A political scientist in training, Prof. Nissim Otmazgin’s research interests include Japanese popular culture in Asia, popular culture and regionalization in East and Southeast Asia, Japan-Southeast Asian relations, and cultural industry and cultural policy in Japan and South Korea.
He is currently working on two books on Japan’s cultural diplomacy in Asia in historical perspective, and a comparative between the development of the Korean and Japanese media industries and their expansion into markets abroad in the past three decades.
nissim.otmazgin@mail.huji.ac.il