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Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

Brooke McCorkle Okazaki is an Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. McCorkle Okazaki is the co-author of Japan’s Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaijū Cinema (2018) and the author of Shōnen Knife’s Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll (forthcoming 2020). In the 2019-20 academic year, she received a Japan Foundation Fellowship to live in Tokyo and complete her monograph ‘Searching for Wagner in Japan’.

Dragon Ball in the Time of COVID-19

22 May 202012 May 2020 by Brooke McCorkle Okazaki
Lessons from Dragon Ball

Lessons from Dragon Ball? What can we learn from a nearly forty-year-old anime filled with political incorrectness that was conceived at the peak of Japan’s careening economic boom, before the country’s decades-long economic slump, before the internet, 9/11, 3/11, and before the coronavirus? It …

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