Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of complicated material about
sexualized schoolgirls, and few topics have caught the imagination of western observers so …

In this article, the authors provide a layered analysis of Ebola-chan, a visual cultural artifact
of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak. Rather than considering her as a two-dimensional anime …

Introductory Criminology: The Study of Risky Situations takes a unique and intuitive
approach to teaching and learning criminology. Avoiding the fragmentation of ideas …

This book explores the gamer's dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the
morality of certain video game content. The dilemma is as follows: given that gaming content …

and updated accounts of original texts which constitutes the most comprehensive overview
of both classic and contemporary scholarship in the field of gender and culture. This …

This book addresses the criminalisation of sexually explicit material depicting or describing
fictitious characters who appear to be children. It is the first book of its kind to specifically …

The term 'otaku'is generally used in Japan to denote subcultures revolving around the
consumption of popular culture, such as manga, anime and games. This paper, however …

Since the early 2000s, Japan has pursued a range of policy initiatives under the banner of
“cool Japan.” These policy initiatives are based on the idea that certain forms of Japanese …

Satire's critical bite exposes it more often than other forms of humor to various kinds of
restraint or control. While most studies of satire focus on its formal censorship (by editorial …

We examine the creation of dôjinshi works critiquing the passage of the metropolitan Tokyo
ordinance Bill 156 in December 2010 as a case of fandriven political activism. Bill 156 aims …