Contemporary Japan

1999 - 2025

Current editor(s): Isaac Gagni

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Volume 31, issue 2, 2019

Message from the managing editor pp. 117-117

Isaac Gagné

Introduction to special section: Emotions and affect in studies on contemporary Japan pp. 118-121

Barbara Holthus

Becoming right-wing citizens in contemporary Japan pp. 122-140

Yūki Asahina

Emotional costs of providing social support to political prisoners pp. 141-158

Patricia G. Steinhoff

“Coming Out” as a family with an LGB member in Japan: Normalizing strategies and negotiating with social norms pp. 159-179

Kotona Motoyama

The roads to disaster, or rewriting history from the margins—Yū Miri’s JR Ueno Station Park Exit pp. 180-196

Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt

The Olympics and Japanese national identity: Multi-layered otherness in Tokyo 2016 and 2020 pp. 197-214

Taku Tamaki

An investigation into the roles of the Katakana syllabary in Japanese discourse: From the perspective of discourse producers’ motivation pp. 215-233

Yumiko Cochrane

The academics and their institutional environment in Japan – A view from outside pp. 234-263

Ulrich Teichler

Being young in super-aging Japan: Formative events and cultural reactions pp. 264-267

Zi Wang

The Japanese adult video industry pp. 268-271

Jamie Coates

The category of religion in contemporary Japan: Shūkyō & Temple Buddhism pp. 271-275

Ernils Larsson

Volume 31, issue 1, 2019

Message from the editor pp. 1-1

Franz Waldenberger

What shapes local demand for ‘guest worker’ migrants in Japan? The case of the seafood processing industry pp. 2-20

Yusuke Mazumi

Six years after: ‘Fukushima memories’ and continued willingness to participate in energy and environmental policy-making process in Japan pp. 21-39

Hidenori Nakamura

Reconstruction machizukuri and negotiating safety in post-3.11 community recovery in Yamamoto pp. 40-60

Pilvi Posio

Becoming Purikyua: Building the lifestyle-text in Japanese girls’ franchises pp. 61-78

Anya C. Benson

Explaining Doraemon’s perduring popularity: Structural analysis, specious technology and mother’s indulgent affection pp. 79-98

Robert C. Marshall

Cool Japan – Case studies from Japan’s cultural and creative industries pp. 99-102

Ronald Saladin

Cool Japanese men: Studying new masculinities at Cambridge pp. 102-105

Elizabeth Miles

Japan–China relations in the modern era pp. 105-107

Robert Hoppens

Destiny: The Secret Operations of the Yodogō Exiles pp. 107-111

John Cussen

Review of spaces in translation – Japanese Gardens and the West pp. 111-116

Wybe Kuitert

Volume 30, issue 2, 2018

Message from the managing editor pp. 143-143

Isaac Gagné

Pop culture contents and historical heritage: The case of heritage revitalization through ‘contents tourism’ in Shiroishi city pp. 144-163

Takayoshi Yamamura

Protecting Japan from immigrants? An ethical challenge to security-based justification in immigration policy pp. 164-188

Johan Rochel

The last suffrage movement in Japan: Voting rights for persons under guardianship pp. 189-203

Sae Okura

Regulating risks in healthcare in Japan: Between new politics and the tradition of liberal practice in medicine pp. 204-226

Naonori Kodate

Prolonging working life in Japan: Issues and practices for elderly employment in an aging society pp. 227-242

Julien Martine and Jacques Jaussaud

Pan-Asian sports and the emergence of modern Asia pp. 243-247

Lee Thompson

Placing empire: travel and the social imagination in imperial Japan pp. 247-250

Andrew Elliott

Japan in Asia: Post-cold-war diplomacy pp. 251-253

André Asplund

Mutual perceptions and images in Japanese–German relations 1860–2010 pp. 253-258

Christian W. Spang

A Japanese Jungian perspective on mental health and culture: wandering madness pp. 258-261

Hara Takahashi

Cutting through the ideology and politics of sacred groves at Shinto Shrines: A book review of Shinto, nature, and ideology in contemporary Japan: Making sacred forests pp. 261-265

John Nelson

Religion in Japanese daily life, by David C. Lewis, Abingdon, UK, Routledge, 2017, viii+ 346 pp., EUR €115 (hardback), ISBN 9781138677982 pp. 265-268

Ian Reader

Review of Care communication: Making a home in a Japanese eldercare facility pp. 269-272

Yoshiko Matsumoto

Volume 30, issue 1, 2018

Message from the Editor pp. 1-2

Franz Waldenberger

The relation between law and technology in Japan: liability for technology-related mass damage in the cases of Minamata disease, asbestos, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster pp. 3-27

Hiroki Kawamura

Ōta Tenrei’s defense of birth control, eugenics and euthanasia pp. 28-42

Astghik Hovhannisyan

Social inclusion of senior citizens in Japan: an investigation into the ‘Community-based Integrated Care System’ pp. 43-59

Nils Dahl

The relationship between education and child welfare in Japanese children’s self-reliance support facilities pp. 60-77

Shunsuke Takada

Reforms to strengthen moral education in Japan: a preliminary analysis of implementation in schools pp. 78-96

Sam Bamkin

Voices from the disaster area: local and regional media in Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures after ‘3.11’ pp. 97-116

Florian Meissner

Normative power Japan: settling for ‘Chinese democracy’ pp. 117-134

Andre Asplund

Trauma, dissociation and re-enactment in Japanese literature and film pp. 135-137

Hosea Hirata

‘History Wars’ and reconciliation in Japan and Korea: the roles of historians, artists and activists pp. 138-141

Juljan Biontino

Volume 29, issue 2, 2017

Corrigendum pp. iii-iii

The Editors

Corrigendum pp. iv-iv

The Editors

Corrigendum pp. v-v

The Editors

Greetings from the Managing Editor pp. 105-105

The Editors

Squared diaspora: Representations of the Japanese diaspora across time and space pp. 106-116

Wolfram Manzenreiter

Immigrant integration through food: Nikkei cuisine in Peru pp. 117-131

Ayumi Takenaka

Rooted-transnationalism and the representational function of food in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms pp. 132-147

Lyle De Souza

Eating Japanese food in diaspora as identity building: The case of a Japanese Canadian church pp. 148-161

Hisako Omori

Making place: Old Japan at the Japanese department store Shirokiya in Honolulu pp. 162-176

Jutta Teuwsen

‘Transmitting the message of Okinawa by drums’: Representations of Japanese-ness and Okinawan-ness in Okinawan dance in Santa Cruz, Bolivia pp. 177-192

Yvonne Siemann

Living under more than one sun: The Nikkei Diaspora in the Americas pp. 193-213

Wolfram Manzenreiter

From ethnic religion to generative selves: Pentecostalism among Nikkei Brazilian migrants in Japan pp. 214-229

Suma Ikeuchi

Intergenerational circular migration and differences in identity building of Nikkei Peruvians pp. 230-245

Ana Sueyoshi

A tree house in Tokyo: Reflections on Nikkei, citizenship, belonging, architecture, and art on the 75th anniversary of Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment pp. 246-260

Millie Creighton

Volume 29, issue 1, 2017

Message from the editor pp. 1-1

Franz Waldenberger

Food, agriculture and risk in contemporary Japan pp. 2-13

Cornelia Reiher and Tomiko Yamaguchi

Young organic farmers in Japan: Betting on lifestyle, locality, and livelihood pp. 14-30

Nancy Rosenberger

Abandoned land, corporate farming, and farmland banks: a local perspective on the process of deregulating and redistributing farmland in Japan pp. 31-46

Hanno Jentzsch

Of beans and bonds: Canadian farmers, Japanese buyers, and the moral economy of the non-GM soybean pp. 47-66

Gavin H. Whitelaw

Food safety and regulatory change since the ‘mad cow’ in Japan: Science, self-responsibility, and trust pp. 67-88

Tine Walravens

Paul B. Watt, Demythologizing pure land Buddhism: Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist tradition pp. 89-91

Steffen Döll

Christopher Perkins, The United Red Army on screen: Cinema, aesthetics and the politics of memory pp. 91-94

Till Knaudt

Sébastien Lechevalier, The great transformation of Japanese capitalism pp. 95-98

Franz Waldenberger

Peter Cave, Schooling selves: Autonomy, interdependence, and reform in Japanese junior high education pp. 98-100

Zi Wang

Stephen Robert Nagy, Japan’s demographic revival: Rethinking migration, identity, and sociocultural norms pp. 101-102

Ruth Achenbach

Hiromichi Hosoma, Kaigo suru karada [Bodies doing care] pp. 103-104

Peter Backhaus