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Sex, Censorship And Media Regulation In Japan: A Historical Overview, Mark Mclelland
Sex, Censorship And Media Regulation In Japan: A Historical Overview, Mark Mclelland
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Over the past several decades alarmist reports about the supposed dangers of the sexualised nature of much Japanese popular culture have regularly featured in the English-language press. It has been claimed that Japan is 'awash' in all kinds of pornography, including child pornography (Larimer 1999; Fallows 1986: 38) and that insufficient attempts are made by the authorities to properly regulate the expression of sexual matters. A major concern of such reporting has been the supposed 'dark side' (McGinty 2002) of the manga (comics) which are ubiquitous in Japan and, since the 1980s, have become popular with young people worldwide. International …
'How To Sex'? The Contested Nature Of Sexuality In Japan, Mark J. Mclelland
'How To Sex'? The Contested Nature Of Sexuality In Japan, Mark J. Mclelland
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
There has been a tendency in English and other European-language reporting on Japan to stress the strangeness and otherness of Japanese values, particularly in regard to sexuality. Reports of Japanese immorality go back as far as the sixteenth century when the first Jesuit visitors to the country were appalled by open displays of cross-dressing and male-male sexual relations (Cooper 1965). After the ‘opening’ of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century, Victorian visitors were alternately intrigued and shocked by the government-regulated prostitution that took place in Japan’s many pleasure quarters. Commentators have noted how the figure of the geisha, in particular (albeit …
Introduction: Art And Activism In Post-Disaster Japan, Alexander Brown, Vera C. Mackie
Introduction: Art And Activism In Post-Disaster Japan, Alexander Brown, Vera C. Mackie
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
On 11 March 2011, the northeastern area of Japan, known as Tōhoku, was hit by an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami. The disaster damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, one of a number of such facilities located in what was already an economically disadvantaged region.2 This led to a series of explosions and meltdowns and to the leakage of contaminated water and radioactive fallout into the surrounding area. Around 20,000 people were reported dead or missing, with a disproportionate number from the aged population of the region. Nearly four years later, hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced: evacuated …
Migrant Workers In Contemporary Japan: An Institutional Perspective On Transnational Employment., Hironori Onuki
Migrant Workers In Contemporary Japan: An Institutional Perspective On Transnational Employment., Hironori Onuki
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Migrant Workers in Contemporary Japan is primarily concerned with changes in social institutions within the context of globalization and the implications of these changes for the lifestyles of people living and working in Japanese society.
New Media, Censorship And Gender: Using Obscenity Law To Restrict Online Self-Expression In Japan And China, Mark J. Mclelland
New Media, Censorship And Gender: Using Obscenity Law To Restrict Online Self-Expression In Japan And China, Mark J. Mclelland
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The widespread take-up of Internet technologies from the mid-1990s has proven challenging to nation states that seek to limit access to ideas, information or images that the political class considers dangerous or inappropriate for the general population. As a largely deterritorialized technology, the Internet allows access to material that circumvents national legislatures and ignores local ratings systems and in so doing facilitates all kinds of inter-cultural and transnational flows of communication. Different countries have different sensitivities regarding the kinds of material that should not be freely available to their citizens and although the entry of such material is closely scrutinized …