We are pleased to announce the new issue of Japan Forum 32.3 is available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjfo20/current


Special Issue: 40 years with Murakami Haruki

Guest Editors: Gitte Marianne Hansen and Michael Tsang


Articles

40 years with Murakami Haruki - - - - Gitte Marianne Hansen and Michael Tsang

Katō Norihiro: introduction and tribute - - - - Gitte Marianne Hansen and Michael Tsang

The problem of tatemashi in Murakami Haruki's work: comparing The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84 - - - - Katō Norihiro

Out of the (B)earth canal: the mythic journey in Murakami Haruki - - - - Matthew C. Strecher

The artist as a medium and the artwork as metaphor in Murakami Haruki's fiction - - - - Rebecca Suter

No translator is an island: the changing dynamics of Murakami Haruki translations around the world - - - - Anna Zielinska-Elliott

Politics in/of transmediality in Murakami Haruki's bakery attack stories - - - - Gitte Marianne Hansen and Michael Tsang


Individual Article

Cuteness, josō, and the need to appeal: otoko no ko in male subculture in 2010s Japan - - - - Sharon Kinsella



Bill Mihalopoulos - Japan Forum Chief Editor