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Globalization of Japanese Culture Seen through the Publication Youn Ju Moon (Ajou University) This paper aims to present problems of western-oriented Japanese culture that has been deepened since Japan's modernization. In order to do that, it is examined first that the process and present condition of globalizing Japanese culture in terms of the translation of publications and its international distribution. Discussions on the contemporary globalization propose overcoming the western- oriented cultural trend with a reflection on the modernity. It becomes more possible in the world that the new public sphere transcending a nation-state is formed through digital media which are bilateral, dynamic, mobile, and deterritorial. ‘The publication network of East Asia,’ formed due to digitation of publication in this new trend of globalization, is significant in the following three senses; ⅰ) the share the Asian humanities, ⅱ) the emergence of a new public sphere which intends to globalize the Asian humanities, and ⅲ) a case of the transnational practice of Asian culture.