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Manga, Murder and Mystery: Investigating the Revival of the Boy Detective in Japan’s Lost Decade
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The past two decades have seen a sustained growth in the number of Japanese mystery and detective comics (manga) publications that feature boys (and girls) as crime fighting agents. While the earliest incarnation of the boy detective character type can be traced to the works of Edogawa Rampo...
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Playing in Public: Situated Play at the Intersection of Software, Cabinet and Space in Japanese Game Centres
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This dissertation examines the phenomenon of play that takes place in Japanese game centres. After reviewing and establishing a history of early amusement centres and video game arcade parlours in Japan and the academic and critical discourses surrounding them, I engage in a close reading of...
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