By Susan Tennant
A tender lady of 24 trigger by myself in 1918 to stroll the 1400 kilometre pilgrimage direction round the island of Shikoku. Her dream of a solitary trip ended while an outdated guy of seventy three met early on her trip insisted that he accompany her as servant and protector simply because he believed that she was once an attendant of Kannon Bosatsu. This publication is her account in their impressive reviews through the 5 month trip. The a hundred and five newspaper articles that she wrote whereas making her pilgrimage made her a star in Japan. In later years the lady, Takamure Itsue, grew to become renowned in Japan as a poet, highbrow, pupil, historian, feminist and anarchist.
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I interviewed more than 110 people who work for tv stations, in the music industry, and for publishing companies and advertising agencies in Tokyo, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. The interviews posed questions concerning the promotion and reception of both Japanese popular culture in East Asia and of Southeast Asian popular culture in Japan. , coproduced by Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In addition, I conducted informal, in-depth interviews with eighteen female and three male viewers (whose ages ranged from seventeen to the late twenties) concerning Japanese tv dramas in Taipei, and with twenty-four female ‘‘fans’’ (whose ages ranged from the early-twenties to the fifties) concerning Hong Kong films and pop music singers in Tokyo.
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