Katsuyuki Hidaka is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. He is also a professorial research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, from which he received his Ph.D. degree. His publications include Japanese Media at the Beginning of the twenty-first century: Consuming the Past (Routledge 2017), a winner of the Japan Communication Association Best Book Award.