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- The Economic Crisis in Japan: The Loss of Grand Narrative
- From Plastic Toys to Plastic Boys: The Rise of K-Pop and K-Cool
- Loose Socks as Molotov Cocktails: Finding the Rebellion in Japanese Teen Girl Subcultures
- Cute Gets Creepy: Examining the Consequences of Cute Culture
- Ura-Hara Street Clothing: The Rise of the Japanese Fashion Otaku
- Lost Girls, Lovely Boys: Homosexual Romance in Shojou Manga and Anime
- Meme Machine: A Case for 4channers as the Ultimate Database Animals
- The Otaku Database: The Movement Away From the Grand Narrative?
- No Music, No Message, No Meaning: Japanoise
- Blood-Spattered Innocents: The Cachet of the ‘Grotesque Cute’
- The Cultural Cache of Kanji: Characters, Cultures, and Communication
- The Japanese Bestiary of “Cool”
- Of Divine and Digital Origin: Mythology in Japanese Video Games
- J-Pop: It’s Not About the Music
- Triumph of the School Girl
- The Virtual Idol: The Vocaloid
- Coming to America: J-Horror
- Kaitenzushi: Sushi makes the rounds from Japan to America to Japan again
- A Lonely Lockdown: The Hikikomori Phenomenon
- Standing Out and Fitting In: Street Fashion and the Search for Identity and Power in Post Bubble Japan
- Game Over? The End of Japanese Dominance in the American Console Gaming Market
- When the Characteristicless Becomes Real: The Western Response to Visual Kei
- Manga and the United States: New Life to Comics
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