Contemporary Japan

What shapes local demand for ‘guest worker’ migrants in Japan? The case of the seafood processing industry

The Olympics and Japanese national identity: Multi-layered otherness in Tokyo 2016 and 2020

Becoming right-wing citizens in contemporary Japan

Review of spaces in translation – Japanese Gardens and the West

Explaining Doraemon’s perduring popularity: Structural analysis, specious technology and mother’s indulgent affection

Japan–China relations in the modern era

Six years after: ‘Fukushima memories’ and continued willingness to participate in energy and environmental policy-making process in Japan

Introduction to special section: Emotions and affect in studies on contemporary Japan

Becoming Purikyua: Building the lifestyle-text in Japanese girls’ franchises

Emotional costs of providing social support to political prisoners

The category of religion in contemporary Japan: Shūkyō & Temple Buddhism

An investigation into the roles of the Katakana syllabary in Japanese discourse: From the perspective of discourse producers’ motivation

“Coming Out” as a family with an LGB member in Japan: Normalizing strategies and negotiating with social norms

Cool Japanese men: Studying new masculinities at Cambridge

The academics and their institutional environment in Japan – A view from outside