May 2023
Daniel White・Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety

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Jun 2022
David Leheny・Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline

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Feb 2022
Thomas Baudinette・Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo

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Jan 2022
Amia Srinivasan・The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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Nov 2021
Rachael Hutchinson・Japanese Culture Through Videogames

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Sep 2021
Christoper B. Patterson・Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games

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Aug 2021
Yoshikuni Igarashi・Japan, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism

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Nov 2020
Gabriele Koch・Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy

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Jun 2020
Teri Silvio・Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan

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Apr 2020
Gabriella Lukács・Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy

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Nov 2019
Marc Steinberg・The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet

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