Dear All,

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

Volume 34 Issue 2 (Fall 2022)
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/34/2?nav=tocList

Volume 34 Issue 2 features a Special Section on "Continuity and Change 10 Years after 3.11: Processes and Dynamics in State-Society Relations," guest edited by Anna Wiemann, Florentine Koppenborg & Tobias Weiss, an invited commentary by Norio Okada from Tottori University, who provides a fascinating reflection on his 30 years of fieldwork in so-called "depopulated areas,", and the English translation of the 2022 VSJF Prize Paper by Isabel Fassbender. Rounding out the issue, our book review section covers English and German language publications in the fields of education, family, history, religious studies, and black studies.

Please explore the articles through the links below.

Editorial

Message from the managing editor
Isaac Gagné
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2022.2133576

Special Section: Continuity and Change 10 Years after 3.11: Processes and Dynamics in State-Society Relations

Continuity and change 10 years after 3.11: Processes and dynamics in state-society relations
Wiemann Anna, Florentine Koppenborg & Tobias Weiss
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2022.2127635

Radiation moms' organizational survival for a decade: A shift from advocacy to non-advocacy activities
Ayaka Löschke
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2022.2112478

Left-libertarian values and post-Fukushima social movements: Analyzing newcomers to protests in Japan
Keiichi Satoh
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2022.2119521

Japan's Disaster Memorial Museums and framing 3.11: Othering the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in cultural memory | Open Access
Julia Gerster & Elizabeth Maly
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2022.2112479

Invited Commentary

Rethinking Japan's depopulation problem: Reflecting on over 30 years of research with Chizu Town, Tottori Prefecture and the potential of SMART Governance
Norio Okada
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2022.2131991

VSJF Prize Paper

Family planning and life planning in contemporary Japan: The "active pursuit of pregnancy" (ninkatsu) phenomenon and its stakeholders
Isabel Fassbender
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2022.2095783

Book Reviews

Family-run universities in Japan: Sources of inbuilt resilience in the face of demographic pressure, 1992-2030, by Jeremy Breaden and Roger Goodman, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Ulrich Teichler
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.2022573

Spannungen im Japanischen Kaiserhaus: Prinzen als Oppositionelle in Krisen-, Kriegs- und Besatzungszeit 1930-1951 [Tensions in the Japanese imperial house: Princes as opposition members in the period of crisis, war and occupation 1930-1951], by Gerhard Krebs, OAG Iudicium Verlag, 2021.
Reviewed by Ernst Lokowandt
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2022.2095869

Gender and the Koseki in contemporary Japan: Surname, power, and privilege, by Linda White, London, Routledge, 2018.
Reviewed by Anna Lughezzani
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1985222

Sacred heritage in Japan,edited by Aike P. Rots and Mark Teeuwen, London, Routledge, 2020.
Reviewed by Ernils Larsson
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1899566

Transpacific correspondence: Dispatches from Japan's black studies,edited by Yuichiro Onishi and Fumiko Sakashita, Palgrave, 2019.
Reviewed by Michio Arimitsu
https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2021.1913794

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 are staying safe, healthy, and hopeful in these challenging times.

With best wishes,

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