Introduction: Media culture globalization and national border transgression -- Banal inter-nationalism and its others -- Cool Japan, brand nationalism and the public interest -- Lost in trans-nation : post-Orientalism and actually existing multicultural reality -- Making it multinational : media representation of multicultural Japan -- The Korean wave and the dis/empowering of resident Koreans in Japan -- East Asian media culture connections, inter-Asian referencing and cross-border dialogue.
Summary:
"This book discusses how the evolution of market-driven cultural globalization has reinforced the administration of national cultural borders in Japan. As a result of these processes, a particular kind of cross-border connectivity and exchange is embraced while cross-border dialogue and engagement with multicultural questions within Japan are discouraged"--Provided by publisher.
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