Dear All,

We are pleased to announce that the newest issue of Contemporary Japan is now available online:
Volume 32 Issue 2 (September 2020)
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/32/2?nav=tocList

This issue features a range of articles exploring: photography and ethnographic research among Japanese in Berlin; the role of centers for international exchange in multicultural community building; notions of selfhood among deaf and hard-of-hearing youth; and moral education in elementary school classrooms. This issue also features an Invited Commentary by Eyal Ben-Ari reflecting on the relationship between area studies and the disciplines and the adaptive potential of Japanese Studies. Please explore the articles through the links below.

Table of Contents:
Message from the Managing Editor
Isaac Gagné
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1810967

Articles
"Picturing translocal matters in a mobile world: Photography as a method of ethnographic research at a Japanese gathering in Berlin"
Julia Gerster and Natalia Morokhova
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1735050

"Tabunka kyōsei without immigration policy: The role of centers for international exchange and their challenges"
Viktoriya Kim and Philip Streich
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1770477

"Who am I with others?: Selfhood and shuwa among mainstream educated deaf and hard-of-hearing Japanese youth"
Jennifer M. McGuire
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1766646

"The taught curriculum of moral education at Japanese elementary school: the role of classtime in the broad curriculum"
Sam Bamkin
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1747780

Invited Commentaries and Review Articles
"Area studies and the disciplines: Japanese Studies and anthropology in comparative Perspective"
Eyal Ben-Ari
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1793537

Book Reviews
The self-defense forces and postwar politics in Japan, by Sado Akihiro (JPIC 2017)
William L. Brooks
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2019.1630591

Landscape gardener Ogawa Jihei and his times: A profile of modern Japan, by Suzuki Hiroyuki (JPIC 2018)
Christian Tagsold
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2019.1634347

Food safety after Fukushima: Scientific citizenship and the politics of risk, by Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna
(University of Hawaii Press 2018)
Cornelia Reiher
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2019.1641000

Das Atombombenmuseum Hiroshima: Erinnern jenseits der Nation (1945-1975) [The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum: Remembering beyond the nation (1945-1975)], by Stefanie Schäfer (Bielefeld 2018)
Sonja Hülsebus
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2019.1655696

Marketcraft: How governments make markets work, by Steven K. Vogel (Oxford University Press 2018)
Jonathan Krautter
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2019.1671646

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We also invite all interested scholars to submit their work to Contemporary Japan. We are a Scopus-indexed journal, and we feature rolling submissions, a double-blind peer-review process, advanced access (online first) publishing, and language support for non-native English speakers. We also continue to accept proposals for special issues. Instructions for submission can be found here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rcoj20&page=instructions

We hope that you all stay safe and healthy in these challenging times.

With Best Wishes,

Isaac Gagné
Managing Editor, Contemporary Japan
me@contemporary-japan.org

Franz Waldenberger
Editor-in-Chief, Contemporary Japan