Table of Contents:
  • Why Japanese television now? / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Banishment of Murdoch's Sky in Japan: a tale of David and Goliath? / JungBong Choi
  • "Ordinary foreigners" wanted: multinationalization of multicultural questions in a Japanese TV talk show / Koichi Iwabuchi
  • The uses of routine: NHK's amateur singing contest in historical perspective / Shuhei Hosokawa
  • Scaling the TV station: Fuji Television, digital development, and fictions of a global Tokyo / Stephanie DeBoer
  • The dramatic consequences of playing a lover: stars and televisual culture in Japan / Eva Tsai
  • Kind participation: postmodern consumption and capital with Japan's telop tv / Aaron Gerow
  • Revolutionary girls: from Oscar to Utena / Noriko Aso
  • Dream labor in dream factory: Japanese commercial television in the era of market fragmentation / Gabriella Lukacs
  • Can't live without happiness: reflexivity and Japanese TV drama / Kelly Hu
  • Becoming prodigal Japanese: portraits of Japanese Americans on Japanese television / Christine R. Yano
  • Global and local materialities of anime / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
  • Becoming Kikaida: Japanese television and generational identity in Hawaiʻi / Hirofumi Katsuno.