Japanese Studies

Sashiko Needlework Reborn: From Functional Technology to Decorative Art

On the Genealogy of Kokujin: Critical Thinking about the Formation of Bankoku and Modern Japanese Perceptions of Blackness

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Spirits and Modern Japanese Literature

Fukasaku Kinji and Kojima Hideo Replay Hiroshima: Atomic Imagery and Cross-Media Memory

The Monster Next Door: Monstrosity, Matricide, and Masquerade in Kirino Natsuo’s Real World

The Origins of ‘Hibakusha’ as a Scientific and Political Classification of the Survivor

Okinawa Narratives: Delineating Rhetoric, Policy and Agency

Boys at the Barre: Boys, Men and the Ballet in Japan

Yumeno Kyūsaku and the Spirit of the Local

Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan

Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan

The Long Sleep of Belatedness: Nonsynchronism and Modernity in Maruoka Kyūka’s ‘Rippu ban unkuru’ (1886) and Tawfīq Al-Ḥakīm’s Ahl Al-Kahf (1933)

Hōchi’s Strange Rumors: Tales of the Floating Castle: A Critical Reading of an Early Japanese Hard Science Fiction Novel

Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives

Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan

The Abject Woman and the Meaning of Illness in Kōda Rohan’s ‘Tai Dokuro’ (Encounter with a Skull)

‘Circling the Circumference of Silence’: Ghosts and Modernism in Postwar Kawabata Yasunari

Monstrous Narratives: Storytelling in Mori Ōgai’s ‘As If’

Supernatural Longing in Yamakawa Tomiko’s Tanka

Fantastic Placeness: Fukushi Kōjirō’s Regionalism and the Vernacular Poetry of Takagi Kyōzō

Family Matters: Nippon Kaigi and Keeping Things Normal

The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950

Amicable Diplomacy? Korean Embassies and Japanese Intellectuals in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries