Western Washington University Masthead Logo Western CEDAR Anthropology Faculty and Staff ubP lications Anthropology 2016 “What Doraemon, the Earless Blue Robot Cat from the 22nd Century, Can Teach Us About How Japan’s Elderly and Their umH an Caregivers Might Live with Emotional Care Robots.” Robert C. Marshall Western Washington University,
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[email protected] Abstract Structural analysis of the phenomenally popular and enduring Japanese anime Doraemon helps us think about what we might hope to see in the not too distant future from Japan’s promised