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Cho Kyo

The Search for the Beautiful Woman: A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty

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Nagai Kafū

Selections from “Ukiyo-e Landscapes and Edo Scenic Places”

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Kyoko Selden

A Childhood Memoir of Wartime Japan

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Sakiyama Tami

Swaying, Swinging

Miyamoto Teru

Muddy River

Oguma Eiji

Japan's 1968: A Collective Reaction to Rapid Economic Growth in an Age of Turmoil

Matthew Allen

Producing Okinawan Cultural Identity in Hawai`i’s 'Multicultural Paradise'

Richard Sams and Saotome Katsumoto

Saotome Katsumoto and the Firebombing of Tokyo: Introducing The Great Tokyo Air Raid

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Alexander Brown and Vera Mackie

Introduction: Art and Activism in Post-Disaster Japan

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Takanori Tamura

The Internet and Personal Narratives in the Post-Disaster Anti-Nuclear Movement

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Vera Mackie

Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Maralinga

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Tamaki Tokita

The Post-3/11 Quest for True Kizuna – Shi no Tsubute by Wagō Ryōichi and Kamisama 2011 by Kawakami Hiromi

Fran Martin, Chris Healy, Koichi Iwabuchi, Olivia Khoo, Claire Maree, Keren Yi and Audrey Yue

Australia’s “Asian Century”: Time, Space and Public Culture

Gennifer Weisenfeld

Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923

Kathryn M. Tanaka and Hōjō Tamio

'Life's First Night' and the Treatment of Hansen's Disease in Japan

Ran Zwigenberg

Never Again: Hiroshima, Auschwitz and the Politics of Commemoration

Nogawa Motokazu and Nishino Rumiko

The Japanese State’s New Assault on the Victims of Wartime Sexual Slavery

Jeremy Kuzmarov

'Distancing Acts': Private Mercenaries and the War on Terror in American Foreign Policy

Peter Hayes

US Strategic Negligence, North Korea and the Sony Slideshow

Christine Hong

Stranger than Fiction: The Interview and U.S. Regime-Change Policy Toward North Korea

Jon Mitchell

The Secret History of Cannabis in Japan

Margaret Mehl

Going Native, Going Global: The Violin in Modern Japan

Camellia Webb-Gannon and Jim Elmslie

MSG Headache, West Papuan Heartache? Indonesia's Melanesian Foray MSG（）

Sabine Frühstück

The Modern Girl as Militarist: Female Soldiers In and Beyond Japan’ Self-Defense Forces

Elisheva A. Perelman

The Japanese Way of Silence and Seclusion: Memes of Imperial Women

Mayuzumi Madoka

So Happy to see Cherry Blossoms: Haiku from the Year of the Great Earthquake and Tsunami

Shota Ogawa

Korean Film Companies in U.S. Occupied Japan: Imagining an Independent Korea

Tsurumi Kazuko and Tom Gill

New Lives: Some Case Studies of Minamata

Noriko Manabe

Uprising: Music, youth, and protest against the policies of the Abe Shinzō government

Christopher Gerteis

Political Protest in Interwar Japan Part I

Christopher Gerteis

Political Protest in Interwar Japan--Part II

Andrew Gordon

Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905

Kirk A. Denton

Exhibiting the Past: China’s Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum

Jung-Sun Han

Japan in the public culture of South Korea, 1945–2000s: The making and remaking of colonial sites and memories

Yoshiko Sakumoto Crandell

Surviving the Battle of Okinawa: Memories of a Schoolgirl

Koide Reiko

Critical New Stage in Japan’s Textbook Controversy

Jordan Sand

Imperial Tokyo as a Contact Zone: the Metropolitan Tours of Taiwanese Aborigines, 1897-1941

Christopher Thompson

Are You Coming to the Matsuri?: Tsunami Recovery and Folk Performance Culture on Iwate's Rikuch Coast

Mark Selden

Bombs Bursting in Air: State and citizen responses to the US firebombing and Atomic bombing of Japan

Matthew Penney

'Why on earth is something as important as this not in the textbooks?' – Teaching Supplements, Student Essays, and History Education in Japan

Pekka Korhonen

Leaving Asia? The Meaning of Datsu-A and Japan’s Modern History

James Shields

Revisioning a Japanese Spiritual Recovery through Manga: Yasukuni and the Aesthetics and Ideology of Kobayashi Yoshinori’s “Gomanism”

Noriko Manabe

Music in Japanese Antinuclear Demonstrations: The Evolution of a Contentious Performance Model

Hiroaki Sato and Nancy Sato

So Happy to See Cherry Blossoms: Haiku from the Year of the Great Earthquake and Tsunami

Robin Kietlinski

Sports, Motherhood, and the Female Body in Contemporary Japan

Mary Knighton

The Sloppy Realities of 3.11 in Shiriagari Kotobuki’s Manga

Roger Pulvers

Architect Kuma Kengo: ‘a product of place’

Richard Howson and Brian Yecies

The Korean “Cinema of Assimilation” and the Construction of Cultural Hegemony in the Final Years of Japanese Rule

Eiichiro Ochiai

The Manga “Oishinbo” Controversy: Radiation and Nose Bleeding in the Wake of 3.11

Jon Mitchell

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