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Opening the Black Box of the 1989 Otaku Discourse (2015) by Björn-Ole Kamm
a chapter in the book Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan

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>The most prominent mode of ordering the Miyazaki Incident and otaku remains reductionism, or cause and effect. Exemplified by the juridical system, the controversy in 1989 and 1990 emphasized the search for a single (maybe multiple, but in any case direct) cause(s) leading to Miyazaki’ crimes. There is no denying that horror videos and lolicon magazines appear as actants in this search. They are introduced as actors by acting on Miyazaki as templates for the murders, which make him act. These non-humans are also treated as symptoms, though, or an expression of the larger problems of society, such as the school system, bullying and bad parenting. If we look at the analysed articles only quantitatively, it is clear that the latter issues received more attention than otaku.