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Japanese Role-playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality
in the JRPG examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational
effects of the genre, addressing significant formal elements as
well as narrative themes, character construction, and player
involvement. Contributors from Japan, Europe, North America, and
Australia employ a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze
popular game series and individual titles, introducing an
English-speaking audience to Japanese video game scholarship while
also extending postcolonial and philosophical readings to the
Japanese game text. In a three-pronged approach, the collection
uses these analyses to look at genre, representation, and
liminality, engaging with a multitude of concepts including
stereotypes, intersectionality, and the political and social
effects of JRPGs on players and industry conventions. Broadly, this
collection considers JRPGs as networked systems, including evolved
iterations of MMORPGs and card collecting "social games" for mobile
devices. Scholars of media studies, game studies, Asian studies,
and Japanese culture will find this book particularly useful.
Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the
analysis of social and economic systems. It provides a bottom-up
experimental method to be applied to social sciences such as
economics, management, sociology and politics as well as some
engineering fields dealing with social activities. This book
includes selected papers presented at the Eighth International
Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex
Systems held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2013. At the workshop, 23 reviewed
full papers were presented and of those, 13 were selected to be
included in this volume.
Economics went through great development in the 20th century. This
development, which was based mainly on mathematical methods, is not
an appropriate method of analyzing markets that change every hour
and every day. In a stock market, prices constantly change
depending on speculation. U-Mart, a manmade market, has been
proposed in order to study such instantly moving markets. Although
the U-Mart system is internationally acclaimed for being at the
forefront of market research, its use is by no means limited to a
small number of researchers on the fringe. The whole system,
including its source code, is open and is distributed without
charge, testifying to a philosophy of creating and providing a
common test bed for research into financial markets.
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