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95 Bevan K. Y. Chuang and Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal, “Loli-Pop in Auckland: Engaging Asian
Communities and Audiences through the Museum”, Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology & Cultural
Studies 5, no. 2 (November – December 2008), pp. 94 – 95.
96 Bevan K. Y. Chuang and Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal, “Loli-Pop in Auckland: Engaging Asian
Communities and Audiences through the Museum”, Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology & Cultural
Studies 5, no. 2 (November – December 2008), p. 95; citing Yuniya Kawamura, “Japanese Street
Fashion: The Urge To Be Seen, and To Be Heard”, in The Fashion Reader, eds. Linda Welters and
Abby Lillethun (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007), p. 343.
97 Joseph L. Dela Peña, “Otaku: Images and Identity in Flux”, CUREJ: College Undergraduate Research
Electronic Journal (2006), p. 17.
98 Alan Scott Pate, Ningyō: The Art of the Japanese Doll (Hong Kong: Tuttle, 2005), p. 18.
99 Susan Pearce, op. cit., p. 188.
100 Ibid., p. 174.
101 Ibid., p. 205.
102 Ibid.
103 See Yuri Kageyama, “Cute is King for the Youth of Japan, but It’s Only Skin Deep”, The New
Zealand Herald, June 16, 2006.
104 Yuko Hasegawa, “Post-identity Kawaii: Commerce, Gender and Contemporary Japanese Art”, in
Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art, ed. Fran Lloyd (London: Reaktion, 2002), p. 127.
105 Masafumi Monden, “Transcultural Flow of Demure Aesthetics: Examining Cultural
Globalisation through Gothic & Lolita Fashion”, New Voices 2 (December 2008), p. 25; citing
Inuhiko Yomota, Kawaii Ron (Theory of Cuteness) (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 2006), p. 42.
106 Donald Richie, The Image Factory: Fads & Fashions in Japan (London: Reaktion, 2003), p. 53.
107 Hiroshi Aoyagi, “Pop Idols and Gender Contestation”, in Japan at the Millennium: Joining Past and
Future, ed. David W. Edgington (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003), p. 148.
108 Ibid.
109 Ibid.
110 Yuko Hasegawa, op. cit., p. 128.
111 Hiroshi Aoyagi, op. cit., p. 148.
112 Donald Richie, op. cit., p. 54.
113 Ginny Parker, “Parasols and Pink Lace: Japan’s Lolita Girls; ‘I’d Like to Go Back in Time, Like
to the Era of Marie Antoinette’, says 24-year-old-Nurse”, The Globe and Mail, September 24, 2004.
114 Yuri Kageyama, “Cute is King for the Youth of Japan, but It’s Only Skin Deep”, The New
Zealand Herald, June 16, 2006.
115 Ibid.; and Yuri Kageyama, “Can’t Get Enough Fluff?: Infantile Japan seen Redlining Cute
Gauge”, The Japan Times, June 21, 2006.
116 Yuri Kageyama, “Cute is King”.
117 Ilya Garger, “One Nation Under Cute”, Psychology Today 40, no. 2 (March – April 2007), p. 32.
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