Live in London, April 14
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The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation invites you to an afternoon lecture
Pop Culture from a Multipolar Japan
Thursday, 14 April, 2011
4-5pm, followed by a drinks reception to 6pm
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle London NW1 4QP
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Is there something more to the West's fascination with Japanese anime and manga? How are anime films and manga comics cultural channeling zones, opened by the horrors of war and disaster and animated by the desire to assemble a world of new looks, feelings and identities? Professor at the University of Tokyo, Sophia University and the University of the Sacred Heart Tokyo, Roland Kelts addresses the movement of Japanese culture into the West as sign and symptom of broader reanimations. With uncertainty now the norm, style, he argues, is trumping identity, explaining, in part, the success of Japanese pop and fashion, design and cuisine in the West.
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Contributors:
Roland Kelts is a half-Japanese American writer, editor and lecturer who divides his time between New York and Tokyo. He is the author of E-mail address Telephone Position/organization Postal address
