Japan Forum

Re-masculinizing the nation: gender, disaster, and the politics of national resilience in post-3.11 Japan

‘I thought I could get away from gender discrimination’: linguistic instrumentalism and self-actualisation of female interpreters in temporary employment in Japan

Identity politics in Okinawan elections: the emergence of regional populism

Disciplining shit

Redressing injustice of the past: the repatriation of Ainu human remains

Securing the health of the nation: life insurance, labor and health improvement in interwar Japan

Return on display: memories of postcolonial migration at Maizuru

World heritage and the local politics of memory: the Miike coal mine and fu no isan

‘Fake food: authentic Japanese product’—On the rise of visuality in middlebrow Japanese culinary culture

Introduction to ‘Constructing Japanese translation studies’

The demonic countryside: beckoning early modern visitors through oni legend and ritual

Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture, by Seth Jacobowitz

Trees of tension: re-making nature in post-disaster Tohoku

Japanese scandals and their ritualization

Locating culture beneath the moss: Heshikiya Chōbin (1700–1734), the Ryukyu Kingdom, and eighteenth-century Japan

Mimetic creativity in Japanese translations of Edgar Allen Poe

Rearranging the figures on the tapestry: what Japanese direct translation of European texts can tell us about kanbun kundoku

From the ashes of the Great Kantō Earthquake: the Tokyo imperial university settlement

The destruction and rediscovery of Edo Castle: ‘picturesque ruins’, ‘war ruins’

Corrigendum

Bending conventions: agency and self-portrayals in Japanese translator commentary

Precarious regular workers in Japan

Art and Politics of the Landscape: Tani Motokatsu (1778–1840), Ezochi and Nineteenth-century Japan

Constitutive aporia of literature: the case of Kitamura Tōkoku’s theory of literature

Visualizing the Genpei War in nineteenth-century Kaga

Sino-Japanese Power Politics: Might, Money and Minds, by Giulio Pugliese and Aurelio Insisa

Singlehood in ‘precarious Japan’: examining new gender tropes and inter-gender communication in a culture of uncertainty

Fidelity to the dead: the question of complicity in Tsushima Yûko’s Wildcat Dome

Kyoto and the heavens: setting Japan’s center of time

Japan Watchers and the crisis in East Asia, 1931–1941

Introduction

The Kaji-Hara (Housework Harassment) Debates: The Gendering of Housework in Contemporary Japan

Pebbles of progress: streets and urban modernity in early Meiji Tokyo

A fine thing for the way: evidence, counter-evidence and argument in the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds

Of nails and planks: the meaning of Edo-period ship construction techniques

‘Yong lads of very good capacitie.’ Christopher and Cosmus, Anglo-Japanese pioneers

The conservative imaginary: moral re-armament and the internationalism of the Japanese right, 1945–1962

Japan’s hand-written culture: confessions of a print addict