Anime is (Not) Cult: Gainax and the Limits of Cult Cinema

Aesop’s Fables in Early Modern Japan

“Unhappy” and Isolated Youth: Representations and Experiences of Hikikomori in Contemporary Japan

Empathy, Social Realism, or just Love Troubles? On Japanese “Little Songs”

The Men Who Came In from the Cold Japanese Captives in Siberia and the Making of Postwar Japan

The Mouth of the Cave and the Giant Voice

Successful and Sorry: How high income Japanese women construct themselves in marriage agency ads

How do the past, present and future interact in post-3.11 Japan: Examining the ‘future past’ in the SF manga Coppelion

I never said it would last forever: On Contemporary Japanese Cinema

Dowa Project Policies as unfinished human rights business – from Dotaishin to Ikengushin

Japanese Language Education, Welfare and Motivation

Translating Bashō

Special Forum: Dynamics of Japan’s Ageing Prison population

Early 20th Century Japanese Buddhist Perceptions of Western Imperialism and Why they Matter

Reaching Out to the Buddha in Modern Japan Psychotherapy and Buddhism as Two Sides of a Coin

The Insentient Companion Some Thoughts on Dolls, Robots and Significant Otherness

The smile of Buddha and the laughter of the Zen master

The Modernity of Didactic Literature for women in the Tokugawa Period

Reflections on the division between the sacred and the secular in contemporary Japan: The case of life-cycle rituals

Women’s Memory of Hollywood Cinema in Post-war Japan