Contemporary Japan

1999 - 2026

Current editor(s): Isaac Gagni

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Message from the editor-in-chief pp. 1-2: Franz Waldenberger
Rainbows and Ratings: Assessing indices of LGBTQ+ inclusivity in the Japanese workplace pp. 3-29: Annika Clasen and Harald Conrad
Perks or burdens? Being “nearly (im)mobile” as IT foreign professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan pp. 30-51: Aimi Muranaka
Leadership in crisis: Comparing Prime Minister Abe’s and Chancellor Merkel’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic pp. 52-73: Alisa Gaunder and Sarah Wiliarty
Portraying the refugee crisis: The framing of Afghan, Burmese, and Ukrainian asylum seekers in Japanese print media pp. 74-96: Mei Mitsui and David Green
The Bibliography of Post-War Documentary Literature: Processing war and defeat in post-World War II Japan pp. 97-108: Sejin Jeong
Workers’ uprising: Japanese factories and labor movements in Thailand during the Pacific War pp. 109-135: Katsuyuki Takahashi
Women and martial art in Japan pp. 136-139: Wolfram Manzenreiter

Message from the Managing Editor pp. 149-149: Isaac Gagné
Addressing the Shinto establishment: “Faith talk” and “God talk” in political rhetoric in contemporary Japan pp. 150-168: Ernils Larsson
Elder statesman as a jack-of-all-trades: The case of Satō Eisaku in 1970s Japan pp. 169-193: Taro Tsuda
The (Im)possibility of ideal education: Hope, uncertainty, and being safe in a Korean international school in Japan pp. 194-213: Kunisuke Hirano
Buraku women, literacy as a path to empowerment pp. 214-231: Chiara Fusari
Strategies for creative job-seeking after retirement in Japan pp. 232-254: Kazue Haga
Fantasy strolling beyond the stage: A study of fan-culture geography of the Takarazuka Revue pp. 255-277: Zuzanna Baraniak-Hirata
Yukikaze’s war: The unsinkable Japanese destroyer and World War II in the Pacific pp. 278-281: Samuel P. Porter
Reconsidering Postwar Japanese history: A handbook pp. 281-283: Florian Coulmas

Message from the editor-in-chief pp. 1-2: Franz Waldenberger
Digital work across the divide: Japan’s platform economy and labour market dualisation pp. 3-29: Deborah Giustini
A subaltern civil war: Precariat in-fighting in Murakami Ryu’s Popular Hits of the Showa Era pp. 30-50: Barbara Greene
Newspaper reports and the peaceful use of nuclear power from 1945 to 1963: An analysis of Japan’s Asahi and Yomiuri Shimbun pp. 51-67: Jincao Wang
Railways as Japanese identity: Riding between confidence and inexperience pp. 68-87: Taku Tamaki
Multiculturalism between ideology and practice: Immigrant self-narrations of community activism in Toyota, Japan pp. 88-109: Scott Ma and Mariana Alonso Ishihara
Explaining important public contests in Japan: Rhetorical strategies, causality, and populism pp. 110-136: Petter Y. Lindgren
The Samurai and the Cross: The Jesuit enterprise in early modern Japan pp. 137-141: Sophie Takahashi
Nuclear Minds: Cold War psychological science and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki pp. 141-143: Florian Coulmas
Japanese art in perspective: East-West encounters pp. 143-146: Philippe Bürgin
Die Geschichte des japanischen Wirtschaftsstandortes Düsseldorf [The History of Düsseldorf as a Business Location for Japanese Companies] pp. 146-148: Jonathan Krautter

Message from the managing editor pp. 157-158: Isaac Gagné
What is the true impact of an apology? pp. 159-180: Jane Crawford Munro
The origins of income equality with a small government in Japan: An analysis of the formation of Japanese-style income policy in 1975 pp. 181-199: Ryotaro Takahashi
The politics of depopulation in Japanese municipalities: Ideas and underlying ideologies pp. 200-221: Ken Victor Leonard Hijino
Politics of inclusive consultation?: How the voices of disabled people’s rights and feminist campaigners prevailed in the debate on new eugenics in Japan pp. 222-242: Silvia Croydon
Writing back to the Capitalocene: Radioactive foodscapes in Japan’s Post-3/11 literature pp. 243-260: Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Aidana Bolatbekkyzy
Between regional cooperation and strategic reorganization: An examination of the change in perceptions in Japanese security policy pp. 261-279: David Adebahr
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration pp. 280-284: Ernils Larsson
Kyoto’s Renaissance: Ancient Capital for Modern Japan pp. 285-288: Elisabetta Porcu
Active pursuit of pregnancy: Neoliberalism, postfeminism and the politics of reproduction in contemporary Japan pp. 288-291: Nora Kottmann
Robots won’t save Japan: An ethnography of eldercare automation pp. 291-293: Hanno Jentzsch

Message from the editor-in-chief pp. 1-2: Franz Waldenberger
Introduction to the special issue: Art and regional revitalization - case studies from Japan pp. 3-6: Barbara Geilhorn
Art festivals in Japan: Fueling revitalization, tourism, and self-censorship pp. 7-19: Eimi Tagore
Art tourism and paradigms of island revitalization in Japan pp. 20-40: Carolin Funck and Meng Qu
From social issue to art site and beyond – reassessing rural akiya kominka pp. 41-56: Anemone Platz
Performance enacting mobility and shifting borders – the global countryside? pp. 57-69: Peter Eckersall and Tom Looser
Motherhood discourses and political activism in post-3.11 movements in Japan pp. 70-85: Rosemary Soliman Dawood
Narrating against dominance: Women and organized crime in Japanese discourse and popular culture pp. 86-102: Erik Ropers
Conscription insurance in pre-war Japan - Private enterprise and national interest pp. 103-125: YingYing Jiang
The Johnny’s sex abuse scandal and the role of media in Japan pp. 126-144: Igor Prusa
Japan’s nationalist right in the internet age: Online media and grassroots conservative activism pp. 145-148: Yuki Asahina
Cultural manifold analysis on national character pp. 148-150: Florian Coulmas
Immigrant Japan: mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society pp. 150-153: Gabriele Vogt
Karma and punishment: Prison chaplaincy in Japan pp. 153-156: Timothy Benedict