Jumping to the Right
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2131592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip J Cunningham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2005-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466005001439 |
| OpenAlex | W4410181349 |
| Language | EN |
At first glance, the handful of Tokyo rightists who created a furor about a graphic scene of the Nanjing Massacre in two September issues of the popular manga magazine Young Jump Weekly are a surprisingly tolerant lot. They restricted their complaint to technical issues in "My Country is Burning" (Kuni ga moeru!) by Motomiya Hiroshi, the only remotely educational series in a popular weekly comic book, and ignored 400 pages of gratuitous sex, violence, scatology and gore that dominates this illustrated publication with a reported circulation of 2 million
Jumping · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Japanese History and Culture · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Geology · Paleontology
| Highly cited | No |
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