Overview

In a world of globalised media, Japanese popular culture has become a signifi cant fountainhead for images, narrative, artefacts, and identity. From Pikachu, to instantly identifi able manga memes, to the darkness of adult anime, and the hyper- consumerism of product tie- ins, Japan has bequeathed to a globalised world a rich variety of ways to imagine, communicate, and interrogate tradition and change, the self, and the technological future. Within these foci, questions of law have often not been far from the surface: the crime and justice of Astro Boy; the property and contract of Pokémon; the ecological justice of Nausicaä; Shinto’s focus on order and balance; and the anxieties of origins in J- horror. This volume brings together a range of global scholars to refl ect on and critically engage with the place of law and justice in Japan’s popular cultural legacy. It explores not only the global impact of this legacy, but what the images, games, narratives, and artefacts that comprise it reveal about law, humanity, justice, and authority in the twenty-first century.

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Author:   Ashley Pearson ,  Thomas Giddens (St Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK) ,  Kieran Tranter (Griffith University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367895211

ISBN 10:   0367895218
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   06 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Table of Contents List of illustrations Preface List of contributors Crime Fighting Robots and Duelling Pocket Monsters: Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture Ashley Pearson, Thom Giddens and Kieran Tranter PART I: Possibilities of Justice The Symptoms of the Just: Psycho-Pass, Judg(e)ment, and the Asymptomatic Commons Daniel Hourigan Pirates, Giants and the State: Legal Authority in Manga and Anime James C. Fisher Traumatic Origins in Hart and Ringu Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk Justice in the Sea of Corruption: Nausicaä as Ecological Jurisprudence Thomas Giddens Masterful Trainers and Villainous Liberators: Law and justice in Pokémon Black and White Dale Mitchell PART II: The Legal Subject Doing Right in the World with 100,000 Horsepower: Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), Essence, Posthumanity and Techno-humanism Kieran Tranter Caught in Couture: Regulating Clothing and the Body in Kill la Kill Rosie Taylor-Harding Holy Trans-Jurisdictional Representations of Justice, Batman!"": Globalisation, Persona and Mask in Kuwata’s Batmanga and Morrison’s Batman, Incorporated Timothy D. Peters PART III: The Power and Problem of the Image ‘Finding the Law’ through Creating and Consuming Gay Manga in Japan: From Heteronormativity to Queer Activism Thomas Baudinette Regulating Counterpublics in Yaoi Online Fan Communities Scott Beattie ‘Is Yaoi Illegal?!’: Let’s Get Real about the Potential Criminalisation of Yaoi Hadeel Al-Alosi Constitutional Analysis of Secondary Works in Japan: From Otaku to the World Yuichiro Tsuji PART IV: Specificities of Law and Justice in Everyday Japan ‘The World is Rotten’: Execution and Power in Death Note and the Japanese Capital Punishment System Ashley Pearson Debts, Family, and Identity after the Collapse of the Bubble: Miyabe Miyuki’s All She Was Worth Giorgio Fabio Colombo Rules and Unruliness in Manga Depictions of Community Police Boxes Richard Powell and Hideyuki Kumaki The Image-Characters of Criminal Justice in Tokyo Peter D. Rush and Alison Young Index"

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Ashley Pearson is a PhD candidate at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. Thomas Giddens is a Senior Lecturer at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, United Kingdom. Kieran Tranter is an Associate Professor at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.

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