An alphabetical list of people worth relevant to Japanese game culture.
Game Studies
A list of people research games and game culture in Japan and abroad
- Baba, Akira
- First President of DiGRA Japan, Baba is a professor at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (http://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/) and a member of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. His Babalab has a site at http://chi.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ (Japanese)
- Galbraith, Patrick W.
- Author of the Otaku Encyclopedia, Galbraith has also written scholarly articles on the Maid Café phenomenon and Akihabara. He is a journalist in Japan who is one of the best interpreters of otaku culture in English. For his background see http://seattle.metblogs.com/2009/08/19/king-of-the-fans-patrick-w-galbraith-on-manga-anime-and-otaku/ .
Game Designers and Industry People
- Miyamoto, Shigeru
- Lead game designer at Nintendo who was responsible for such hits as Donkey Kong and Zelda. Possibly the most famous game designer ever. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto
Others
- Takashi, Murakami
- Artist who draws on Japanese pop culture and comments on it.
- Tezuka, Osamu
- A manga and anime pioneer who reinvented the industry after the war. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka
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