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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

The Emptiness of Japan’s Values Diplomacy in Asia

Okiyoshi Takeda

NHK and “Black Lives Matter”: Structural Racism in Japan

Matsumoto Chie and Makiko Deguchi

Voices of Sanitation Workers in Japan amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jack Lichten and Chika Kondo

Resilient Japanese Local Food Systems Thrive during COVID-19: Ten Groups, Ten Outcomes (十人十色 jyu-nin-to-iro)

How are Tokyo’s Independent Restauranteurs Surviving the Pandemic?

In the Age of COVID-19 – Indian restaurants and the Indian cooks in Japan

Vietnamese Technical Trainees in Japan Voice Concerns Amidst COVID-19

Limitations of Social Protections of Migrant Families in Japan Exposed by COVID-19: The Case of Nepalese Women

Valentina Giammaria

COVID-19 in Japan: A Nighttime Disease

Robin O'Day and Satsuki Uno

Japanese Freelance Workers Struggle during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social Media, Critique, and Political Resistance

Domestic Violence and Japan’s COVID-19 pandemic

Sarajean Rossitto

Isolated Together: Amplified vulnerabilities in Japan’s Children’s Homes

Rose Barbaran and David H. Slater

The Whole Block Goes Down: Refugees in Japan’s detention centers during the pandemic

David H. Slater and Sara Ikebe

Social Distancing from the Problem of Japanese Homelessness under Covid-19

The Coronavirus Crisis: Disability Politics and Activism in Contemporary Japan

David H. Slater

Vulnerable Populations Under COVID-19 in Japan: A Lull in the Storm?

David H. Slater

Special Issue: Vulnerable Populations Under COVID-19 in Japan (Table of Contents)

John G. Russell

“Mindo” and the Matter of Black Lives in Japan

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