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The End of Cool Japan - Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture (Paperback)
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The End of Cool Japan - Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
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Today's convergent media environment offers unprecedented
opportunities for sourcing and disseminating previously obscure
popular culture material from Japan. However, this presents
concerns regarding copyright, ratings and exposure to potentially
illegal content which are serious problems for those teaching and
researching about Japan. Despite young people's enthusiasm for
Japanese popular culture, these concerns spark debate about whether
it can be judged harmful for youth audiences and could therefore
herald the end of 'cool Japan'. This collection brings together
Japan specialists in order to identify key challenges in using
Japanese popular culture materials in research and teaching. It
addresses issues such as the availability of unofficially
translated and distributed Japanese material; the emphasis on
adult-themes, violence, sexual scenes and under-age characters; and
the discrepancies in legislation and ratings systems across the
world. Considering how these issues affect researchers, teachers,
students and fans in the US, Canada, Australia, China, Japan and
elsewhere in Asia, the contributors discuss the different ways in
which academic and fan practices are challenged by local
regulations. Illustrating from personal experience the sometimes
fraught nature of teaching about 'cool Japan', they suggest ways in
which Japanese Studies as a discipline needs to develop clearer
guidelines for teaching and research, especially for new scholars
entering the field. As the first collection to identify some of the
real problems faced by teachers and researchers of Japanese popular
culture as well as the students over whom they have a duty of care,
this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of
Japanese Studies and Cultural Studies.
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