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During the period, the capital of what was once a military empire experienced occupation by the United States, hosted the Olympic Games, and transformed into a consumer hub where young people could enjoy economic “wealth.” This period of great change was recorded in countless photographs, documentary films, and TV programs. In this lecture, I will share a selection of these archived films and photos and analyze what happened in postwar Tokyo, a time period when countless gazes encountered others; gazes between Americans and the Showa Emperor, gazes looking up toward the tops of skyscrapers or rushing aggressively through the cityscape, and gazes twining and wriggling among classes, genders, and ethnic groups. At the same time, I will try to problematize the geo-political location of these “gazes” in the post world war context. The questions are: What kinds of gazes fell upon the war orphans, the poor, and the marginalized groups in Tokyo? How did people behave in front of these gazes? In answering these questions, I will identify the geo-politics historically involved in the practice of immagination from/on the city.  \nShunya Yoshimi is a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (III). He has also served in multiple positions at The University of Tokyo, including Dean of Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies; Vice President of the University of Tokyo; Chairman of the University of Tokyo Newspaper; and Chairman of University of Tokyo Press. Being a pioneer of cultural studies and media studies in Japan, in his research Professor Yoshimi focuses on postwar and contemporary Japan, especially everyday life and cultural politics from the perspective of dramaturgy. His major publications include the Japanese-language books include Dramaturgy in the City: A Social History of Popular Entertainments in Modern Tokyo (Kobundo, 1987), The Politics of Exposition: Imperialism, Commercialism and Popular Entertainment (Chuokoronsha, 1992), Cultural Sociology in the Media Age (Shinyosha, 1994), Voice of Capitalism: The Social Construction of Telephone, Gramophone and Radio in Japan (Kodansha, 1995), Expo Syndrome: Postwar Politics and Cultural Struggle in Postwar Japan (Chikuma Shobo, 2005), Pro-America, Anti-America: Political Unconsciousness in  \nPostwar Japan (Iwanami Shoten, 2007), Atoms for Dream (Chikuma Shinsho, 2012), Out of America (Kobundo), Abolition of the Humanities? (Shueisha, 2016), Geopolitics of Visual City (Iwanami Shoten, 2016), Scales of History (Shueisha, 2017), Between Post-war and Post-disaster (Shueisha, 2018) and Living in Trump’s America (Iwanami Shinsho, forthcoming) . Prof. Yoshimi has been a member of the executive committee of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Routledge), editorial board of Cultural Studies (Routledge), and the editorial advisory board of Japanese Studies (Carfax Publishing). 2017-18 he was visiting professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. For an example in English see “Yoshimi Shunya interviewed by Khukee Choo,” Television and Media, vol. 12, no. 6, 2011, 560-572.  \nFabienne Darling-Wolf: Japan’s global resonances: From ukiyo-e to La Nouvelle Manga  \nThe spread of Japanese manga to “the West” is often described in both academic literature and popular culture as a relatively recent phenomenon born of Japan’s late 20th Century cool combined with 21st century digital access. Such a narrative, however, does not do justice to the medium’s longstanding historical resonances with multiple dimensions of global culture. Tracing these resonances back to the 19th century spread of ukiyo-e to Europe, this presentation explores manga’s various e","cbCaiiHNGvUwEWoL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiHNGvUwEWoL","pdf",230522,17,"English","# Shun’ya Yoshimi: Postwar Tokyo: Reality and Imagination through Camera\n## Geo-politics of “gazes” and marginalized groups\n# Fabienne Darling-Wolf: Japan’s global resonances: From ukiyo-e to La Nouvelle Manga\n## Transnational encounters and cultural politics\n# Alisa Freedman: Introducing Japanese Popular Culture: How students inspire textbooks\n## Manga pedagogy and curriculum development","[{\"question\":\"What framework does the conference use to connect manga and comics with media studies?\",\"answer\":\"It links manga and comics to media studies via area studies, focusing on how media forms develop through historical and global cultural encounters.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the postwar Tokyo talk interpret visual “gazes”?\",\"answer\":\"It analyzes how different groups and institutions produced and confronted “gazes,” and how those viewing practices carried geopolitical meaning in postwar contexts.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does manga play in Japanese popular culture teaching and materials?\",\"answer\":\"Manga helps students and educators develop curricula and textbooks, while also raising ethical and legal challenges tied to representation and media education.\"}]","Conference Manga, Comics and Japan - Area Studies as Media Studies | PDF",43]