Cover -- Contents -- A Note to the Reader -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Frameworks of Teaching and Researching Japanese Animation -- Some Thoughts on the Research Essays and Commentary -- Section One: Animation Studies and Animation History in Japan -- A Bipolar Approach to Understanding the History of Japanese Animation -- Reflections on the Wan Brothers' Letter to Japan: The Making of Princess Iron Fan -- On the Establishment and the History of the Japan Society for Animation Studies -- More on the History of the Japan Society for Animation Studies: Historic Essentials of Animation Studies -- Section Two: Pioneers of Japanese Animation -- Chiyogami, Cartoon, Silhouette: The Transitions of Ōfuji Noburō -- The Japanese Walt Disney: Masaoka Kenzo -- Animating for "Whom" in the Aftermath of a World War -- Section Three: Popular Culture, East-West Expressions, and Tezuka Osamu -- Tezuka and Takarazuka: Intertwined Roots of Japanese Popular Culture -- Growing Up with Astro Boy and Mazinger Z: Industrialization, "High-Tech World," and Japanese Animation in the Art and Culture of South Korea -- From Haiku and Handscroll to Tezuka: Refocusing Space and Camera in the Narrative of Animation -- Section Four: Female Characters and Transnational Identities -- Grotesque Cuteness of Shōjo: Representations of Goth-Loli in Japanese Contemporary TV Anime -- Animated Interracial Romantic Fantasies: Japanese Male and Non-Japanese Female Characters -- Section Five: Artistic Animation and Expression in Japan -- 3-D Computer Graphics: Creating and Teaching Professional Animated Techniques in Innocence and Doraemon -- Animation and Psychology: The Midlife Crisis of Kawamoto Kihachiro -- Section Six: Japan's First Commercial Animation Studio after the Second World War: Toei -- The Background of the Making of Flying Phantom Ship-Hiroshi Ikeda -- Appendix 1.

Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.