--Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, "Image, Information, Commodity: A Few Speculations on Japanese Televisual Culture," in Xiaobing Tang and Stephen Snyder, eds., _In Pursuit of Contemporary East Asian Culture_ (Boulder: Westvew Press, 1996), pp. 123-137. It is about game shows, quizzes, and tarento culture. Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto