<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear KineJapanners,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In some recent reading, I came across the term "rajio manga." Is anyone familiar with what precisely this refers to? The context of my reading was the weekly radio serial Saiyuuki (Journey to the West) ... better known in English as Monkey or Monkey Magic? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My question is when, how, and why this term "rajio manga" developed? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yours,</DIV><DIV>Jonathan</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">-----</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Jonathan M. Hall</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Japanese Film, Media, and Modern Literature</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature / Film & Media Studies</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; min-height: 12.0px; font-size: 10px; "><BR style="font-size: 10px; "></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">320 Humanities Instructional Building</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">UC Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-2651 USA</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">office: 1-949-824-9778</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">fax: 1-949-824-1992</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Co-Chair, Queer Caucus, Society for Cinema and Media Studies</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>