The Anime Boom in the United States: lessons for global creative industries
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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 141 References Ehrhardt, G., Klein, A., McLaughlin, L., & Reed, S. (Eds). (2014). Kōmeitō: Politics and religion in Japan. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies. Machacek, D., & Wilson, B. (Eds). (2000). Global citizens: The Soka Gakkai Buddhist movement in the world. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Seager, R. B. (2006). Encountering the dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the globalization of Buddhism humanism. Berkeley: University of California Press. Mark Teeuwen University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway m.j.teeuwen@ikos.uio.no © 2019 Mark Teeuwen https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2019.1671662 Michal Daliot-Bul and Nissim Otmazgin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asian Center (Distributed by Harvard University Press), 2017, xvii, 212 pp. + notes, glossary, index, ISBN 9780674976993, Hardback US$39.95 This volume extends and develops an aspect of anime studies that is usually peripheral to the plethora of analyses rooted in media and cultural studies. These works often focus on the contents of and various themes and representations within anime productions. By contrast, this excellent volume analyzes what may be termed the organizational and entrepreneurial infrastructure of the anime industry. It does this through a perspective that concentrates on the key actors – the firms, agents, sponsors, and boosters – that factor in the way anime is