Japan's quest for "soft power": Attraction and limitation

East Asia

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 349-363

  Lam, Peng Er ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anime; Cultural diplomacy; Manga; Public diplomacy; Soft power

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ECONOMY; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL HISTORY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

HARNESS;

EID: 50449091750     PISSN: 10966838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12140-007-9028-6     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. See Matt Thorn, "Japan: The Hollywood of Manga", Japan Echo, April 2006 and the special feature titled: "Manga Mania" in Japan Plus: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Vol.4, No.11, March 2007, pp.3-21. Interestingly, Kyoto Seika University has established the nation's first faculty of manga in 2006. The Kyoto International Manga Museum has also been set up in the same city.
2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, Diplomatic Bluebook 2006, p.208
3. "Japan pitches pop culture for diplomacy", Reuters, 28 April 2006. (Accessed: 15 February 2007).
4. See The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, "A New Look at Cultural Diplomacy: A Call to Japan's Cultural Practitioners: Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs Taro Aso at Digital Hollywood University", 28 April 2006.