JANPN 215: Cool Japan Today This course examines contemporary media culture and products as a conceptual lens to focus on Japanese pop culture and soft power in the 21st Century. Manga, Anime, Cinema, literature, performance art, music, and fine arts will all be surveyed with an eye to understanding what exactly is cool and different about Japanese creative work and whether these kinds of cultural exports could become the foundation of a new post-industrial Japanese economy.
JAPN 215: The name of the course tells us all about the content . This is introduced the popular trends of Modern Japan. Japan is said to be the number one export of modern culture to other countries today. It is not surprisng to hear because a number of video game, JPOP, JROCK, manga, and anime can be seen all around the globe. For this reason culture is the number export of Japan. The reason why im studying Japanese is that I introduced to the popular culture at a young age. Growing up I would stay up late waiting for the newest animes to be aired on Cartoon Networks, Adult Swim. Anime such as Cowboy Bebop and FLCL are some of the reasons why I am studying this language,
Studio Ghibli is one the world's premier animation studio producing such films as, My Neibor Tortoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Spirited Away which one the studio an Oscar for Best Animation in 2003. I grew up watching these movies so when Professor Andrew Painter told us we can write about any topic I decided to write about Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli due to the fact that they have been producing films for the last 25 years. This course is under MLO 2