The new issue of Japan Forum 32.1 is now available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjfo20/current

Visual Culture in Japan

Introduction to Special issue on visual cultures ----- Bill Mihalopoulos

Special Issue Articles

On countryside roads to national identity: Japanese morning drama series (asadora) and contents tourism ----- Elisabeth Scherer & Timo Thelen

Processional prints of the Kanda festival: popular visual culture and neighborhood identity ----Ezra Toback

Nakahira Takuma's 'Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary?' (1973) and the quest for 'true' photographic realism in post-war Japan ---- Philip Charrier

The never-ending Pacific War: Imamura Shōhei and the ruse of memory ---- Bill Mihalopoulos

Individual Articles

Involution: a perspective for understanding Japanese animation's domestic business in a global context ---- Ryotaro Mihara

Nightclubs, dancing, and reforms to Japan's sex-industry laws (fueihō): lessons in shifting global politico-economic trends from the 'no dancing' country ---- Ryan Hartley


Bill Mihalopoulos

Chief Editor, Japan Forum

Chief Editor
Japan Forum