electronic journal of
contemporary japanese studies

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Peer-reviewed articles

Kelly Hansen

7. The Little Girl in the Red Shoes: Nostalgia, Memory and the Growth of a Narrative

Yuko Kawanishi

8. Shûkatsu utsu, the Psychological Toll of Job-Hunting in Japan

Maciej Pletnia

9. Internal pressure—Japan War-Bereaved Families Association and Its Influence on Japanese Politics of Memory

Anthony Rausch

10. Japan’s Regional Think Tanks: A Hidden Sector of Significant (Research) Potential

Book Reviews

Patrick Foss

4. Traveling Across Time and Culture

Discussion Papers

Verina Gfader

2. Talk Geometries: Towards Anime’s sensorial vocabularies; supplement: fragments from Tranquil hills fragile apparatus

Translations

Yukiko Shigeto

2. "Wildfire" by Tsushima Yuko