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Japanese Popular Culture
This site provides brief information and selected links for anime (animated
films), automobile history, famous contemporary people, garden design,
Godzilla films, historical chronology, historical sites, kabuki, karakuri
automatons, kimono, kites, kutani pottery, ky?gen (comic drama), manga
(comic books), mingei (folk art), maps, museums, noh, paper folding, rural
life in Shiiba, kendo (sword fighting), sumo, sushi, Tokyo, Tsukiji fish
market, woodblock prints ( ukiyo-e ), urban life, zen meditation.
Introductory.
Dentsu Institute for Human Studies
http://www.dci.dentsu.co.jp/
Provides information on different Japanese media ranging from video and
arcade games to TV and radio and from magazines to computers. Includes
the outline of the White Paper on Information Media (Joho media hakusho )
which summarizes the information for publishing, broadcasting, films, music
and so on for a given year. In English and Japanese, though the English
pages are less developed.
Japanese Visual Culture
This web site was developed by William Gardner and his students for a
course taught at Middlebury. Despite restricted access to the image
galleries, this site provides valuable bibliographic information and web
links. The major categories are Edo Visual Culture, Postwar Art, Film, and
Anime. Bibliographies and student papers are posted for each.
ConsumAsiaN - The Consumption in Asia Network
The ConsumAsiaN network is a forum for scholars around the world
working with various aspects of consumption and consumerism in their
broadest senses. The network is mainly funded by the Department of
Japanese Studies at The University of Hong Kong, but also receives
funding from various separate research grants.
Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association
homepage
http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/
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Sponsored by H-Net, the American Culture and the Popular Culture
Association, this page has useful links to scholarly and popular sites,
although it is very America-centric.
k.i.s.s. of the panopticon mirror site
http://mirror.tranquileye.com/panop/home.htm
Created by Dougie Bicket of the University of Washington's School of
Communications, k.i.s.s. (Keep It Simple Stupid) of the panopticon is
designed to provide a quick and easy guide to “cultural/critical theory and
its relationship with communications and new media, including the
Internet.” This site's goal is to present these theories in a straightforward
and intelligible manner. The core of the site is a comprehensive index of
over 130 entries on the central figures and ideas of postmodernism. Users
new to these writings will want to first review the core concepts section,
while students who wish to give their papers a postmodern flavor can
consult the bibliography for some good leads. Other sections under
development include an online quiz and a “beyond” section, which will
contain links, papers, and other resources. The main site is often offline,
but a user has created a mirror site. It might possibly be an older version,
but it is always accessible.
Japan Related Web Links: Search Engines
http://www.atrium.com/cgi-bin/banner/display.pl?h=search
This is a comprehensive index for searching, submitting, and navigating
using Japanese search engines. Includes search engines which allow you
to submit queries in either English and Japanese. Some search engines
search only sites they have indexed, some search other search engines,
and some search the web and create a database of WWW content
Guides to the Study of Popular Culture - Periodical Indexe
Janaru indekkusu
Provides 600,000 bibliographic references to articles from 155 Japanese general
interest monthly and weekly magazines from 1981 to the present. Covered
subject areas include family life and sports, society, politics and law, economics,
industry and labor, information and computers, language and education, the arts,
philosophy, religion, psychology and history, science and technology.
The database may be searched by type of news or issue, keyword, author, or
journal name.ﾊ Searches can be limited to the latest year, three, five, ten, or
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fifteen years or from 1981 to the present.ﾊ It can also be used as a current
awareness tool; articles published in the last week can be searched by subject
field.
Requires Japanese software for searching.
Oya Soichi bunko zasshi kiji sakuin sōmokuroku: Jinmei
hen; kenmei hen.
Oya Sōichi Bunko. Tōkyō: Kinokunia shoten, 1985. 13 vols.
EA Ref: 016.059956 O98, O97, 1985; (Jinmei hen)
EA Ref: 016.059956 O98, O98, 1985 (Kenmei hen)
EA Ref: 016.059956 O98, O97, 1997 (1988-1995)
The index to the premier collection of popular magazines. The 1985 edition
indexes 48,180 people and 395,654 events published in 240,000 journals from
the Meiji era to the end of 1984. There is a 50,000 word index to the subject
index.
Sogoshi kiji sakuin 87/94 = Japanese General-interestmagazines Index 1987-1994.
87/94, 3v.
Tōkyō: Nichigai Associates, 1995.
EA Ref 016.059956 S682 1995
Vol.1 Jinbutsu hen = Personal Names Index
Vol.2 Kigyō, dantai hen = Organization-names Index
Vol.3 Nyūsu, jiken hen = News & Topics
Pop Culture
Guides to the Study of Popular Culture - Handbooks and
Dictionaries
Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture
John Whittier Treat, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
PL: 952.04 C761, 1996
Encyclopedia of contemporary Japanese culture
Edited by Sandra Buckley.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Perkins Ref: 952.0403 E56, 2002
Entries cover literature, film, architecture, food, health, politics, economics,
religion and technology, and range from shorter definitions, histories or
biographies to longer essays
treating major issues and ideas in depth.
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Entries are signed. A-Z format. Includes cross references and suggestions for
further reading.
Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture
R. Powers and H. Kato, ed. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1989
PL: 952.048 H236, 1989
Japan pop! : inside the world of Japanese popular culture
Timothy J. Craig, editor.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2000.
PL: 952.04 J35, 2000
Taishū bunka jiten = Encyclopedia of popular culture
Ishikawa Hiroyoshi ... [et al.], eds.
Tōkyō : Kōbundō, Heisei 3 [1991]
EA Ref: 306.4095203 T135 1991
Written by 300 specialists from a variety of fields, the dictionary aims at a broad
understanding of mass (popular) culture; it aims to make it as concrete as
possible, by looking at events, things, people and situations in the 19th and 20th
centuries. Although it
focuses on Japan, it is aware of the connections to
Western and Asian popular culture. Covers folk culture and customs, popular
music, movies, performing arts, games, comics, fashion, crimes, consumer life
etc. Each entry is signed and has suggestions for further reading and a link to a
table at the end of the volume. Includes a bibliography of
8500 titles
related to popular culture. With subject and personal names indexes in Japanese
and foreign languages. Well illustrated.
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Subject Guides
Pop Culture Anime and Manga - Scholarship on Anime Tools
Animation in Asia and the Pacific.
Edited by John A. Lent.
Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2001.
Lilly: 791.433 A598, 2001
The Anime Companion
Poitras, Gilles. The anime companion: what's
Japanese in Japanese
animation?
Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, 1999.
Lilly: 791.433 P757 A598 1999
An encyclopedic guide to Japanese culture, specifically designed to
provide
background information to identify cultural elements commonly
found in
anime. The author has since produced an online supplement .
Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: experiencing
contemporary Japanese animation.
Napier, Susan Jolliffe.
New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Lilly 791.433 N212, A598, 2000
Anime Interviews: the first five years of Animerica, Anime &
Manga monthly: (1992-97)
Ledoux, Trish.
San Francisco, Calif. : Cadence Books, 1997.
Lilly: 791.4330952 A598, 1997
The Anime! Movie Guide
McCarthy, Helen.
Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1997.
Lilly: 791.433 M123 A598 1997
A thorough catalog of anime films and OAVs from 1983-1996 that includes
brief synopses and ratings.
Mangaka, Anime sakka jinmei jiten
Nichigai Asoshietsu Henshubu hen.
Tokyo : Nichigai Asoshietsu : hatsubai Kinokuniya Shoten, 1997.
EA Ref: 741.5092 M277 1997
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Samurai from outer space: understanding Japanese
animation.
Levi, Antonia, 1947.
Chicago: Open Court, c1996.
Lilly: 791.433 L664, S193, 1996
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Frederik L. Schodt's HomePage
http://www.jai2.com/Welcome.htm
Homepage of the author of several books on manga; includes descriptions and
tables of contents from his books and a good set of manga links.
Matt-Thorn.com
http://matt-thorn.com/
Formerly the Shoujo manga page. Created by a cultural anthropologist in the
Department of Cartoon & Comic Art, Kyoto Seika University
Tezuka Osamu World
http://www.tezuka.co.jp/index.html
Official web page. Includes links to Tezuka Osamu museum, fan club, and
information on the man himself.
Dragonball Archives (Japanese)
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/hitoko/dbhon/book1.htm
Mangajin
http://www.mangajin.com/index2.htm
Homepage of the Mangajin magazine in the United States. Includes a sample
issue, a new e-zine, and ordering information.
Ohio State's manga page
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/manga/default.html
Provides an index to the manga titles held at Ohio State (over 1300) and a list of
Japanese Manga Libraries and Museums
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/manga/muslib.html
Rei's anime and manga page
http://www.mit.edu/people/rei/Anime.html
I usually avoid student pages but this one has good articles and other useful
information.
Online stores
Manga.com
US
Manga Corps