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1. Cover image for 'The Time of Laughter'
Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan
Volume: 101
David Humphrey
David Humphrey is Assistant Professor of Japanese and Global Studies at Michigan State University.
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Ebook Forthcoming View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Time of Laughter"
2. Cover image for 'Toward a Gameic World'
New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games
Volume: 100
Ben Whaley
Examines the ways in which Japanese video games engage with social issues and national traumas
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Ebook 2023 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Toward a Gameic World"
3. Cover image for 'Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist'
The Films of Suzuki Seijun
Volume: 99
Peter A. Yacavone
The definitive study of the pathbreaking and controversial Japanese film director who expanded the form, rhetoric, and philosophy of popular genre movies
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Web 2023 Open Access Available Read Online
4. Cover image for 'How Dark Is My Flower'
Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love
Volume: 98
Leith Morton
Explores romantic love in modern Japanese literature through the work of the leading poet in the Myōjō circle
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Ebook 2023 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "How Dark Is My Flower"
5. Cover image for 'The Three Treasures'
A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto No Tamenori's Sanboe
Volume: 97
Edward Kamens and Ethan Bushelle
An updated, augmented, and illustrated study and translation of this landmark collection of Buddhist tales
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Ebook 2023 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Three Treasures"
6. Cover image for 'Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji'
Revised Edition
Volume: 28
G. G. Rowley
A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies
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Web 2022 Open Access Available Read Online
7. Cover image for 'Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature'
Male Love, Intimacy, and Erotics, 1886–2014
Stephen D. Miller, Editor
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature"
8. Cover image for 'Tokyo Boogie-woogie and D.T. Suzuki'
Volume: 95
Shoji Yamada; Translated by Earl Hartman

A rare exploration into the unknown life of Alan Suzuki, the son of Daisetsu and the writer of "Tokyo Boogie Woogie"

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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Tokyo Boogie-woogie and D.T. Suzuki"
9. Cover image for 'Sojiji'
Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple
Volume: 94
Joshua A. Irizarry
An intimate and insightful look into the life of a head Soto Zen temple in 21st century Japan
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Sojiji"
10. Cover image for 'Regimes of Desire'
Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo
Volume: 93
Thomas Baudinette
Explores the limitations of sexual expression in Tokyo’s “safe” nightlife district and in Japanese media
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Regimes of Desire"
11. Cover image for 'The Courteous Power'
Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era
Volume: 92
John D. Ciorciari and Kiyoteru Tsutsui, editors
Examining the pivotal relationship between Japan and Southeast Asia, as it has changed and endured into the Indo-Pacific Era
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Courteous Power"
12. Cover image for 'Touching the Unreachable'
Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
Volume: 91
Fusako Innami

How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?

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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Touching the Unreachable"
13. Cover image for 'Women and Networks In Nineteenth-Century Japan'
Volume: 90
Writing women back into Japan’s nineteenth-century history, enriching our understanding of the period
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Women and Networks In Nineteenth-Century Japan"
14. Cover image for 'The Era of Great Disasters'
Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes
Volume: 88
Makoto Iokibe; Translated by Tony Gonzalez
Uncovering the humanity and wisdom within the tragedy of Japan’s disaster responses to three major earthquakes
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Era of Great Disasters"
15. Cover image for 'Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji'
First Edition
Volume: 28
G. G. Rowley
A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies
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Web Open Access Forthcoming
16. Cover image for 'Going to Court to Change Japan'
Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan
Patricia G. Steinhoff, Editor
Examines the relationship between social movements and the law in bringing about social change in Japan
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
17. Cover image for 'Black Eggs'
Poems by Kurihara Sadako
Kurihara Sadako; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Richard H. Minear
The poetic voice of one of Japan’s greatest 20th-century poets
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
18. Cover image for 'Conversations with Shotetsu'
Translated by Robert H. Brower; With an Introduction and Notes by Steven D. Carter
The first English translation and study of the late medieval Japanese poetic miscellany Shotetsu monogatari
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
19. Cover image for 'Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan'
William Wayne Farris
Explores the daily life of the citizens of the lost periods of ancient Japan
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
20. Cover image for 'Dances with Sheep'
The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
Matthew Carl Strecher
The first book-length study in English of the fiction of Murakami Haruki
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
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Christianity in Meiji Japan
Yamaji Aizan; Translated by Graham Squires, with Introductory Essays by Graham Squires and A. Hamish Ion
Argues that Christianity played a critical role in the development of modern Japan
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
22. Cover image for 'The Kagero Diary'
A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Sonja Arntzen
A new translation with discussion and annotations of a foundational work of Japanese classical literature
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
23. Cover image for 'Poems of the Five Mountains'
An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries
Marian Ury
Revised translations of the some of the best poems in the Japanese Zen tradition of “literature of the five mountains”
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
24. Cover image for 'The Tale of Matsura'
Fujiwara Teika’s Experiment in Fiction
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Wayne P. Lammers
A translation of Fujiwara Teika’s only successful work of fiction
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
25. Cover image for 'A Tanizaki Feast'
The International Symposium in Venice
Adriana Boscaro and Anthony Hood Chambers, Editors
Proceedings of a landmark international symposium bringing together scholars of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
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