Titlebook: In Godzilla‘s Footsteps; Japanese Pop Culture William M. Tsutsui (Professor of history),Michiko Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division o

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,Mothra’s Gigantic Egg: Consuming the South Pacific in 1960s Japan,—specifically the South Pacific—in Toho monster films? . Godzilla’s original habitat is in the South Pacific. Mothra—a giant silkworm moth—inhabits the imaginary Infant Island, which is in close proximity to the Polynesian Islands. The equally imaginary Faro Island in the South Pacific is supposed t

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Hybridity and Negotiated Identity in Japanese Popular Culture,he standard party line—is that Godzilla is a mutation born of the H-bomb tests. We may well ask, however, a mutation of what? In the earlier scenes on ōdo Island, Godzilla is spoken of as a destructive monster of ancient legend; clearly, his reputation precedes him.. What, then, is the relationship

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Teaching Godzilla: Classroom Encounters with a Cultural Icon,devices that achieved military and political trump card status during that era. It is not too much of a stretch to say that they could also be describing—pun included—Honda Ishirō’s elusive original (uncut and undubbed) 1954 film .. Although hardly a life and death matter in comparison, this source

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