Popular Culture and Globalisation in Japan provides exciting and fascinating insights into Japanese popular culture. It explores the Japaneseness of Japanese popular culture by focusing on the intersection of globalization and popular cultural products associated with Japan. The editors argue that there are many insides and outsides, which inform the production and consumption of Japanese popular culture, thus that the Japan in Japanese popular culture is always dislocated, contaminated and crisscrossed.

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