We are happy to announce that the latest issue of Contemporary Japan has just been published online. It is a special issue edited by Louella Matsunaga and Ulrich Heinze on Body concepts: Changing discourses of the body in contemporary Japan".

As usual, all papers are available OPEN ACCESS at http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cj.2015.27.issue-1/issu
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Table of Contents:

Bodies in question: narrating the body in contemporary Japan Louella Matsunaga
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Foucauldian theory and the making of the Japanese sporting body Aaron L. Miller
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Co-sleeping: engaging with the commodified dozing body in Kawabata, Yoshimoto, and Yamazaki Fusako Innami
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Between gyaru-o and sōshokukei danshi: body discourses in lifestyle magazines for young Japanese men Ronald Saladin
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Bodies of future memories: the Japanese body in science fiction anime Dolores Martinez
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