MANGA, ANIME AND VIDEO GAMES: GLOBALIZING JAPANESE CULTURAL PRODUCTION

摘要

This special issue of Perspectives is devoted to translation questions arising from the globalization of the Japanese popular cultural production of manga, anime and video games. In his article Japan's Gross National Cool, McGray (2002) drew attention to the collective power of Japanese popular culture permeating through the rest of the world. His observations highlight the globalization process undergone by these areas of Japanese cultural production and as such serve to raise the question of the role played by translation - a topic little explored in Translation Studies (TS). Widespread popularity of these genres beyond Japanese shores is evident in that the Japanese terms manga and anime together with associated but rather obscure culture-specific concepts such as otaku have come into the vocabulary of an increasing international audience.