The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan by Chikako Ozawa-de Silva (review)

discourses, and social dynamics, and the cases Lukács presents reveal the amateurish, faddish, and exploitative characteristics of Japan’s cultural industries, even though they can also be meaningful to consumers and those performers. While this phenomenon may not be unique to Japan, Lukács’s close-up on these dynamics and her critical analysis strongly contribute to the scholarship on gender, class, and work, and they add nuance to the discussion of the digital economy and cultural industries while highlighting the urgent need for media literacy in Japan’s ever-expanding digitally mediated economy.