Foreign Otherness in Japanese Media

Foreign Otherness in JapaneseMedia analyzes contemporary Japanese society by examining the ways in whichJapanese media portrays Latin America and therefore how Japanese readersconstruct their idea of it. Offering a detailed methodology and results fromfield research, andbased on concepts such as otherness, cultivation analysis and the theory of theautopoietic social system as a framework, this book considers the impact ofmass media on the construction of non-dominant foreign cultural subjectivitiesin Japan, and explores the dynamics of otherness in the country. As such, it isapt for scholars in Japanese studies, media studies, and anyone interested inthe interaction between foreigners or Latin Americans and Japan, or in relationsbetween mainstream society and minority groups.