Karl Ian Uy CHENG CHUA is Professorial Lecturer at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines – Diliman. He has received his Masters in Japanese Studies from the National University of Singapore and his Ph.D in Social Sciences from Hitotsubashi University. He part of the editorial board of Social Science Diliman, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture and Comics Studies: Aesthetics, Histories, and Practices. He is also the country representative of the Japanese Studies Association of Southeast Asia (JSA-ASEAN).