Title Millennial monsters : Japanese toys and the global imagination / Anne Allison ; foreword by Gary Cross.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
Series	Asia--local studies/global themes ; 13
	Asia--local studies/global themes ; 13.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Enchanted commodities -- From ashes to cyborgs : the era of reconstruction (1945/1960) -- Millennial Japan : intimate alienation and new age intimacies -- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers : the first crossover superheroes -- Fierce flesh : sexy schoolgirls in the action fantasy of Sailor Moon -- Tamagotchi : the prosthetics of presence -- Pokømon : getting monsters and communicating capitalism -- "Gotta catch 'em all" : the pokømonization of America (and the world).
Note	Print version record.
Summary	From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese "cool" is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada.
Subject	Toys -- Japan.
	Games -- Japan.
	Animated films -- Japan.
	Video games -- Japan.
	Consumer goods -- Japan.
	Toy industry -- Japan.
	Toys -- Japan -- Marketing.
	Philosophy, Japanese.
	Japan -- Social life and customs.
	ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Toy Animals.
	ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Toys.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	Animated films. (OCoLC)fst00809611
	Consumer goods. (OCoLC)fst00876326
	Games. (OCoLC)fst00937529
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Philosophy, Japanese. (OCoLC)fst01061013
	Toy industry. (OCoLC)fst01153435
	Toys. (OCoLC)fst01153487
	Toys -- Marketing. (OCoLC)fst01153498
	Video games. (OCoLC)fst01166421
	Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
Other Form:	Print version: Allison, Anne, 1950- Millennial monsters. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006 0520221486 0520245652 (DLC) 2005025770 (OCoLC)61479551
ISBN	9780520938991 (electronic bk.)
	0520938992 (electronic bk.)
	1423771125 (electronic bk.)
	9781423771128 (electronic bk.)

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