Contemporary Japan

1999 - 2026

Current editor(s): Isaac Gagni

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Volume 33, issue 2, 2021

Message from the managing editor pp. 147-147

Isaac Gagné

Crime prevention in a low-crime nation: an enquiry into Japanese bōhan initiatives pp. 148-168

Christoph Schimkowsky

Media representation of an imagined imperial community: Digital media reports in Japan at the dawn of the Reiwa era and Emperor Naruhito’s ascension to the throne pp. 169-200

Shinobu Anzai

Satirising imperial anxiety in Victorian Britain: Representing Japan in Punch Magazine, 1852-1893 pp. 201-224

Amy Matthewson

Was Fidel Castro’s Cuba rescued by the Yankees from Japanese aggression? A very special view of the Pacific War pp. 225-242

Gerhard Krebs

Watsuji on nature: Japanese philosophy in the wake of Heidegger pp. 243-248

Hans Peter Liederbach

Review of Karl Haushofer und die OAG: Deutsch-japanische Netzwerke in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Karl Haushofer and the German East Asiatic Society: German-Japanese Networks in the First Half of the 20th Century) pp. 248-250

Adam Cathcart

Empire of dogs. Canines, Japan, and the making of the modern imperial world pp. 250-253

Barbara Holthus

Living transnationally between Japan and Brazil: Routes over roots pp. 253-256

Suma Ikeuchi

Rethinking Japanese feminisms pp. 256-259

Jasmin Rückert

Branding Japanese food: from Meibutsu to Washoku pp. 259-261

Simon Paxton

Review of the story of Japan’s Ohmi merchants: The precept of Sanpo-yoshi pp. 261-263

Dylan Scudder

Tanaka Kōtarō and world law: Rethinking the natural law outside the west pp. 263-265

Kei Uno

Volume 33, issue 1, 2021

Message from the editor pp. 1-2

Franz Waldenberger

Staying connected: Effects of online platforms on transnational family relations and social capital pp. 3-23

Rumika Suzuki Hillyer

War memories and Japanese citizens’ views toward the self-defense forces pp. 24-40

Satoshi Machida

Japanese national identity and the positioning of English as opportunity or obstruction pp. 41-56

Damian J. Rivers

Uniformity or polarization? The nuclear power debate in Japanese newspapers and political coalitions, 1973–2014 pp. 57-122

Tobias Weiss

Épistémologie à la japonaise: Kanamori Osamu and the history and philosophy of science in Japan pp. 123-137

Hansun Hsiung

Soka Gakkai’s human revolution: The rise of a mimetic nation in modern Japan pp. 138-141

Mark Teeuwen

The Anime Boom in the United States: lessons for global creative industries pp. 141-143

Eyal Ben-Ari

The sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional baseball in modern Japan pp. 143-146

Lee Thompson

Volume 32, issue 2, 2020

Message from the Managing Editor pp. 149-149

Isaac Gagné

Picturing translocal matters in a mobile world: Photography as a method of ethnographic research at a Japanese gathering in Berlin pp. 150-173

Julia Gerster and Natalia Morokhova

Tabunka Kyōsei without immigration policy: The role of centers for international exchange and their challenges pp. 174-196

Viktoriya Kim and Philip Streich

Who am I with others?: Selfhood and shuwa among mainstream educated deaf and hard-of-hearing Japanese youth pp. 197-217

Jennifer M. McGuire

The taught curriculum of moral education at Japanese elementary school: the role of classtime in the broad curriculum pp. 218-239

Sam Bamkin

Area studies and the disciplines: Japanese Studies and anthropology in comparative perspective pp. 240-261

Eyal Ben-Ari

The self-defense forces and postwar politics in Japan pp. 262-265

William L. Brooks

Review of Landscape gardener Ogawa Jihei and his times: A profile of modern Japan pp. 265-267

Christian Tagsold

Food safety after Fukushima: Scientific citizenship and the politics of risk pp. 267-269

Cornelia Reiher

Das Atombombenmuseum Hiroshima: Erinnern jenseits der Nation (1945-1975) pp. 269-272

Sonja Hülsebus

Marketcraft: How governments make markets work pp. 272-275

Jonathan Krautter

Volume 32, issue 1, 2020

Message from the editor pp. 1-1

Franz Waldenberger

Governing death and dying in Japan and its colonies – From state control to self-optimization pp. 2-5

Juljan Biontino, Dorothea Mladenova and Celia Spoden

Changes in funerary rites and burial practices in Modern Korea (1876–1945) pp. 6-24

Juljan Biontino

Graveyard geomancy in Korea under Japanese rule – Focusing on the 1930s pp. 25-42

Ri-Hye Han

The “improvement of funeral ceremonies” movement and the creation of “modern” Japanese subjects in Taiwan during Japanese rule pp. 43-62

Chizuru Tainaka

Deciding one’s own death in advance: Biopower, living wills, and resistance to a legislation of death with dignity in Japan pp. 63-82

Celia Spoden

Governing through kodokushi. Japan’s lonely deaths and their impact on community self-government pp. 83-102

Nils Dahl

Optimizing one’s own death: The Shūkatsu industry and the enterprising self in a hyper-aged society pp. 103-127

Dorothea Mladenova

Smartphones versus NHK? Mobilization strategies of the Japanese anti-nuclear movement under Abe’s restrictive media policy pp. 128-140

Anna Wiemann

Intimacy and reproduction in contemporary Japan pp. 141-144

Nora Kottmann

An anthropology of the machine: Tokyo’s commuter train network pp. 145-147

Florian Purkarthofer

Erratum pp. 148-148

The Editors

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