Asada (surname)
Asada (written: or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese critic and curator *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese astronomer *, pen name of Kojirō Iwato (岩戸 康次郎), Japanese writer *, Japanese figure skater *, Japanese figure skater *, Japanese actress and singer *, Japanese darts player *, Japanese voice actress {{surname Japanese-language surnames ...
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Akira Asada
is a Japanese postmodern critic and curator, whose interests include contemporary arts, the history of social thought, and economic philosophy. He is currently the Dean of the Graduate School at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. Until March 2008, he served as an associate professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Research at Kyoto University (KIER). Asada is widely recognized as the author of the bestselling book, "構造と力─記号論を超えて (''Structure and Power: Beyond Semiotics'')", which was published in 1983. He holds a position as a member of the supervisory committee at NTT InterCommunication Center, and was a co-editor of a Japanese quarterly journal Hihyōkūkan (''Critical Space'') with Kojin Karatani is a Japanese philosopher and literary critic. Biography Karatani entered the University of Tokyo in 1960, where he joined the radical Marxist Communist League, better known as "The Bund," and participated in the massive 1960 Anpo protests ...
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