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Japan: Literatures of Remembering. Guest edited by Elizabeth Chappell, Hiromitsu Koiso and Yasuhiko Ogawa

Editorial

Editorial
The Making and Re-making of Memory
Elizabeth Chappell, Hiromitsu Koiso & Yasuhiko Ogawa
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Life Writing

Article
Untold Stories from the War: Women, Air Raids and Atomic Bombs
Kumiko Kakehashi & Elizabeth Chappell
Pages: 3-7
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Art

Article
Manga as Memory: cocoon, In This Corner of the World and Popular History
Jocelyne Allen
Pages: 8-18
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Life Writing

Article
Remembering and Forgetting: Life after Nuclear War
Susan Southard
Pages: 19-23
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Poetry

Poetry
Ghosts
Ryōichi Wagō & Jeffrey Angles
Pages: 24-27
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Poetry
Makers of Darkness
Sayaka Ōsaki & Jeffrey Angles
Pages: 28-29
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Poetry
A Plain-coloured Corpse
Hiromi Itō & Jeffrey Angles
Pages: 30-32
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Poetry
Bone Picking
Mimi Hachikai & Kyoko Yoshida
Page: 33
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Poetry
Parting
Martha Nakamura & Polly Barton
Pages: 34-35
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Poetry
Reputation
Naha Kanie & Jeffrey Angles
Page: 36
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Poetry
The Day Before
Mieko Kawakami & Hitomi Yoshio
Pages: 37-38
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Interview

Discussion
An Interview with Mieko Kawakami
Hitomi Yoshio
Pages: 39-44
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Fiction

Warriors’ Dreams
Hideo Furukawa & Morgan Giles
Pages: 45-49
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Once She (Extract)
Minako Ōba & Asa Yoneda
Pages: 50-53
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Articles

Article
Poems of the Perilous Season: Akiko Yosano’s Princess Saho
Janine Beichman
Pages: 54-59
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Unruly Subjects in Shun Medoruma’s ‘Walking a Street Named Peace’ and Miri Yū’s Tokyo Ueno Station
Davinder L Bhowmik
Pages: 60-66
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Hayao Miyazaki’s European Animation: From European Literary Influences to Nostalgic Re-imaginings
Rayna Denison
Pages: 67-73
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Art

Article
The Politics of Ownership: Notes on Miyako Ishiuchi’s Photographs
Yoshiaki Kai
Pages: 74-77
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Poetry

Poetry
Memories; Recollections
Tamiki Hara & Andrew Campana
Page: 78
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Articles

Article
Hibakusha Memories: Between the Generations
Elizabeth Chappell
Pages: 79-86
Published online: 19 May 2020
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Reviews

Book Review
The Transformation of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Fiction
Tokyo Performance Roger Pulvers Red Circle, London, 2018, pb, 58pp, ISBN 9781912864027, £7.50 www.redcircleauthors.comStand-in Companion Kazufumi Shiraishi, trans. by Raj Mahtani Red Circle, London, 2018, pb, 58pp, ISBN 9781912864003, £7.50 www.redcircleauthors.comBacklight Kanji Hanawa, trans. by Richard Nathan Red Circle, London, 2018, pb, 66pp, ISBN 9781912864041, £7.50 www.redcircleauthors.comThe Cake Tree in the Ruins Akiyuki Nosaka, trans. by Ginny Tapley Takemori Pushkin Press, London, 2018, pb, 160pp, ISBN 9781782274186, £12.00 www.pushkinpress.comThe Little House Kyoko Nakajima, trans. by Ginny Tapley Takemori Darf, London, 2019, pb, 336pp, ISBN 9781850773160, £10.99 www.darfpublishers.co.ukA Shameful Life Osamu Dazai, trans. by Mark Gibeau Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, 2018, pb, 144pp, ISBN 9781611720440, $14.95 www.stonebridge.comThe Factory Hiroko Oyamada, trans. by David Boyd New Directions, New York, 2019, pb, 128pp, ISBN 9780811228855, £9.99 www.ndbooks.comThe Ten Loves of Mr Nishino Hiromi Kawakami, trans. by Allison Markin Powell Granta, London, 2019, pb, 208pp, ISBN 9781846277016, £8.99 www.grantabooks.comWhere the Wild Ladies Are Aoko Matsuda, trans. by Polly Barton Tilted Axis, London, 2020, pb, 272pp, ISBN 9781911284383, £9.99 www.tiltedaxispress.comThe Last Children of Tokyo Yōko Tawada, trans. by Margaret Mitsutani Granta, London, 2018, pb, 144pp, ISBN 9781846276705, £9.99 www.grantabooks.comLife for Sale Yukio Mishima, trans. by Stephen Dodd Penguin Modern Classics, London, 2019, pb, 192pp, ISBN 9780241333143, £12.99 www.penguin.co.ukThe Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories Jay Rubin, ed.; Haruki Murakami, introduction Penguin Classics, London, 2019, pb, 576pp, ISBN 9780241311905, £10.99 www.penguin.co.ukHeaven’s Wind: A Dual Language Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Writing Angus Turvill, ed. and trans. Japan Society, London, 2018, pb, 200pp, ISBN 9780955997723, £12.00 www.japansociety.org.ukPicnic in the Storm Yukiko Motoya, trans. by Asa Yoneda Corsair, London, 2019, pb, 224pp, ISBN 9781472154354, £8.99 www.hachette.co.uk
Stephen Dodd, Eluned Gramich, Nick Bradley, Catherine Ames, Nadeschda Bachem, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, James Tink, Fukuko Kobayashi, Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández, Lesley Downer, Susan Meehan & Duncan Hume
Pages: 87-104
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Among the Contributors

Among the Contributors
Pages: 105-107
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