Tag: Jonathan Clements

July 10, 2019 · 2 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Originally appearing as two issues of the online journal Arts, Japanese Media Cultures in Japan and Abroad: Transnational Consumption of Manga, Anime and Media-Mixes, edited by Manuel Hernández-Pérez, makes a brave stab at defining a number of important baseline issues in the study of anime and manga. It does contain several tooth-itchingly […]

July 4, 2019 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Poor boy that I am, when I arrived in Japan I did so knowing nobody and nothing – author Ian Buruma turns out to have the Hollywood director John Schlesinger for an uncle, and an oil-business bigwig with a Tokyo mansion for a “distant relative” in 1975. He also already has a […]

June 25, 2019 · 1 comment

By Jonathan Clements. Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities seems at first glance like a grab-bag of buzzwords assembled to attract the attention of search engines rather than humans. The introduction by Fusami Ogi gives up on defining what manga actually means, and her colleague Kazumi Nagaike announces that “…the […]

June 19, 2019 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. It’s not till late in The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time that Anna Sherman reveals that an art exhibit about Tokyo time was her gateway into Japan and the Japanese. Instead, we first encounter her in the middle of her new life in Tokyo, deciding seemingly on a whim […]

June 13, 2019 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Natsu Okuhara is an orphan girl raised on a dairy farm in the Hokkaido countryside. She overcomes loneliness and adversity, eventually gaining acceptance with her adoptive family, before deciding to set out into the big wide world to seek her fortune. Which is all par for the course in an NHK morning […]