electronic journal of
contemporary japanese studies

Peer-reviewed articles

Motoko Tanaka

9. Trends of Fiction in 2000s Japanese Pop Culture

Mitsutoshi Horii

8. Why Do the Japanese Wear Masks?—A short historical review

Kelly Hansen

7. When French Fries Go Viral: Mobile Media and the Transformation of Public Space in McDonald’s Japan

Robert Hoppens

6. The 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War and the Transformation of Japan’s Relations with China in Diplomacy and Discourse

Discussion papers

Joselito Jimenez

6. Irregular Migration and the Democratisation Process: A Postregular Challenge to the Nation State

Daisuke Akimoto

5. Laputa: Castle in the Sky in the Cold War: As a Symbol of Nuclear Technology of the Lost Civilisation

Daisuke Akimoto

4. Howl’s Moving Castle in the War on Terror: A Transformative Analysis of the Iraq War and Japan’s Response

Chris Burrows

3. Japan’s Employment Recruitment System and its Impact on Academic Standards

Book reviews

Avery Morrow

3. A Curious Madness: The Political and Spiritual Struggles of an Imperial Intellect

Lachlan Jackson

2. Romance and Language Learning: An Ethnographic Study of Female Japanese Students of English in Australia