Dear All,


Greetings from *Contemporary Japan*!
I wish to announce that the newest issue of *Contemporary Japan* is now available online:


Volume 31, Issue 1 (March 2019)
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/31/1?nav=tocList



This issue features a diverse range of original research articles on various topics: Technical Intern Training Program and migrant labor; deliberative democracy and public participation after Fukushima; post-3.11 reconstruction and machizukuri; space-based franchising and media-mix consumption in girls' popular culture; and a structural analysis of Doraemon's popularity. There are also five book reviews on recent publications on "Cool Japan," "Cool Japanese men," Japan-China relations, the Yodogo Exiles, and Japanese gardens in the West. We invite you all to browse the articles!

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Table of Contents:

*Message from the Editor *

*Franz Waldenberger*
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2019.1572970


*Articles*

"What shapes local demand for 'guest worker' migrants in Japan? The case of the seafood processing industry"

*Yusuke Mazumi*
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1563346


"Six years after: 'Fukushima memories' and continued willingness to participate in energy and environmental policy-making process in Japan"

*Hidenori Nakamura*
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1543244


"Reconstruction machizukuri and negotiating safety in post-3.11 community recovery in Yamamoto"

*Pilvi Posio*
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1556495


"Becoming Purikyua: Building the lifestyle-text in Japanese girls' franchises"

*Anya C. Benson*
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1558023


"Explaining Doraemon's perduring popularity: Structural analysis, specious technology and mother's indulgent affection"

*Robert C. Marshall*
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1522075



*Book Reviews*

*Cool Japan - Case studies from Japan's cultural and creative industries*, by Timothy Craig (BlueSky Publishing 2017)
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1480861

*Ronald Saladin*

*Cool Japanese men: Studying new masculinities at Cambridge*, edited by Brigitte Steger and Angelika Koch (LIT Verlag 2017)
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1524192


*Elizabeth Miles*

*Japan-China relations in the modern era*, by Ryosei Kokubun, Yoshihide Soeya, Akio Takahara, and Shin Kawashima (Routledge 2017)
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1485267


*Robert Hoppens*

*Destiny: The Secret Operations of the Yodogō Exiles*, by Koji Takazawa, edited by Patricia Steinhoff (University of Hawai'i 2017)
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1490683


*John Cussen*

*Spaces in translation: Japanese Gardens and the West*, by Christian Tagsold (University of Pennsylvania 2017)
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1522076


*Wybe Kuitert*

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