Japan Forum, Volume 32, Issue 1 (2020)

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Visual Culture in Japan

Special Issue Articles

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Introduction to special issue on visual culture
Bill Mihalopoulos
Pages: 3-5
Published online: 16 Apr 2020
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On countryside roads to national identity: Japanese morning drama series (asadora) and contents tourism
Elisabeth Scherer & Timo Thelen
Pages: 6-29
Published online: 20 Dec 2017
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Processional prints of the Kanda festival: popular visual culture and neighborhood identity
Ezra Toback
Pages: 30-55
Published online: 03 Apr 2018
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Nakahira Takuma's ‘Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary?’ (1973) and the quest for ‘true’ photographic realism in post-war Japan
Philip Charrier
Pages: 56-82
Published online: 14 Sep 2017
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The never-ending Pacific War: Imamura Shōhei and the ruse of memory
Bill Mihalopoulos
Pages: 83-101
Published online: 11 Apr 2018
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Involution: a perspective for understanding Japanese animation's domestic business in a global context
Ryotaro Mihara
Pages: 102-125
Published online: 08 Mar 2018
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Nightclubs, dancing, and reforms to Japan’s sex-industry laws (fueihō): lessons in shifting global politico-economic trends from the ‘no dancing’ country
Ryan Hartley
Pages: 126-155
Published online: 03 Jan 2019
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