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Globalization and Japan is usually connected with the oft researched policy of “Cool Japan.” Impressions on the policy is that it emphasizes popular culture, particularly anime and manga, as the media that promotes this movement. Studies have primarily focused on the successes of the policy, and slightly, on its failures. This course aims to fill the gap, by shifting the focus from Japan, to its recipients. Furthermore, the course will focus on the "afterlife"; of these cultures and how Japan is (re-) imagined in the recipient/consuming countries.