Presentations given by the George Mason University undergraduate students in JAPA 310: Japanese Culture in a Global World on the empirical research projects that they undertook on aspects of the increasingly globalizing Japanese cultural phenomena as part of their coursework.

  • Japan’s pretty soldiers: Sailor Moon as a gateway to Japanese interest
  • Separate but equal: Japanese games vs. American consumption
  • Japanese Idol
  • Simple and clean: Japanese influence on modern furniture design
  • Why haiku gained popularity
  • Localizing the global: American remakes of J-horrors