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Author Ashcraft, Brian, author.

Title Japanese schoolgirl confidential : how teenage girls made a nation cool / Brian Ashcraft ; with Shoko Ueda
Edition Revised edition
Published Tokyo ; Rutland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Chapter One. Uniforms -- Chapter Two. Music -- Chapter Three. Movies -- Chapter Four. Shopping -- Chapter Five. Kogals, magazines & books -- Chapter Six. Art -- Chapter Seven. Games -- Chapter Eight. Manga & anime -- Conclusion
Summary "For years, Japanese schoolgirls have appeared in hugely-popular anime and manga series such as Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and Blood: The Last Vampire. These girls are literally showing up everywhere--in movies, magazines, video games, advertising, and music. WIRED Magazine has kept an eye on the trends emerging from these stylish teens, following kick-ass schoolgirl characters in videogames like Street Fighter and assassin schoolgirls in movies like Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. By talking to Japanese women, including former and current J-Pop idols, well-known actresses, models, writers, and artists--along with famous Japanese film directors, historians and marketers--authors Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda (who have both contributed to WIRED's 'Japanese Schoolgirl Watch' columns) reveal the true story behind Japan's schoolgirl obsessions"--Provided by publisher
Notes Previous edition: Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2010
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-204) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Girls -- Japan
Schoolgirls -- Japan
Girls
Schoolgirls
Social conditions
SUBJECT Japan -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008001967
Subject Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Ueda, Shoko, author.
ISBN 9781462914098
1462914098