Anne M Allison

Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan

Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys And the Global Imagination

Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys And the Global Imagination

Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan

Essentials of Advertising Strategy

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Sailor Mo

…broadcast in syndication and did not do well in DVD sales in the United Kingdom.[91]Anne Allison attributes the lack of popularity in the United States primarily to poor marketing (in the United States, the series was initially broadcast at times which did not suit the target audience - week...

Japan: The Precarious Future (Possible Futures)

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third larges...

Japan: The Precarious Future (Possible Futures)

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third larges...

Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese cool” is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters...

Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon

Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including com...

Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan

This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes—or obentos—that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison brin...

Precarious Japan (Chronicles of the New World Encounter)

In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic ...

Fundamentals of Chemistry

This is an innovative textbook that meets the needs of a one-semester honors-level course in general chemistry. Easy to digest in one semester, this concise, well-structured text helps students develop key skills. It adopts a methodology of rigor and problem solving, and underscores the interdiscipl...