Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism – Introduction

Rising Sun, Iron Cross – Military Germany in Japanese Popular Culture

Diverse depictions of the WWII German army exist in Japanese popular culture. This essay will explore the origins of the Japanese fandom devoted to German military technology and also the way that authors have (re)produced stereotypes related to German culture and traditions in their portrayals of wartime Germany. Finally, using examples by authors Tezuka Osamu and Aramaki Yoshio, this essay wi...

Christianity and Popular Culture

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...

Panel 7: Semi-Imaginary Places and the Realities of Home in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University “Translating Yokohama: Self-Representation in Early Meiji Translations of Jules Verne” Abstract: In 1878, Kawashima Chūnosuke began publishing Shinsetsu: Hachi-jū nikkan sekai isshu, a translation of Jules Verne’s 1873 novel Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours. This book was important for several reasons. First, it was first translation of a Frenc...

Tourism , Culture and Sustainable Development

This study has been carried out as a part of the programme " Culture, tourism and development " of the Division of cultural policies and intercultural dialogue, Section culture and development by Pr Mike Robinson and Dr David Picard. The views expressed by the author, the selection of facts presented and the opinions stated with regard to the facts are the responsibility of the author and do no...