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Presentation introducing active fan culture (dojin bunka) in Japan

Submitted by nele on Tue, 2008-05-13 15:33

Recently, we were invited to give a manga-related presentation at the VUB (Free University of Brussels) as part of a course on community in Japan. The audience, a group of some twenty-five Communications Studies students, had just spent a year looking at Pokémon from a myriad of different angles by way of group projects.

View the presentation on Slideshare (in Dutch)

Mascots in Japan: now also in a courthouse near you

Submitted by nele on Tue, 2008-05-13 11:48

Just for fun, since we once discussed the value of a mascot to represent the Japanese army (Prince Pickles, in case anyone managed to forget him). The ever-interesting What Japan Thinks has published a survey listing the thirty most popular ("cutest") mascots in Japan.

Thinking about calls for regulation of virtual child pornography in Japan

Submitted by nele on Tue, 2008-04-22 09:27

There has been some interesting controversy over a planned law to forbid the possession of child pornography in Japan. The new law does not mention virtual child pornography, but UNICEF apparently believes it should. (Note: the creation and possession of virtual child pornography is actually forbidden only in very few countries, if any.

Back in business

Submitted by nele on Tue, 2008-04-22 09:20

Finally recovering from what is best summed up as utter chaos due to too few people handling too much work and subsequently having minor burnouts. We have a great many things to report on; I'll try to put in a post every few days for the next weeks, until I've caught up with the last two months' worth of news and project updates.

What we're up to these days

Submitted by nele on Thu, 2008-02-14 10:29

The blog's been quiet for the last month because of some extremely time-consuming event organisation -among others, several manga workshops in a high school (one finished, results in Dutch here), a manga class for adults learning Japanese in evening school, and a week of Japan-related cultural and educational activities organised by the Catholic University of Leuven's

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