Hiroki Azuma: The philosopher of 'otaku' speaks By Matthew Chozick and Akane Suzuki TOKYO — Familiar scenario: you’re going to be marooned on an island and you can only bring X number of books with you. If that island happens to be part of the Japanese archipelago, you could do a lot worse than schlepping a copy of Hiroki Azuma’s “Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals.” First published in Japanese nine