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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

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

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