Nissim Otmazgin

Dr. Nissim Otmazgin is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include popular culture and regionalization in Asia, cultural industry and cultural policy in Japan and Korea. He is the author of Regionalizing Culture: the Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia (University of Hawai’i Press, 2013), and co-editor (with Eyal Ben-Ari) of Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2012) and Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia (NUS Press and Kyoto University Press, 2013). His recent book (edited with Rebecca Suter), is titled Stories for the Nation: Rewriting History in Manga (Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming).