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Introduction, John W. Treat; Murakami Haruki's 1980s, Aoki Tamotsu; bodyraiders - performative identity in Japanese popular culture, Sandra Buckley;imaginings in the Empires of the Sun - Japanese mass culture in Asia, LeoChing; "Finally, I reach to Africa" - Ryuichi Sakamoto sound(ing) Japan(ese),Brian Currid; popular culture from Japan - karaoke in Asia, KawasakiKen'ichi; in pursuit of perfection - the transportation of signs anddiscourse of cars in two advertising campaigns, Brian Moeran; the making ofromance fiction in Japan, Chieko Mulhern; panic sites - the Japaneseimagination of disaster from "Godzilla" to "Akira", Susan J. Napier; Japanesedaytime television, popular culture and ideology, Andrew Painter; race andreflexivity - the black other in contemporary Japanese mass culture, JohnRussell; fashion trends, Japonisme and postmodernism, or "what is so Japaneseabout 'commes des garcons?'", Lise Skov; mournful tears and "sake" - thepostwar myth of Misora Hibari, Alan Tansman; Yoshimoto Banana writes home -the Shojo in Japanese popular culture, John Whittier Treat.