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Individual groups within IPA Website cultures Chinese subculture- note Chinese subculture Otaku: 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." 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. As Galbraith explains, the figure of Miyazaki still haunts the public perception of otaku. Otaku Spaces April 17, 2012 Chin Music Press Inc., 240 pages Miyazaki’s crimes only exacerbated that negative perception. "I wonder if people would accept in the US, after a mass murder, anyone saying, ‘Oh, I know why he did this: because he’s a comic book fan,’" Galbraith says, before noting that Seduction of the Innocent, a 1954 book by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, claimed that then-popular "crime comics" promoted juvenile delinquency. Today’s otaku have it better.

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