In this welcome brand new fifth edition of the bestselling textbook Understanding Japanese
Society, Joy Hendry takes the reader into the heart of Japanese life. Providing a clear and …

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Using the framework of Edward Said's Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock
and pop artists—particularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990s …

NHK's morning drama (asadora) has been an important institution on Japanese television
since the 1960s and is also known as 'national drama'. This article discusses this media …

From the late 1980s onward, Japanese animation (anime) has increasingly been consumed
as a 'global'product, with iconic films such as Akira and Ghost in the Shell achieving cult-like …

Japan's road to war in China in the 1930s–1940s is well known, as are the legacies of that
conflict in the diplomatic disputes, territorial rows, and educational policy battles between …

In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular
music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional …

National identity in Japan has been a strong foundation for its culture and traditional
underpinnings at first glance (Gottlieb, 2007), yet this ignores the diversity of identity and …

Lennon and McCartney: Painting with Sound explores the work of two of the most influential
composers of the twentieth century. Five decades after the breakup of the Beatles, the music …

Within the academic discipline of Popular Music Studies, Beatles scholarship has always
played a major role, due chiefly to the cultural and musical preeminence of the “Fab Four” …