Sökning: "Japanese popular culture"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 uppsatser innehållade orden Japanese popular culture.

  1. 1. Not so Cool Japan? Exploring the perceptions of contemporary Japan among Euro-American exchange students

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Författare :Luke Farrelly-Spain; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Orientalism; Perceptions; Nihonjinron; Japan; Popular culture; Cultural engagement; Coolness; Othering; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the perceptions of Japan among Euro-American international students and investigates how these perceptions influence their motivation to study in the country. By exploring the relationship between popular culture, orientalist depictions, and cultural engagement, this study aims understand the complex dynamics which shape these students' attraction to Japan and their understanding of its culture. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Hakuōki : Translating the experience of an otomegame

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Författare :Milla Olkkonen; [2022]
    Nyckelord :translation; character language; otome game; equivalent game play experience; Japanese English translation;

    Sammanfattning : Hakuōki, produced by Idea Factory, is an otome game series set in late Edo periodJapan. It is among the most popular video game series in its genre. The games inthis series have been localized for the English video game market, one that is verydifferent from the source culture. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Mangaesque Characters in Physical Space: An ethnographic study of butler café Swallowtail as female sanctuary

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

    Författare :Carolina Lindström; [2021]
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    Sammanfattning : Since the 1970s, Japanese contemporary popular culture as an academic field has gained increased attention, which has led to the emergence of fan culture and fandom studies. There is a certain academic bias toward otaku (i.e. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Economic Consequences of a Triple Disaster: A Comparative Case Study of the Great East Japan Earthquake

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Elin Yang Liu; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Natural disaster; Synthetic control method; Economic impact; Japan; Tohoku;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the economic effects of natural disasters by studying the particular case of Tohoku earthquake and tsunami 2011 in Japan. Specifically, the statistical methodology of synthetic controls is used to estimate the change in GDP per capita caused by this incident. LÄS MER

  7. 5. ”Now that they’re teaching ’patriotism’ in the schools again, maybe it wasn’t in your history books.” Om historiebruk i skräckserier

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Författare :Aiden Kvarnström; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Manga; Historia; History; Skräck; Historiebruk;

    Sammanfattning : The research in this paper is focused on examining the use of history in horror comics, particularly the example of manga. The paper focuses on examining how the use of history takes shape in a certain part of popular culture, why the particular historical incidents portrayed may have been chosen and whether the conventions of the horror genre affect the way the story is told. LÄS MER