Dear All (with apologies for cross-posting),

We are pleased to announce that the newest issue of /Contemporary Japan/ is now available online:

Volume 33 Issue 2 (September 2021)

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/33/2?nav=tocList <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/33/2?nav=tocList>

This issue features original research articles exploring: 1) how crime prevention (/bōhan/) became a widespread concept in low-crime Japan (Schimkowsky); 2) changing media representations of the imperial family from the Meiji era to the dawn of the Reiwa era (Anzai); 3) and a critical discussion of the role of satirical depictions of Japan in Victorian British cartoons (Matthewson). In addition, we continue our Invited Commentary section with the historian Gerhard Krebs' critical analysis of Gerhard L. Weinberg's argument that Imperial Japan's expansionist ambitions extended as far as the Caribbean. Krebs draws on a vast array of documents to identify the key counterpoints to Weinberg's claim, also touching on the historiography of Richard Storry and the role played by Tojo Hideki in the Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Lastly,our book review section includes a broad range of important publications in the fields of philosophy, history, anthropology, gender studies, food studies, and religious studies.Please explore the articles through the links below.

Table of Contents:

*Message from the Managing Editor *

/Isaac Gagn//é/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1968565 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1968565>

*Articles*

"Crime prevention in a low-crime nation: an enquiry into Japanese /bōhan/ initiatives"

/Christoph Schimkowsky/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1852363 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1852363>

"Media representation of an imagined imperial community: Digital media reports in Japan at the dawn of the Reiwa era and Emperor Naruhito's ascension to the throne"

/Shinobu Anzai/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1921330 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1921330>

"Satirising imperial anxiety in Victorian Britain: Representing Japan in Punch Magazine, 1852-1893"

/Amy Matthewson/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1926410 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1926410>

*Invited Commentary*

"Was Fidel Castro's Cuba rescued by the Yankees from Japanese aggression? A very special view of the Pacific War"

/Gerhardt Krebs/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1842969 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1842969>

*Book Reviews*

/Watsuji on nature: Japanese philosophy in the wake of Heidegger/, by David Johnson//(Northwestern University Press 2019)//

/Hans Peter Liederbach/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1728616 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1728616>

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/Karl Haushofer und die OAG: Deutsch-japanische Netzwerke in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Karl Haushofer and the German East Asiatic Society: German-Japanese Networks in the First Half of the 20th Century)/, by Christian Spang (iudicium 2018)

/Adam Cathcart/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1953773 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1953773>

/Empire of dogs: Canines, Japan, and the making of the modern imperial world/,//by Aaron Herald Skabelund (Cornell University Press 2019 [2011])

/Barbara Holthus/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1812027 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1812027>

/Living transnationally between Japan and Brazil: Routes over roots/, by Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer (Lexington Books 2020)

/Suma Ikeuchi/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1795793 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1795793>

/Rethinking Japanese feminisms/, edited by Julia Bullock, Ayako Kano and James Welker (University of Hawai'i Press 2018)

/Jasmin Rückert /

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1735608 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1735608>

/Branding Japanese food: from Meibutsu to Washoku/, by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka and Miho Yasuhara (University of Hawai'i Press 2019)

/Simon Paxton/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1790197 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1790197>

/The Story of Japan's Ohmi merchants: The precept of Sanpo-yoshi/, by Kunitoshi Suenaga, translated by Larry Greenberg (JAPAN LIBRARY 2020)

/Dylan Scudder/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1747781 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1747781>

/Tanaka Kōtarō and world law: Rethinking the natural law outside the west/, by Kevin M. Doak (Palgrave Macmillan 2019)

/Kei Uno/

https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1763572 <https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1763572>

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http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rcoj20&page=instructions <http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rcoj20&page=instructions>

We hope that you are staying safe, healthy, and hopeful in these challenging times.

With best wishes,

Isaac Gagné

Managing Editor, /Contemporary Japan/

me@contemporary-japan.org <mailto:me@contemporary-japan.org>

Franz Waldenberger

Editor-in-Chief, /Contemporary Japan/