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O Japão exibe uma cultura multifacetada, com tradições milenares. Embora tenha raízes na cultura chinesa, a distância geográfica permitiu ao Japão a construção de um modelo cultural diferenciado e cujas marcas persistem mesmo com a característica dinâmica do povo de adaptar-se à…

In my five years playing the shakuhachi (the traditional Japanese bamboo flute), I have noticed that with increasing frequency, people come up to me with new and interesting ways in which they associate the sound of the instrument. The traditional association—and the reason I wa…

Few science fiction or fantasy franchises have seen the popular reception that Dragon Ball and its sequels has had and yet, its appearance in academic discourse has been left wanting. This dissertation attempts an initial in-depth analysis of the story of Dragon Ball and its seq…

Since 1945, three narratives have dominated Japan’s postwar memory landscape: the heroic narrative, the victim narrative, and the perpetrator narrative. There are few places in Japanese public discourse demonstrating an engagement with the gray areas between the narratives. What…

Over the past few decades, scholars of fan studies have been engaged with questions of capital and consumerism in fandom— with writers such as Henry Jenkins and his canonical Textual Poachers investigating the ways in which fan-production can challenge or critique existing capit…