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Satoshi Ota
Satoshi Ota is a professor at Tama University, School of Global Studies. He received a Ph.D. in social anthropology from University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS); an MA in social anthropology of Japan from Oxford Brookes University; and a postgraduate diploma in social anthropology from University of Manchester. Satoshi Ota spent about two years in Taiwan conducting research on the presence of Japanese popular culture in Taiwan. The research was published under the title: The Ambiguous Lightness of Being: Taiwanese Youth, Identity, and Consumption of Japanese Youth Culture (Shubhi Publications, 2009). He received a scholarship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and is affiliated with the University of Delhi as a postdoctoral research fellow. His research areas include popular culture, consumption and consumerism, youth culture, identity construction, globalization, nationalism, Japan, Taiwan and North-East India.
Contact: School of Global Studies, Tama University, 802 Engyo, Fujisawa City, Kanagawa 252-0805, Japan.