Mangajin No. 55
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| Mangajin No.55 | |
| Published May 1996 | |
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| Cover by Kazuko | |
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Contents |
Features
16 Living with Earthquakes
Despite last year's devastating earthquake in Kobe, the Japanese maintain an escapist attitude regarding their country's precarious position above unruly tectonic plates, by Catherine Rubinstein
58 Americomi: Japan's Latest Fad
Chrysler, take note! A masterful marketing strategy has propelled the success of America's newest export to Japan: comic heroes, by John Storey
70 What in the World is Going on with the Japanese Economy?
No one really knows where the Japanese economy is headed, but that doesn't necessarily mean the individual investor should sit back and wait, by John H. Christy
Departments
5 Publisher's Note
8 Letters & Bloopers
11 Brand News (Innovative uses of the Japanese language)
Flying noodles put Japanese businessmen at ease
13 Senryu
Humorous haiku, by the people
62 Book Review
Deborah Boehm tells all, and then some, in A Zen Romance, review by Laura Silverman
63 On the Bookshelf
Recently released books about Japan
66 Video Review
The Mystery of Rampo is a veritable feast for the senses, review by Terra Brockman
94 Basic Japanese
Erai: A matter of great importance
101 Vocabulary Summary
102 Classifieds
Manga
25 Kasai no Hito Judge Ishimine and his wife have a spat, by Mohri Jinpachi & Uoto Osamu
38 Manga Shorts Warning: there are puns aplenty in our selections from Sekkachi-kun (Tanaka Sho), Ponpoko Kacho (Hashimoto Iwao) and Boku-chin Yutosei (Kitami Jiro)
46 Kono Hito ni Kakero Will banker Harashima Hiromi's daring proposal finally get her the Shinwa Enterprises account? By Shu Ryoka & Yumeno Kazuko
73 Kochira Kameari Koen-mae Hashutsujo Officer at a Tokyo police box come face to face with a child of the information age, by Akimoto Osamu
92 Garfield by Jim Davis
93 Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson
