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Frederick Schodt

The Metaphysical Can Opener

Shizuka Hsieh, Roger Ort and Kerry Walker

Study-abroad in Japan under COVID-19: Emerging Parallels with a Course on Environmental Pollution

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Indigenous Diplomacy: Sakhalin Ainu (Enchiw) in the Shaping of Modern East Asia (Part 1: Traders and Travellers)

Gavan McCormack

Japan, Australia, and the Rejigging of Asia-Pacific Alliances

Steven Ivings and Jonathan Bull

Korean Repatriation and Historical Memory in Postwar Japan: Remembering the Ukishima-maru Incident at Maizuru and Shimokita

Josh Dzieza, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden

The 8th Wonder of the World: Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

Richard J. Smethurst

Planning for War: Elite Staff Officers in the Imperial Japanese Army and the Road to World War II

Daisy’s Story: Filipina Migrants and Other Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa

Mind the Gender Gap: Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka, Feminism and Literature in Japan

Stanisław Meyer

Between a Forgotten Colony and an Abandoned Prefecture: Okinawa’s Experience of Becoming Japanese in the Meiji and Taishō Eras

Pia M. Jolliffe

Forced Labour in Imperial Japan’s First Colony: Hokkaidō

Recycled Images: 21st Century Edition of Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Geography Textbook

A Japanese Anomaly: Theodore Roosevelt and Japan’s Racial Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

To Adopt a Small or Large State Mentality: The Iwakura Mission and Japan’s Meiji-era Foreign Policy Dilemma

Introduction: Race and Empire in Meiji Japan

Special Issue: Race and Empire in Meiji Japan (Table of Contents)

Hisako Sakiyama, Katsuya Hirano, Hirotaka Kasai and Akiko Anson

“Take Science Seriously and Value Ethics Greatly”: Health Effects of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Subodhana Wijeyeratne

A Race to War: Japanese Public Intellectuals and Racial Explanations of the Russo-Japanese War

Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang

Yun Isang, Media, and the State: Forgetting and Remembering a Dissident Composer in Cold-War South Korea

Yoshida Yutaka and Bo Tao

The Battlefield Experience of Japanese Soldiers in the Asia-Pacific War

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