Television, Japan, and Globalization offers thirteen essays that quickly bring readers in touch with the critical edge of current academic debates on its tripartite constituents: television, Japan, and globalization. The book's preface and its concise introductory essay “Why Japanese Television Now?” by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto powerfully guide readers in this venture. The two objectives of the book are set up here: to draw critical attention to Japanese television in U.S. academia and to problematize the “Japaneseness” of Japanese television. Sounds familiar? But the book is by no means a mere addendum that fills a gap in the U.S. scholarship, nor does it simply pass by the sign “Japan” on its way to global televisual cultures or global television studies. Rather, Yoshimoto questions the assumed status of globalization as “a new state of the world that makes obsolete an old paradigm of scholarship centered around nation-states as a fundamental unit of identity”...
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May 01 2011
Television, Japan, and Globalization
Television, Japan, and Globalization
. Edited by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto; Eva Tsai, and Jung-Bong Choi. Ann Arbor, MI
: The Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan
, 2010
. viii, 289 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper).
Junko Yamazaki
Junko Yamazaki
University of Chicago
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 585–587.
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Junko Yamazaki; Television, Japan, and Globalization. Journal of Asian Studies 1 May 2011; 70 (2): 585–587. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911811000556
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