Law and justice in Japanese popular culture :  from crime fighting robots to duelling pocket monsters / 
edited by Ashley Pearson, Thomas Giddens and Kieran Tranter. 
 - xii, 276 pages ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Crime fighting robots and duelling pocket monsters: law and justice in Japanese popular culture / Ashley Pearson, Thom Giddens and Kieran Tranter -- Possibilities of justice. The symptoms of the just: psycho-pass, judg(e)ment, and the asymptomatic commons / Daniel Hourigan -- Pirates, giants and the state: legal authority in manga and anime / James C Fisher -- Traumatic origins in Hart and Ringu / Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk -- Justice in the sea of corruption: nausica✹as ecological jurisprudence / Thomas Giddens -- Masterful trainers and villainous liberators: law and justice in Pokon black and white / Dale Mitchell -- The legal subject. Doing right in the world with 100,000 horsepower: Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), essence, posthumanity and techno-humanism / Kieran Tranter -- Caught in couture: regulating clothing and the body in Kill la kill / Rosie Taylor-Harding -- Holy trans-jurisdictional representations of justice, Batman!: globalisation, persona and mask in Kuwata's Batmanga and Morrison's Batman, Incorporated / Tim Peters -- The power and problem of the image.'Finding the law' through creating and consuming gay manga in Japan: from heteronormativity to queer activism / Thomas Baudinette -- Regulating counterpublics in Yaoi online fan communities / Scott Beattie --'Is Yaoi illegal?!': let's get real about the potential criminalisation of yaoi / Hadeel al-Alosi -- Constitutional analysis of secondary works in Japan: from Otaku to the world / Yuichiro Tsuji -- Specificities of law and justice in everyday Japan.'The world is rotten': execution and power in death note and the Japanese capital punishment system / Ashley Pearson -- Debts, family, and identity after the collapse of the bubble: Miyabe Miyuki's All she was worth / Giorgio Fabio Colombo -- Rules and unruliness in manga depictions of community police boxes / Richard Powell and Hideyuki Kumaki -- The image-characters of criminal justice in Tokyo / Peter D. Rush and Alison Young. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138300262  RM583.94 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sociological jurisprudence--Japan.<br/>Law in mass media.<br/>Mass media--Social aspects--Japan.<br/>Popular culture--Japan.