electronic journal of
contemporary japanese studies

Volume 8, Issue 3

10. Japanese Employment in Transformation: The Growing Number of Non-regular Workers: Ishiguro, Kuniko; Posted: 22 December 2008
9. Ito and Isabella in the Contact Zone: Interpretation, Mimicry and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Elliott, Andrew; Posted: 22 December 2008
8. Feminist Erotica and Agency @ The Love Piece Club: Dales, Laura; Posted: 5 December 2008
7. Celebrating 'Multicultural Japan': Writings on 'Minorities' and the Discourse on 'Difference': Burgess, Chris; Posted: 5 December 2008
6. The 'Honne-Tatemae' Dimension in Japan's Foreign Aid Policy: Overseas Development Aid Allocations in Southeast Asia: FURUOKA, Fumitaka and KATO, Iwao; Posted: 15 November 2008

8. The Anxiety of Influence: Ambivalent Relations Between Japan's 'Mingei' and Britain's 'Arts and Crafts' Movements: Nakanishi, Wendy Jones; Posted: 28 October 2008

Shrinking Cities: Case Study Japan: Project Office Philipp Oswalt; Posted: 28 October 2008
This project was first published by the Shrinking Cities Project in Berlin in June 2008. It is co-published in ejcjs for the purposes of contributing to wider public discourse on contemporary developments in Japanese society. Please click on the orange link above to be taken to a table of contents and links to articles and illustrations.

9. American Japan - Japanese America: Zaborowski, Rafal; Review of: Kelts, Roland (2006) Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S..; Posted: 22 December 2008
8. Picking at the Wound: Nanjing 1937-38: Leibold, James; Review of: Li, Fei Fei, Robert Sabella and David Liu (eds) (2002) Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing, and Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi (ed) (2007) The Nanking Atrocity 1937-38: Complicating the Picture.; Posted: 15 November 2008
7. Real Zen Buddhism: Finding Life Between Disembodied Ideas and Funeral Practices: Sevilla, Anton; Review of: Borup, Jorn, (2008) Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism: Myōshinji, A Living Religion.; Posted: 28 October 2008

3. Reconfiguring History II: Terror and Tragedy: Iles, Timothy; Review of: Kanaria, (Shiota Akihiko, 2004), Distance, (Koreeda Hirokazu, 2001).; Posted: 5 December 2008
2. Reconfiguring History 1: War and Reaction in Contemporary Japanese Cinema: Iles, Timothy; Review of: Warai no daigaku (University of Laughs), Hoshi Mamoru, Bokutachi no sensō (Our War), Kaneko Fumiki.; Posted: 15 November 2008