The field of ‘cultural studies’ has had a major impact in Japan, where many of the seminal English-language texts have been translated and discussed. Even before the Second World War and immediately after, however, Japan had its own intellectual background which set the foundations for this development. This essay looks at that background - through the writings of Tosaka Jun, Nakai Masakazu, Tsurumi Shunsuke and Katô Shûichi. It then examines how British cultural studies made its way to Japan and how it was received there, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. Finally, it points to the research areas in which Japanese cultural studies has found fertile soil and why.
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Hoggart, Richard (1974) Yomikaki nôryoku no kôyô (The Uses of Literacy, translated by Kôchi Saburô). Tokyo: Shôbunsha.
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Katô Tetsurô (1986) Kokkaron no runessansu (Renaissance of Theories of the State). Tokyo: Aoki shoten.
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Satô Takeshi (1973) ‘Mass Communication,’ in Kôza gendai Nihon shihonshugi (Symposium on Contemporary Japanese Capitalism, vol. 4), pp. 51-78. Tokyo: Aoki shoten.
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Satô Takeshi (1975) ‘Igirisu no masukomi kenkyû’ (British studies of mass communication), Shinbun kenkyû (Oct.) 291: 49-55.
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Satô Takeshi (1984) ‘Igirisu ni okeru masu komyunikêshon kenkyû’ (Studies of mass communications in Great Britain), Hôsôgaku kenkyû 34 (NHK, Sôgô hôsô bunka kenkyûjo): 166-99.
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Satô Takeshi (1995) Nihon no media to shakai shinri (The Japanese Media and Social Psychology). Tokyo: Shin’yôsha.
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translation of Out of Apathy by Fukuda Kanichi, Kawai Hidekazu and Maeda Yasuhiro). Tokyo: Iwanami shoten.
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Reprinted in Tosaka Jun zenshû (Complete Works of Tosaka Jun, vol. 3). Tokyo: Keisô shobô.
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Tsurumi Shunsuke (1952) ‘Komyunikêshon’ (Communication), in Tsurumi Kazuko (ed.) Dyûi kenkyû (Dewey Studies), pp. 129-169. Tokyo: Shunjûsha.
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Turner, Graeme (1992) ‘It Works for Me: British Cultural Studies, Australian Cultural Studies, Australian Film’, in L. Grossberg, C. Nelson and P. Treichler (eds) Cultural Studies, pp. 640-653. London: Routledge.
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Williams, Raymond (1969) Komyunikêshon (Communication, translated by Tachihara Hiromoto). Tokyo: Gôdô shuppansha.
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Williams, Raymond (1974) Bunka to shakai, 1780-1950 (Culture and Society, 1780-1950, translated by Wakamatsu Shigenobu and Hasegawa Mitsuaki). Tokyo: Mineruva shobô.
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translation of Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Okazaki Yasukazu). Tokyo: Shôbunsha.
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Williams, Raymond (1983) Nagai kakumei (The Long Revolution, translated by Wakamatsu Shigenobu, Seô Gôkô and Hasegawa Mitsuaki). Tokyo: Mineruva shobô.
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Williams, Raymond (1985) Bunka to wa (Culture, translated by Koike Tamio). Tokyo: Shôbunsha.
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translation of Learning to Labour by Kumazawa Makoto and Yamada Jun). Tokyo: Chikuma shobô.
