Contemporary Japan

1999 - 2025

Current editor(s): Isaac Gagni

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Volume 37, issue 1, 2025

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

Volume 36, issue 2, 2024

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

Volume 36, issue 1, 2024

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

Volume 35, issue 2, 2023

Message from the managing editor pp. 171-172

Isaac Gagné

Introduction to special section: ‘Gender, family and work in the 21st century: Challenges and transformations’ pp. 173-174

Glenda S. Roberts

The masculinization of deprivation: Transformations in industrial and labor patterns and the emergence of the Men’s Crisis in Japan pp. 175-196

Kimio Itō and Allison Alexy

Autonomy and responsibility: Women’s life and career choices in urban Japan pp. 197-213

Vincent Mirza

The work, family and care nexus in Paris and Tokyo: Gender equality and well-being among urban professionals pp. 214-247

Glenda S. Roberts and Hiroko Costantini

Redesigning What is National: The Politics of Education and the New Moral Education Initiative in Globalizing Japan pp. 248-269

Kazuya Fukuoka

Robotic devices and ICT in long-term care in Japan: Their potential and limitations from a workplace perspective pp. 270-290

Gabriele Vogt and Anne-Sophie L. König

Urban migrants in rural Japan: Between agency and anomie in a post-growth society pp. 291-293

Antonia Miserka

Education and social justice in Japan pp. 293-297

Peter Cave

Censorship in Japan pp. 297-299

Alexandra Hambleton

Volume 35, issue 1, 2023

Message from the editor-in-chief pp. 1-2

Franz Waldenberger

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Between dream and contention pp. 3-15

David Chiavacci and Iris Wieczorek

The 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympics: Does Japan get the gold medal or the wooden spoon? pp. 16-34

Paul O’Shea and Sebastian Maslow

Online political communication about the Tokyo Olympics pp. 35-54

Jonathan Lewis

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics: From a “safe pair of hands” to a corrupt pair of claws pp. 55-57

Jules Boykoff

The capitalist realism of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games pp. 58-72

Yoshifusa Ichii

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and the removal of migrants pp. 73-74

Toake Endoh

“I want to bring this light to those in despair” – the Tokyo 2020 torch relay and the creation of Olympic legacies pp. 75-93

Andreas Niehaus

Protesting legacies: Anti-Olympic movements in Japan before and after Tokyo 2020/1 pp. 94-116

Sonja Ganseforth

Akira and the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and 2020/21: Reading the games through manga and anime—reading manga and anime through the games pp. 117-135

Christian Tagsold

How the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games were embedded in urban planning documents: The enforcement of a metropolitan strategy in the Bay Area pp. 136-157

Alexandre Faure

Children, cement, and catastrophe go well together. Review of Earthquake children: Building resilience from the ruins of Tokyo pp. 158-161

Sabine Frühstück

How a reverse sankin kōtai will change Japan – how to simultaneously aim for work reform and regional revitalization pp. 161-163

Susanne Klien

Drawing the sea near: Satoumi and coral reef conservation in Okinawa pp. 163-166

Sarah Bijlsma

Cosmopolitan rurality, depopulation, and entrepreneurial ecosystems in 21st-century Japan pp. 166-169

Sebastian Polak-Rottmann