We are happy to announce that the latest issue of Contemporary Japan is now online.
It is a special issue edited by Iza Kavedžija on the topic of Ethnographies of Hope in Contemporary
Japan
All articles are available open access at http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cj.2016.28.issue-1/issue-files/cj.2016.28.issue-1.xml

Contemporary Japan 28(1)
Iza Kavedžija
Introduction: reorienting hopes
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cj.2016.28.issue-1/cj-2016-0001/cj-2016-0001.xml?format=INT

Jason Danely
Hope in an ageing Japan: transience and transcendence
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cj.2016.28.issue-1/cj-2016-0002/cj-2016-0002.xml?format=INT

Brett Hack
Subculture as social knowledge: a hopeful reading of otaku culture
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cj.2016.28.issue-1/cj-2016-0003/cj-2016-0003.xml?format=INT

Scott North & Rika Morioka
Hope found in lives lost: karoshi and the pursuit of worker rights in Japan
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cj.2016.28.issue-1/cj-2016-0004/cj-2016-0004.xml?format=INT

Ieva Puzo
Hope amidst uncertainty: foreign scientists in contemporary Japan
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cj.2016.28.issue-1/cj-2016-0005/cj-2016-0005.xml?format=INT

Stephen Robertson
Hope that sustains: revisiting New Year’s divination at Suwa Taisha
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cj.2016.28.issue-1/cj-2016-0006/cj-2016-0006.xml?format=INT