Self-Indroduction and "koko ga hen da yo nihonjin"

[Dolores Martinez]

Hi Jan,
I once wrote an article on a related sort of show: Burlesquing Knowledge in
Banks and Morphy edited *Rethinking Visual Anthropology.*  Don't know if it
will help.  Lola

2009/6/17 Jan Paul Hoga <janpaulhoga at gmail.com>

> Name: Jan Paul Hoga
> Institutional affiliation or job: Center for Japanese Studies, University
> of Marburg, Germany
> City and country: Marburg, Germany
> Research projects or publications: Master-Thesis about the Japanese “self”
> and the “other” in media (not even a working title)
> Interests with regard to Japanese film and moving image media: Japanese
> television and film in general. More of the old films as the new ones
> though.
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm getting near my Mastersthesis and need to find an appropriate topic
> putting japan and media together. Now my search led me to the topic of the
> “self” and the “other” contructed in japanese media of every kind, in its
> extremes pushing and maintaining the myth of “nihonjinron” in japanese
> society. I found the TV-show “koko ga hen da yo nihonjin” as a real popular
> media product ideal for looking at this topic maybe from a way the cultural
> studies do it. For those who don't know the show, it's a kind of dicussion
> often leading to verbal battle between foreigners and Japanese, talking
> about any kind “national” and later on “international” topic or problem,
> i.e. “ijime”, stamps made of ivory, killing wales, love hotels and so on.
>
> I know it's not exacly japanese “film” but maybe you could help me to get
> more than the two episodes I got from my professor on tape. I looked it up
> in the internet for buying (ok, and downloading) but it seems to be too old
> (it ran from 1999 to 2001) for being digitalized and spread very far. I
> think of writing to TBS and asking them by a formal letter if they can do
> something. Do you think they will let me have it? You have any suggestions
> on laying hands on enough episodes to write a masters thesis?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jan Paul Hoga
>
>
>
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