Yoshinaga, Ida2014-01-152014-01-152014-01-15http://hdl.handle.net/10125/31897Until recently, scholars viewed popular culture as fast food for satisfying society's palate: cheap, mass-produced, mindlessly consumed, superficially appealing, and, ultimately, bad for the health.54 pagesAll UHM Honors Projects are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner.Popular Culture as a Reflection of Society: Comparing the Japanese Manga to the American Comic BookTerm Project