TY - JOUR AU - Pellitteri, Marco PY - 2019/06/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Review of Teaching Japanese Popular Culture- Edited by Deborah Shamoon and Chris McMorran JF - Mutual Images Journal JA - MI VL - IS - 6 SE - Reviews DO - 10.32926/2018.6.r.pel.teach UR - https://www.mutualimages-journal.org/index.php/mi/article/view/Vol6-10 SP - 169-178 AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">Deborah Shamoon, Chris McMorran, and Kam Thiam Huat organised a ‘Teaching Japanese Popular Culture’ international conference that was held at the National University of Singapore in 2012, with the support of the Japan Foundation. The book, however, more than a printed upshot of that athenaeum is a production of the Association for Asian Studies, which has its headquarters in the United States. In this sense, <em>Teaching Japanese Popular Culture</em> is to be framed as a US-American book, edited and produced in the United States by the Aas. I will get back to this detail in the final remarks of this review.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, anybody who ever edited a book formed of contributions by various and diverse authors perfectly knows about all the issues that may come along. One of the most frequent is to find an organic trajectory, a path, an overall meaningful structure out of what often is, at first, a discontinuous group of writings that not necessarily have much in common with each other.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If the editors are not inspired, or the materials selected or available aren’t mutually matching enough, there is [...]</p> ER -