay will explore the origins of the Japanese fandom devoted to German military technology and also the way that authors have (re)produced stereotypes related to German culture and traditions in their portrayals of wartime Germany. Finally, using examples by authors Tezuka Osamu and Aramaki Yoshio, this essay wi...

Christianity and Popular Culture

the internet, religion, and popular culture

this paper tries to study the complex relationship between religion, popular culture and the internet. the internet not only prepares some facilities for religion, but also it’s a site for a new interaction between religion and popular culture. first, the paper points out five features of the internet which help to extend and promote the religious communication in the cyberspace: 1. deterritori...

Panel 7: Semi-Imaginary Places and the Realities of Home in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University “Translating Yokohama: Self-Representation in Early Meiji Translations of Jules Verne” Abstract: In 1878, Kawashima Chūnosuke began publishing Shinsetsu: Hachi-jū nikkan sekai isshu, a translation of Jules Verne’s 1873 novel Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours. This book was important for several reasons. First, it was first translation of a Frenc...

Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Popular Culture Experiments in Subjectivity

This paper examines two aspects of subjectivity-sexuality and singularity-that are considered fundamental to a modernist notion of the person. These aspects of subjectivity are under siege as new technologies of reproduction challenge our understanding of sexed bodies and as, simultaneously, a postmodern world-view brings forward the multiplicity of sexual subject positions and embodied hybridi...