Contesting soft power: Japanese popular culture in East and Southeast Asia

International Relations of the Asia-Pacific

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-101

  Otmazgin, Nissim Kadosh ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 37749040773     PISSN: 1470482X     EISSN: 14704838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/irap/lcm009     Document Type: Article

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