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AltJapan: The Manga Gap - 3 views

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  • In short, the chances to get to know lesser-known manga are disappearing."But the big issue (and one left unexplored by Akamatsu) is: do fans WANT to get to know lesser-known manga in the first place? The interesting thing is how this dovetails with comments by Toshio Okada and other old-schoolers, who  -- despite increasingly sounding like your granddad telling you he had to walk uphill both ways to school -- complain of younger fans' tendency to "ghettoize" themselves into tiny bubble-like individual worlds rather than seeking out new experiences. Which leads to the real questions: if tastes have truly changed this significantly, how much does complaining about it really help? And what are Japanese creators and media outlets going to change to address the situation?
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PostGender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture - 3 views

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Japan's manga artists angry over sex and violence ban - Telegraph - 3 views

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  • Nele Noppe on 19 Mar 10
     
    The Tokyo Assembly has just voted to carry over deliberation on the proposed law to the June session. Apparently the free speech concerns are being taken seriously. http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20100319_355763.html
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Anime Class Blog - 3 views

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  • Ariane Beldi on 06 Jun 10
     
    This is the blog of the Workers' Educational Association anime evening class. The first class is currently running in Central London from Tuesday 27 October to Tuesday 15 December 2009. Helen McCarthy is leading the class and will moderate the blog. The weekly handouts with notes, reading lists, viewing lists and links will be posted here on their own pages - see the right hand sidebar. There is also an expanded reading list - class members are welcome to add their own suggestions for further reading about anime, either on the reading list page or in their own posts.
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Manga in/as Essay: Call for Submissions - 3 views

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  • Ariane Beldi on 26 Jul 10
     
    Exploring the expressive potentials of manga, our first manga competition seeks original image sequences that play with the themes and ideas traditionally associated with the classical 'ox-herding' sequence. Creative and innovative manga will be rewarded with publication and prizes! Deadline: 31 October 2010
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Promoting 'Cool Japan' | The Japan Times Online - 3 views

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  • Eight years have passed since American journalist Douglas McGray first coined the phrase, but now the Japanese government is getting behind "Cool Japan" in a big way. A new Creative Industries Promotion Office was established in June within the Manufacturing Industries Bureau of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to coordinate the promotion of "cultural industries" by various arms of government such as the Agency for Cultural Affairs, METI, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • Mr. Kondo believes that the free market was originally a tool for increased prosperity and a richer nonmaterial life, but that it somehow became an end in itself. A task for the 21st century is to move toward a richer spiritual life, and he thinks Japan is in a unique position for that as a non-Western economic power. While a bureaucratic-led push for creativity has its problems, any soft power contribution Japan can make to the world will surely be welcomed, especially if it can also stimulate renewed self-confidence and vitality within Japan itself.
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Cleansing history, cleansing Japan: Kobayashi Yoshinori's Analects of War and Japan's r... - 2 views

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Movie Review - Astro Boy - There You Go, Rocket High Through the Sky, Trying to Accept ... - 2 views

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      Ariane Beldi on 23 Oct 09
       
      Unfortunately, this seems to be a perpetual flaw of American adapatation of Japanese manga/animes...
  • “Astro Boy” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). A few of the small children in the theater in which I saw the movie occasionally screamed, but it’s unclear if they were frightened, bored or hungry.
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Twins, 20, jailed for child porn manga - 2 views

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  • Ariane Beldi on 23 Oct 09
     
    NEW GLASGOW - Twin brothers were sentenced in provincial court Wednesday to three months in jail for possessing child pornography.
  • Ariane Beldi on 23 Oct 09
     
    This is an interesting issue that concerns particularly anime and manga, although not only, because pornography and child pornography constitute such a high percentage of the total production (apprently, close to 50%). Here, we have a typical case where something legal in one country is illegal in many others. Moreover, there is also the issue of freedom of expression, since drawing (like writing, actually) are only expression of fantasies, but not necessarily their implementations, unless the it is about a story that actually took place. Does that mean one should forbid such fantasies to be expressed, whether from a commercial point of view or from an artistic perspective? Of course, many will state firmly that such fantasies can never become art, but that doesn't settle the debate once and for all, in my opinion. On the contrary, I think it remains quite an open-ended issue and one should keep an eye out for its development, as pornography in all its forms and expressions are often used as pretext to resteain freedom of speech and artistic expressions that don't fit a specific politically correct model.
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