Japan Edge: The Insider's Guide to Japanese Pop Subculture

by Mason Jones, Patrick Macias, Yuji Oniki

This lively, idiosyncratic survey of Japanese film, music, animation, and comics showcases the experiences of five avid American fans: journalist Carl Gustav Horn, who writes about anime; critic and musician Mason Jones, who releases Japanese alternative music on his Charnel Music record label; Patrick Macias, a writer on Asian film for the San Francisco Bay Guardian; Matt Thorn, a translator and expert on shojo (girls') manga;

Genres: Japan, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published July 6, 1999

About the author

For ten years, Loren Rhoads was the editor of the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. Before that, she wrote about cemeteries for Gothic.Net. Her fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, City Slab, Not One of Us, etc., and in the chapbooks Ashes & Rust and The Paramental Appreciation Society. Now she has four stories in Sins of the Sirens: 14 Tales of Dark Desire."