Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

ISBN-13: 9780816653522

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Publication Date: 03-25-2009

Pages: 200

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

Hiroki Azuma is codirector of the Academy of Humanities in the Center for the Study of World Civilizations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. A leading cultural critic in Japan, he is the author of seven books, including Ontological, Postal, which won the 2000 Suntory Literary Prize. Jonathan E. Abel is assistant professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. Hiroki Azuma is codirector of the Academy of Humanities in the Center for the Study of World Civilizations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. A leading cultural critic in Japan, he is the author of seven books, including Ontological, Postal, which won the 2000 Suntory Literary Prize.