Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture - From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters

List of contents

Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
List of contributors

1. Crime Fighting Robots and Duelling Pocket Monsters: Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture
Ashley Pearson, Thom Giddens and Kieran Tranter
PART I: Possibilities of Justice


2. The Symptoms of the Just: Psycho-Pass, Judg(e)ment, and the Asymptomatic Commons
Daniel Hourigan


3. Pirates, Giants and the State: Legal Authority in Manga and Anime
James C. Fisher


4. Traumatic Origins in Hart and Ringu
Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk


5. Justice in the Sea of Corruption: Nausicaä as Ecological Jurisprudence
Thomas Giddens


6. Masterful Trainers and Villainous Liberators: Law and justice in Pokémon Black and White
Dale Mitchell
PART II: The Legal Subject


7. Doing Right in the World with 100,000 Horsepower: Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), Essence, Posthumanity and Techno-humanism
Kieran Tranter


8. Caught in Couture: Regulating Clothing and the Body in Kill la Kill
Rosie Taylor-Harding


9. Holy Trans-Jurisdictional Representations of Justice, Batman!": Globalisation, Persona and Mask in Kuwata’s Batmanga and Morrison’s Batman, Incorporated
Timothy D. Peters
PART III: The Power and Problem of the Image


10. ‘Finding the Law’ through Creating and Consuming Gay Manga in Japan: From Heteronormativity to Queer Activism
Thomas Baudinette


11. Regulating Counterpublics in Yaoi Online Fan Communities
Scott Beattie


12. ‘Is Yaoi Illegal?!’: Let’s Get Real about the Potential Criminalisation of Yaoi
Hadeel Al-Alosi


13. Constitutional Analysis of Secondary Works in Japan: From Otaku to the World
Yuichiro Tsuji
PART IV: Specificities of Law and Justice in Everyday Japan


14. ‘The World is Rotten’: Execution and Power in Death Note and the Japanese Capital Punishment System
Ashley Pearson


15. Debts, Family, and Identity after the Collapse of the Bubble: Miyabe Miyuki’s All She Was Worth
Giorgio Fabio Colombo


16. Rules and Unruliness in Manga Depictions of Community Police Boxes
Richard Powell and Hideyuki Kumaki

17. The Image-Characters of Criminal Justice in Tokyo

Peter D. Rush and Alison Young
Index

About the author

Ashley Pearson is a PhD candidate at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Thomas Giddens is a Senior Lecturer at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, United Kingdom.
Kieran Tranter is an Associate Professor at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.

Summary

In a world of global media, Japanese popular culture has become a significant fountainhead for images, narrative, artefacts, and identity. This volume brings global scholars together to critically engage with the place of law and justice in the culture.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley Giddens Pearson
• Assisted by: Thomas Giddens (Editor), Thomas (St Mary's University College Giddens (Editor), Giddens Thomas (Editor), Ashley Pearson (Editor), Pearson Ashley (Editor), Kieran Tranter (Editor), Kieran (Griffith University Tranter (Editor), Tranter Kieran (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780367895211
• ISBN: 978-0-367-89521-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; Japan, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law