Forms and themes in Japanese popular culture
Historical roots
Postwar popular culture
Themes in Japanese pop
Sources of the Japanese pop imagination
Japanese culture, Western models
The legacies of defeat
Change and subversion
The global appeal of Japanese popular culture
Quality, content, and difference
Familiarity and the media marketplace
The smell of pop
American trauma, Japanese pop
A world of fans
Lost in translation? : adapting Japanese popular culture for global audiences
Dubbing, editing, censoring
Lovable kooks, enduring stereotypes
Remade in America
Japan as soft superpower
The Japanese state and popular culture
The economics of Japanese pop
Soft power, hard realities.