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The technologies depicted in the Ring films range from library books and oversized archival volumes to phones and cameras, from televisions and videotapes to computers, photocopiers, and high-tech equipment found in archives and electronic media labs. In both the Japanese film and its American remake, Reiko/ Rachel’s professional status as journalists thrusts them into close contact with an array of technologies and makes several forms of media readily available to them as they investigate the origins of the killer videotape.
A Brief History of Japanese Parapsychology During the Meiji period (1868–1912) western scientific methods were gradually being transplanted into Japan. 14 When Enryo Inoue founded the Philosophical Institute or “Tetsugaku Kan” (the predecessor of Tokyo University), he was firmly committed to eliminating superstitious thought. html. 14 Tatsuya and Takao Sato, “The Early 20th Century: Shaping the Discipline of Psychology in Japan,” Japanese Psychological Research, 47/2 (2005): p. 60. 15 Many Japanese intellectuals were disappointed by western rationalism, however, and they looked instead for alternative ways to explain the conditions of human existence.
The term “channeling,” which was employed for both occult and technological media, See, for example, Werner Sollors, “Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s Celestial Telegraph, or Indian Blessings to Gas-Lit American Drawing Rooms,” Social Science Information, 22/6 (1983): p. 991; John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 94; Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000), p.