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A History of Manga in the Context of Japanese Culture and Society

First published: 11 January 2005
Cited by: 22

Kinko Ito received her BA from Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. She received her MA and PhD in sociology from The Ohio State University. She is a full professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Gerontology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her e‐mail address is kxito@ualr.edu.

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Number of times cited: 22

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