… politeness strategies employed by healthcare professionals, using data from a Japanese
manga(comic book) series entitled “Otanko nāsu”(Stupid Nurse). This manga series is based …

… healthcare comic books, called manga in Japanese, because gaining data from real healthcare
settings … Japanese healthcare manga, which have been frequently written or supervised …

… This paper examines the ways in which healthcare … are from healthcare discourses at difficult
times found in the manga series … healthcare settings: Analysis of manga discourse between …

… as expressed in manga discourse. The data were collected from the Japanese manga series
… However, future studies drawing on actual data from real healthcare settings are necessary …

… Japan and the genre of healthcare comic books, or Iryo Manga, is well established… healthcare
professionals (Yomiuri shimbun, 2007), or based on factual accounts of healthcare settings…

… , manga still commands over a third of the publishing output. The volume of manga works that
… students of Japanese studies, discourse analysts, educators, parents, and manga readers. …

… constituency, Kariya established discourse within manga as a pathway to … health outcomes
for residents living near the Fukushima nuclear facility. Nosebleeds suffered by the manga’s …

… Due to strict privacy laws in Japan, taping or recording interactions in confidential settings
… works is that the manga authors of the series had worked in the healthcare environment and …

… Similar to the ways in which manga have addressed the gender … that manga for both men
and women presented the roles of women in a workplace setting within a traditional discourse, …

… discourse. After all, reference to society at large and a respective critical engagement are not
given the same importance in recent Japanese manga discourse … the health administration, …