Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture - From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters (Hardcover)

In a world of globalised media, Japanese popular culture has become a signifi cant fountainhead for images, narrative, artefacts, and identity. From Pikachu, to instantly identifi able manga memes, to the darkness of adult anime, and the hyper- consumerism of product tie- ins, Japan has bequeathed to a globalised world a rich variety of ways to imagine, communicate, and interrogate tradition and change, the self, and the technological future. Within these foci, questions of law have often not been far from the surface: the crime and justice of Astro Boy; the property and contract of Pokemon; the ecological justice of Nausicaa; Shinto's focus on order and balance; and the anxieties of origins in J- horror. This volume brings together a range of global scholars to refl ect on and critically engage with the place of law and justice in Japan's popular cultural legacy. It explores not only the global impact of this legacy, but what the images, games, narratives, and artefacts that comprise it reveal about law, humanity, justice, and authority in the twenty-first century.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Ashley Pearson • Thomas Giddens • Kieran Tranter
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-30026-2
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Law & society Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN:	1-138-30026-8
Barcode:	9781138300262

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