Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture

From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-30026-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 548 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pearson, Ashley

Giddens, Thomas

Tranter, Kieran

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Medienrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.