http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/12/13/keitai-novels-spread-to-smartphones-stopped/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/12/13/keitai-novels-spread-to-smartphones-stopped/comment-page-1/#comment-243097 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:48:17 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=3533#comment-243097 Keitai novels are almost exclusively written by people in the yankii subculture with themes reflective of non-Tokyo yankii lifestyles. (Check out the Kenro Hayamizu book 携帯小説的). It makes perfect sense that smartphone users — mostly male Tokyo professionals — wouldn’t be interested in reading about the rape/abortion trauma of a 16 year-old girl from Ibaraki.

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