The Monocle Book of Japan

The Monocle Book of Japan

Author: Tyler Brûlé

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500971079

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The Monocle team celebrates the endlessly fascinating and culturally rich country of Japan.


Information Media Trends in Japan 2014

Information Media Trends in Japan 2014

Author: Dentsu Innovation Institute

Publisher: ダイヤモンド社

Published: 2014-09-26

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13:

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This is a digest version in English of the “Research for the Information and Media Society of Japan.” The original Japanese edition has diverse data and extensive analysis on media industries. And it has been published for more than 20 years. The booklet has been a must read for those in the media, advertising, the Internet and contents businesses and has earned the confidence of the industry. It has become a valuable data book as it contains the data on comics and animation genre, which are of high interest both at home and overseas. The Japanese edition compiles a wide range of fundamental data which is indispensable for industry analysis and has commentaries on the media industry by the Dentsu Innovation Institute. The English edition is reorganized from the Japanese edition and is released for the first time as an e-book. The book is made up of commentaries and data. The commentaries summarize Japan’s information media industry. The data part is divided into 17 fields. The statistical data in each field—newspapers, publishing, comics, broadcasting, telecommunications, films, animation, music, games and e-commerce among others—are introduced including 70 graphic charts. Dentsu Innovation Institute, the editor of the e-book, is a think-tank department of Japan’s largest advertising company, Dentsu Inc. Dentsu Innovation Institute mainly focuses on the media research. The themes are environmental changes of the media and audience as well as future outlook. It develops knowledge from a unique vantage point using its own methods, offering information and conducting advisory and consulting services to clients involved in the media industry.


Japan Business

Japan Business

Author: Christine Genzberger

Publisher: World Trade Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780963186423

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An enclyclopedic view of doing business with Japan. Contains the how-to, where-to and who-with information needed to operate internationally.


Age of Shōjo

Age of Shōjo

Author: Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1438473923

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Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Cloaking their ideas in the pages of girls' magazines, writers could effectively express their desires for freedom from and resistance against oppressive cultural conventions, and their shōjo characters' "immature" qualities and social marginality gave them the power to express their thoughts without worrying about the reaction of authorities. Dollase details the transformation of Japanese girls' fiction from the 1900s to the 1980s by discussing the adaptation of Western stories, including Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, in the Meiji period; the emergence of young female writers in the 1910s and the flourishing girls' fiction era of the 1920s and 1930s; the changes wrought by state interference during the war; and the new era of empowered postwar fiction. The book highlights seminal author Yoshiya Nobuko's dreamy fantasies and Kitagawa Chiyo's social realism, Morita Tama's autobiographical feminism, the contributions of Nobel Prize–winning author Kawabata Yasunari, and the humorous modern fiction of Himuro Saeko and Tanabe Seiko. Using girls' perspectives, these authors addressed social topics such as education, same-sex love, feminism, and socialism. The age of shōjo, which began at the turn of the twentieth century, continues to nurture new generations of writers and entice audiences beyond age, gender, and nationality.