Mangajin No. 54
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| Mangajin No.54 | |
| Published April 1996 | |
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| Cover by Kazuko | |
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Contents |
Features
16 Scandal, Japan Style
A never-ending parade of scandals marches through the Japanese media, playing to a rapt audience, by William Marsh
58 Gaijin Celeberties in Japanese Ads
Jodie Foster selling cars? It's true, and she's no the only Western star selling products in Japan who wouldn't dream of doing so in the US, by David Lazarus
Departments
5 Publisher's Note
8 Letters & Bloopers
11 Brand News (Innovative uses of the Japanese language)
A savings bank that flips its lid
13 Senryu
Humorous haiku, by the people
15 Political Cartoon
The Ministry of Health and Welfare suffers a painful remedy for coverups of the past, manga by Yamada Shin
62 Book Review
Karen Ma bashes myths about cross-cultural romance in The Modern Madam Butterfly, review by Ginny Skord Waters
63 On the Bookshelf
Recently released books about Japan
66 Computer Corner
Spectra-Kanji: a kanji-learning program that takes a different approach, review by Ed L. Balli
70 Cooking Corner
Low-calorie, fat-free, and full of nutrients, wakame is the perfect food for health-concious '90s-and it tastes great too, by Robbie Swinnerton
94 Basic Japanese
Genki: Health in body and soul
101 Vocabulary Summary
102 Classifieds
Manga
25 Kasai no Hito Judge Ishimine meets the strange man in the garden, by Mohri Jinpachi & Uoto Osamu
40 Manga Shorts Spring into the season with Obatarian (Hotta Katsuhiko), OL Shinkaron (Akizuki Risu), Akogare Depa-Gyaru (Onuma Kaoru) and Nippon Cha-Cha-Cha (Yamazaki Kosuke)
50 Kono Hito ni Kakero Banker Harashima Hiromi reveals her daring vision for the future of Shinwa Enterprises, by Shu Ryoka & Yumeno Kazuko
73 Otoko wa Tsurai Yo The day has come for Tora-san to meet his prospective wife. Will he screw it up? By Yomada Yoji
90 Garfield by Jim Davis
91 Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson
