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Notes on Contributors xv<br />

W. David Marx is Chief Editor of the web journal Néojaponisme (http://<br />

neojaponisme.com). He holds a BA from Harvard University, USA, in<br />

East Asian studies, and an MA from Keio University’s Graduate School<br />

of Business and Commerce, Japan. His master’s thesis looked at the effect<br />

of industrial organization on the Japanese music industry’s rate of innovation.<br />

He has published widely on Japanese culture, including on CNN<br />

and in Harper’s, GQ, andBrutus, aswellasinBest Music Writing 2009.<br />

Kazumi Nagaike is an associate professor at the Center for International<br />

Education and Research at Oita National University in Japan.<br />

Her scholarly interests include the analysis of female acts of fantasizing<br />

male–male eroticism in literary works and popular culture materials.<br />

Her most recent research focus is a methodological analysis of how<br />

Japanese popular culture is treated in the educational institutions of foreign<br />

countries. Her publications include “Perverse Sexuality, Pervasive<br />

Desires: Representations of Female Fantasies and Yaoi Manga as Pornography<br />

Directed at Women” (2003) and “Elegant Caucasians, Amorous<br />

Arabs, and Invisible Others: Signs and Images of Foreigners in Japanese<br />

BL Manga” (2009).<br />

Igor Prusa is a PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary<br />

Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is<br />

a graduate in Japanese and German philology from Palacky University,<br />

Czech Republic, and is simultaneously conducting research at the<br />

Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Charles University,<br />

Prague. His interest lies in Japanese media and the role of various mediation<br />

processes within Japanese society. He regularly publishes in Czech<br />

academic journals (Prague Social Science Studies, Novy Orient, Pritomnost)<br />

and is an active music composer/performer.

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