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The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media broadens the scope of inquiry into Japanese popular culture both locally and globally. It combines the works of scholars hailing from such diverse places as the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Korea, Taiwan and South Africa (and, of course, Japan) to build a complex picture of the nature of Japanese media and of their contribution to global cultural flows.

The handbook is divided into five thematic sections. PART I, Japanese media: a bit of historical context provides some historical background on the role of the Japanese media at key moments of Japanese history--from the Meiji restoration that marked Japan's opening to the West after years of intense isolation to the immediate post-war era. PART II, Media, nation, politics and nostalgia considers how Japan's national and political identity is imagined and (re)negotiated in different media both in recent history--such as, for instance, during Japan's "lost decade" of the 1990s--and in today's "post Fukushima" society. The essays in PART III, Japanese identities--plural: race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary media explore the role of the Japanese media in shaping and representing different dimensions of individuals' identities. PART IV, Japanese media in everyday life includes works that examine the intersection between everyday routine media use and the formation of cultural identities and civil society. Finally, PART V, Japanese media and the global explores the role of the Japanese media in a broader global context with a particular focus on Japan as a culturally influential nation.