TANIKAWA Takeshi is Visiting professor of film history and popular culture studies at the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University (Tokyo), and a well-known freelance cinema journalist and film critic for more than two decades. After working for Nippon Herald Film Co. for eight years as publicity staff and marketing director, he has worked both in academia and journalism. His thesis won the prestigious First Kyoto Film Culture Award in 1999, which later become his dissertation for a PhD in sociology at Hitotsubashi University (2001) and was published by Kyoto University Press as American Films and the Occupation Policy (2002).
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Baseball in Occupied JapanTANIKAWA Takeshi
How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in...How was baseball used to promote U.S. values in occupied Japan? The first post-war Japanese professional baseball game was held on November 23, 1945, just 100 days after the end of World War II. D... -
Cultural Politics around East Asian Cinema 1939-2018SUDO Noriko, TANIKAWA Takeshi
This book examines the interdependent relations...This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in East Asia, treating films as political economic products, mixtures of government policy and industrial...
