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Issue 102, Summer 2020 Special Issue: Japan: Literatures of Remembering

Editorial The Making and Re-making of Memory

Interview Mieko Kawakami

Articles Hayao Miyazaki’s European Animation; Poems of the Perilous Season: Akiko’s Princess Saho; Unruly Subjects in 'Walking a Street Named Peace' and Tokyo Ueno Station; Hibakusha Memories: Between the Generations

Art Manga as Memory: Cocoon, In this Corner of the World and Popular History, The Politics of Ownership: Notes on Miyako Ishiuchi’s Photographs

Fiction Hideo Furukawa, Minako Ōba

Poetry Mimi Hachikai, Tamiki Hara, Hiromi Itō, Naha Kanie, Mieko Kawakami, Martha Nakamura, Sayaka Ōsaki, Ryōichi Wagō

Life-writing Kumiko Kakehashi, Susan Southard

Review Essay The Transformation of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Fiction

Reviews Osamu Dazai, A Shameful Life; Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino; Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are; Yoko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

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Japan: Literatures of Remembering

Guest Edited by Elizabeth Chappell, Hiromitsu Koiso and Yasuhiko Ogawa

Editorial

The Making and Re-making of Memory

Elizabeth Chappell, Hiromitsu Koiso and Yasuhiko Ogawa

Articles

Untold Stories from the War: Women, Air Raids and Atomic Bombs

Kumiko Kakehashi, trans. by Elizabeth Chappell

Remembering and Forgetting: Life after Nuclear War

Susan Southard

Poems of the Perilous Season: Akiko Yosano’s Princess Saho

Janine Beichman

Unruly Subjects in Shun Medoruma’s ‘Walking a Street Named Peace’ and Miri Yū’s Tokyo Ueno Station

Davinder L Bhowmik

Hayao Miyazaki’s European Animation: From European Literary Influences to Nostalgic Re-imaginings

Rayna Denison

Hibakusha Memories: Between the Generations

Elizabeth Chappell

Art Piece

Manga as Memory: Cocoon, In This Corner of the World and Popular History

Jocelyne Allen

The Politics of Ownership: Notes on Miyako Ishiuchi’s Photographs

Yoshiaki Kai

Interview

An Interview with Mieko Kawakami

Hitomi Yoshio

Fiction

Warriors’ Dreams

Hideo Furukawa, trans. by Morgan Giles

Once She (Extract)

Minako Ōba, trans. by Asa Yoneda

Poetry

Ghosts

Ryōichi Wagō, trans. by Jeffrey Angles

Makers of Darkness

Sayaka Ōsaki, trans. by Jeffrey Angles

A Plain-coloured Corpse

Hiromi Itō, trans. by Jeffrey Angles

Bone Picking

Mimi Hachikai, trans. by Kyoko Yoshida

Parting

Martha Nakamura, trans. by Polly Barton

Reputation

Naha Kanie, trans. by Jeffrey Angles

The Day Before

Mieko Kawakami, trans. by Hitomi Yoshio

Memories; Recollections

Tamiki Hara, trans. by Andrew Campana

Reviews

Review Essay: The Transformation of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Fiction Roger Pulvers, Tokyo Performance Kazufumi Shiraishi, trans. by Raj Mahtani, Stand-in Companion Kanji Hanawa, trans. by Richard Nathan, Backlight

Stephen Dodd

Akiyuki Nosaka, trans. by Ginny Tapley Takemori, The Cake Tree in the Ruins

Eluned Gramich

Kyoko Nakajima, trans. by Ginny Tapley Takemori, The Little House

Nick Bradley

Osamu Dazai, trans. by Mark Gibeau, A Shameful Life

Catherine Ames

Hiroko Oyamada, trans. by David Boyd, The Factory

Nadeschda Bachem

Hiromi Kawakami, trans. by Allison Markin Powell, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Aoko Matsuda, trans. by Polly Barton, Where the Wild Ladies Are