Orientalism and Reactionary Ideologies in Video Games w/ Kazuma Hashimoto and Andrew Kiya

Kota is joined by Kazuma Hashimoto and Andrew Kiya to discuss the Ghost of Tsushima, its fetishization of the samurai through a misinterpretation of Kurosawa Akira's films, Cyberpunk 2077, how Orientalism and the idealization of Japan in these games (re-packaged and exported abroad through the Japanese state's "Cool Japan" initiative) enable the far right pro-imperialist politics both in ideology and practice. We specifically discuss the recent attempt by the Japanese far right to shut...