Transnationalizing Culture of Japan in Asia: Dramas, Musics, Arts and Agencies

This volume is an attempt to tackle the topic of transnationalization of Japan’s culture in Asia in the domain of drama, music, and arts. Along the way, the authors generate questions as they develop the themes of the hybrid and the reactionary, the localizing and accommodating in the films and arts, even a nostalgia for a place as imagined by strangers and outsiders becomes a landscape and at once a performance stage.

Published in 2009 for the Japanese Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University.