Presentations given by the George Mason University undergraduate students in JAPA 310: Japanese Culture in a Global World on the empirical research projects that they undertook on aspects of the increasingly globalizing Japanese cultural phenomena as part of their coursework.
- Japan’s pretty soldiers: Sailor Moon as a gateway to Japanese interest
- Separate but equal: Japanese games vs. American consumption
- Japanese Idol
- Simple and clean: Japanese influence on modern furniture design
- Why haiku gained popularity
- Localizing the global: American remakes of J-horrors