Oxford Brookes Library has thousands of ebooks available to read, wherever you are. But it’s not always easy to know where to start.

To complement your module reading lists, we’re gathering together great ebooks you may not have seen yet, on a range of themes.

Here are five ebooks on Japanese contemporary culture, available to all Oxford Brookes students and staff:

• Fandom unbound : otaku culture in a connected world edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Izumi Tsuji.
• Japanese robot culture : performance, imagination, and modernity by Yuji Sone.
• Japanese visual culture : explorations in the world of manga and anime edited by Mark W. MacWilliams.
• Japanese design : art, aesthetics & culture by Patricia J. Graham.
• Routledge handbook of Japanese culture and society edited by Victoria Lyon Bester and Theodore C. Bestor, with Akiko Yamagata.

You can find other books and ebooks on this topic on LibrarySearch.

Don’t forget to explore The Five Ebooks You Need on other topics!