Abstract
Articles
Introduction
(A)cute Confusion: The Unpredictable Journey of Japanese Popular Culture
Mark McLelland
Re-imagining the Otaku
Eureka Discovers Culture Girls, Fujoshi, and BL: Essay Review of Three Issues of the Japanese Literary Magazine, Yuriika (Eureka)
Tomoko Aoyama
Train Man and the Gender Politics of Japanese 'Otaku' Culture: The Rise of New Media, Nerd Heroes and Consumer Communities
Alisa Freedman
Game Girl: Re-imagining Japanese Gender and Gaming via Melbourne Female Cosplayers
Larissa Hjorth
Selling Otaku? Mapping the Relationship between Industry and Fandom in the Australian Cosplay Scene
Craig Norris and Jason Bainbridge
Transnational Bricolage: Gothic Lolita and the Political Economy of Fashion
Vera Mackie
Book Reviews
Richard Eves and Leslie Butt (eds)
Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality and Power in Melanesia
reviewed by George Darroch
Barbara Summerhawk and Kimberley Hughes (eds)
Sparking Rain and Other Fiction from Japan of Women Who Love Women
reviewed by James Welker
Amy Hanser
Service Encounters: Class, Gender and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China
reviewed by James Coates
Elise Tipton
Modern Japan: A Social and Political History Second Edition
reviewed by Kumiko Kawashima
Boys Love Goes Global
Elegant Caucasians, Amorous Arabs, and Invisible Others: Signs and Images of Foreigners in Japanese BL Manga
Kazumi Nagaike
The Shared Imagination of Bishōnen, Pan-East Asian Soft Masculinity: Reading DBSK, Youtube.com and Transcultural New Media Consumption
Sun Jung
GloBLisation and Hybridisation: Publishers' Strategies for Bringing Boys' Love to the United States
Dru Pagliassotti
Conflicting Discourses on Boys' Love and Subcultural Tactics in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Ting Liu
Home-grown Shōjo Manga and the Rise of Boys' Love among Germany's 'Forty-Niners'
Paul M. Malone
Documentary
On the Japanese Doll Complex: Introduction
Katrien Jacobs
On the Japanese Doll Complex: Four Noteworthy Incidents: Film
Katrien Jacobs
Arts Reviews
Takao Kawaguchi and Fuyuki Yamakawa
D.D.D.
reviewed by Jyh Wee Sew
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