Another expensive book (but this one just came out) - Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader, The: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan. I do need to read the essay "Film as a Mechanism of Americanization" - it seems directly relevant to my earlier studies. www.bloomsbury.com/us/hirabayas...
You ever read Century of the Black Ships? It’s kind of an incredible effort in localization - textual analysis of how fiction helped popularize imperialist policy in Japan www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ce...
That's been in my "to be purchased" for a good number of years now. :)
Same. Need to find a discounted copy somewhere. Weird to see Viz try and compete with Stone Bridge Press or Tuttle
I also need to peruse this one at some point. www.schiffermilitary.com/products/jap...