Japan pop!

• 1
• Introduction

• I
• Popular Music

• 2
• Can Japanese Sing the Blues? "Japanese Jazz" and the Problem of Authenticity

• 3
• The Marketing of Tears: Consuming Emotions in Japanese Popular Song

• 4
• Open Your File, Open Your Mind: Women, English, and Changing Roles and Voices in Japanese Pop Music

• 5
• A Karaoke Perspective on International Relations

• II
• Comics & Animation

• 6
• Japanese Comic Books and Religion-Osamu Tezuka's Story of the Buddha

• 7
• The Romantic, Passionate Japanese in Anime: A Look at the Hidden Japanese Soul

• 8
• Hadashi no Gen ("Barefoot Gen"), Vol. 8, pp 17-31

• 9
• Gender Roles and Girls' Comics in Japan: The Girls and Guys of Yukan Club

• 10
• From Sazae-san to Crayon Shin-chan: Family Anime, Social Change, and Nostalgia in Japan

• III
• Television & Film

• 11
• New Role Models for Men and Women? Gender in Japanese TV Dramas

• 12
• A New Kind of Royalty: The Imperial Family and the Media in Postwar Japan

• 13
• Into the Heartland with Tora-san

• IV
• Japanese Popular Culture Abroad

• 14
• Sailor Moon: Japanese Superheroes for Global Girls

• 15
• Beauty Fighter "Sailor Chemist,"

• 16
• Doraemon Goes Abroad

• 17
• Pop Idols and the Asian Identity