IIAS Newsletter 47 Spring 2008

From science fictional Japan to Japanese science fiction

Chris Goto-Jones

Science fiction provides us with more than a glimpse of futurist visions, it allows us to probe questions of cultural history, politics and socio-economic change in societies. Chris Goto-Jones reveals his fascination for this sub-culture and Japan’s long and mutating relations with ‘weird-science’.

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