Media theory in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…From film to television : early theories of television in Japan / Aaron Gerow -- Architecture as atmospheric media : Tange Lab and cybernetics / Yuriko Furuhata -- The media theory and media strategy of Azuma Hiroki, 1997-2003 / Takeshi Kadobayashi -- The intercommunication project : theorizing media in Japan's lost decades / Marilyn Ivy -- McLuhan as prescription drug : actionable theory and advertising industries / Marc Steinberg -- The culture industries and media theory in Japan / Miryam Sas -- Girlscape : the marketing of mediatic ambience in Japan / Tomiko Yoda -- 1980s "Nyū Aca" : (non)media theory as romantic performance / Alexander Zahlten -- Critical media imagination : Nancy Seki's TV criticism and the media space of the 1980s and 1990s / Ryoko Misono -- At the source (code) : obscenity and modularity in Rokudenashiko's media -- Activism / Anne McKnight -- An assault on "meaning" : on Nakai Masakazu's concept of "mediation" / Akihiro Kitada -- Much Ado about "Nothing" : The Kyōto school as "media philosophy" / Fabian Schäfer -- Kobayashi Hideo and the question of media / Keisuke Kitano -- Media, mediation, and crisis : a history, and the case for media studies as (postcultural) anthropology / Tom Looser.…”
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Japan--change and continuity /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Japan -- Change and Continuity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Much ado about nothing? The limited scope of political reform in Japan; 3 Regulatory reforms in Japan: issues and prospects; 4 Reforming Japanese banks and the financial system; 5 Changes in the J-type firm: from bank-centred governance to internal governance; 6 Continuity and change in Japanese human capital formation; 7 Changing environmental policy agendas: Japan's approach to international environmental problems…”
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