Welcome to PokéFarm! - PokéFarm. Website cultures. Chinese subculture. Chinese subculture- note. Otaku anthropology: exploring Japan's unique subculture. 15inShare Jump To Close Patrick Galbraith wants you to know that otaku isn’t just Japanese for "nerd. " The Alaska-born ethnographer and journalist has spent over a decade studying the subculture, from cosplayers to collectors, "rotten girls" to bishojo-loving boys. On his way to a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo — he’s now working on second doctorate, this time in cultural anthropology at Duke University — he published two books, The Otaku Encyclopedia and Tokyo Realtime: Akihabara.
His latest book is Otaku Spaces, a collaboration with photographer Androniki Christodoulou. The book offers 20 portraits of self-declared otaku, paired with incisive and revealing interviews. But why study otaku at all? Section TOC Title That approach, coupled with historical perspective, reveals a rich subculture — and one with a complex relationship with the Japanese mainstream.
In 1989, Japanese police apprehended 27-year-old Tsutomu Miyazaki after he’d attempted to molest a schoolgirl. Otaku: note.