Post Bubble Culture

Research on Contemporary Japan

  • Gross National Cool
    • Art & Fashion
    • Cute Aesthetics
    • Film & TV
    • Food
    • Gaming
    • Manga & Anime
    • Music
    • Shojo/Girls
    • Social Issues
  • Japanese Domestic Issues
  • Contributor Bios
  • Editorial Staff
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GNC Postings

  • 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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