The Rise of Japanese Visual Narratives (original) (raw)
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Editors:
- Hiroshi Deguchi
- Faculty of Commerce and Economics, Chiba University of Commerce, Ichikawa-shi, Japan
- Hideyuki Tanaka
- Grad School of Int discip Info Stud, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
- Yusuke Koyama
- Shibaura Institute of Technology, Minuma-ku, Japan
- Focuses on the industrial structure and economics of reproducible contents created by people in an environment of high cultural diversity
- Discusses the characteristics of the hypervariety market where innovation is achieved by collaboration among users and creators of reproducible contents
- Provides examples of the hypervariety market in Japanese contents industries such as manga, anime, and video games
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Characteristics of Japanese visual narratives are depicted in this book, shedding light on cultural, institutional, and industrial aspects of reproducible contents. The book consists of three parts which deal with the Japanese contents industry, the hypervariety industry revolution, and related case studies, respectively. The first part proposes points of view for organizing research on the Japanese contents industry. The authors explain characteristics of the industry from the standpoint of cultural, institutional, and industrial strata. The second part explains the system of revolution in the industry as a hypervariety industry. The Japanese contents industry implicitly predicts the next innovation system, which will be hypervarietal but not top-down or Hollywood style as in the Western economy. The third part provides case studies on phenomena such as the comics market, Akihabara: a cross-cultural town, Cool Japan, and animation.
Editors and Affiliations
Faculty of Commerce and Economics, Chiba University of Commerce, Ichikawa-shi, Japan
Hiroshi Deguchi
Grad School of Int discip Info Stud, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Hideyuki Tanaka
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Minuma-ku, Japan
Yusuke Koyama
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Bibliographic Information
- Book Title: The Rise of Japanese Visual Narratives
- Book Subtitle: Cultural, Institutional, and Industrial Aspects of Reproducible Contents
- Editors: Hiroshi Deguchi, Hideyuki Tanaka, Yusuke Koyama
- Series Title: Translational Systems Sciences
- Publisher: Springer Tokyo
- eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
- Copyright Information: Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature 2027
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54912-3Due: 15 July 2027
- eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54913-0Due: 15 July 2027
- Series ISSN: 2197-8832
- Series E-ISSN: 2197-8840
- Edition Number: 1
- Number of Pages: VIII, 242
- Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations
Keywords
- Contents Industry
- Hyper Variety Market
- Innovation in the “Stationary State”
- Visual Narratives
- “Dojin” Culture