Outside GHQ: the union democratization movement in occupied Japan 1947–1948

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Technoscientific speculations: the anti-mimeticism of Japanese science fiction in the literary context of the late Meiji period

2024-8-4

Hey! Say Ishin: Ōmae Ken’ichi’s and Hashimoto Tōru’s policy entrepreneurship and the neoliberal reorientation of contemporary Ishin politics

2024-8-1

<i>Demarcating Japan: Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855-1884</i> Takahiro Yamamoto, <i>Demarcating Japan: Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855-1884</i> , Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, MA and London, 2023, 266 pp.

2024-7-23

Navigating cultural diversity in Japanese maternity care: An overview of the experiences of non-Japanese women and a path to improvement

2024-7-4

<i>Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan’s Empire</i> Wendy Matsumura, Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan’s Empire, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2023, pp. 267.

2024-7-1

Shakaijin, shadow education, &amp; the entrepreneurial self: fabricating personhood in neoliberal Japan

2024-6-20

<i>Eight Dogs, or Hakkenden, Part Two—His Master’s Blade</i> Kyokutei Bakin, <i>Eight Dogs, or Hakkenden, Part Two—His Master's Blade</i> , Glynne Walley, trans., Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2024, 546 pp.

2024-6-17

Touching the Unreachable. Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Nr. 91Fusako Innami, Touching the Unreachable. Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Nr. 91, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2021, 240 pp.

2024-6-10

<i>The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan</i> Hansen, G. M and Gygi, F (eds), <i>The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan</i> , Northern Institute of Asian Studies Press, Copenhagen, 2022, 236 pp.

2024-5-29

<i>Ay-Ō: Happy Rainbow Hell</i> Kit Brooks, <i>Ay-Ō: Happy Rainbow Hell</i> , Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, 2023, 158 pp.

2024-5-16

The Beginning of Despair: Aggressive Retsuko and the Sanrioization of Women’s ‘Transgressive Rage’

2024-5-11

Tokyo Jazz JointsPhilip Arneill and James Catchpole, <i>Tokyo Jazz Joints</i> , Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2023, 168 pp.

2024-4-27

Tearing through the screen: diegetic credits, dialogic media, and fictional reality in Kon Satoshi’s <i>Paprika</i>

2024-4-10

The commodification of romance in relation to fertility rate in Japan: a case study in Tokunoshima

2024-3-23

<i>Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, film, and transnational politics</i> Yuko Shibata, Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2018, 162 pp. ISBN-13: 9780824867775, $80.00

2024-2-6

External ideas or traditional values? A reappraisal of Japanese ‘neoliberal’ reforms

2023-12-18

Mixed Japanese identities and multiculturalism

2023-11-30

Japan’s digital diaspora: social capital, health, and public communication in <i>r/japanlife</i>

2023-10-23

<i>Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life,</i> Annmaria M. Shimabuku, <i>Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life,</i> Fordham University Press, New York, 2019, 219 pp.

2023-10-9

Rethinking Locality in JapanSonja Ganseforth and Hanno Jentzsch (eds.), Rethinking Locality in Japan, Nissan Institute/Routledge, Oxon and NY, 2022, 288 pp.

2023-9-30

Urban Ambiguity: Modernist Descriptions in Kajii Motojirō

2023-9-14

Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan

2023-8-21

Lorraine Plourde, <i>Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City</i>,

2023-8-17

Suzuki Izumi’s Escape from the World of Women

2023-8-8

A silent fight to challenge the norm in Matsuda Aoko’s ‘Sutakkingu Kanō’ (2012)

2023-8-8

Becoming inauthentic: capitalism, commodification, and performance in Wataya risa’s <i>Insutōru</i>

2023-8-8

Capitalism, Alienation, and Transgression in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction

2023-8-8

In the Mood for Kimono: Hayashi Mariko and the Weaving of Japanese Fashion into Popular Fiction

2023-8-8

Double truth: employment insecurity and gender inequality in Japan’s neoliberal promotion of side jobs

2023-7-28

<i>Parallel Modernism. Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan</i>

2023-7-12

<i>Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster</i> Rachel DiNitto, <i>Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster</i> , University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, HI, 2019, 228 pp.

2023-7-3

<i>Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait</i> Andrew Rankin, <i>Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait</i> , University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2018, 212 pp.

2023-6-30

<i>How Dark Is My Flower: Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love</i> Leith Morton, <i>How Dark Is My Flower: Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love</i> , University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2023, 403 pp.

2023-6-30

Rachael Hutchinson, <i>Japanese Culture Through Videogames</i>,

2023-6-12

Paratopia: anime, school clubs, and the aims of education

2023-6-1

<i>Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity</i>

2023-5-29

<i>The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo</i> M.W. Shores, <i>The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo</i> , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2021, 261 p.

2023-5-18

Throwing Ideology Away: Yoshimoto Takaaki’s Theory of <i>Taishū</i> and Terayama Shūji’s Film Parody of the People

2023-5-8

COVID-19 and mandatory telework: effects on gender roles and work family conflicts among Japanese dual-career regular employees with children

2023-4-27

Between the ideal and reality: two conceptions of idealism in early Meiji Japan

2023-3-10

Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan

2023-2-19

<i>Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo</i>

2023-1-30

Monsters, Animals, and other Worlds. A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese TalesKeller Kimbrough and Shirane Haruo, <i>Monsters, Animals, and other Worlds. A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales</i> , Columbia University Press, New York, 2018, pp. 443

2023-1-30

Scaling up? Remaking Kurosawa’s <i>The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress</i>

2023-1-1

<i>Gekijōban</i> (theatrical version) anime as feature films in anime franchising

2023-1-1

From sequel to series: the effects of ‘Medium-Jumping’ on narrative in <i>Umizaru</i> (2004–2012)

2023-1-1

Star, Scorpion, and the Snowblood: Kaji Meiko’s multiplicities and the Japanese culture industry

2023-1-1

Serial Filmmaking in Japan: Introduction

2023-1-1

Book review

2022-12-7