[KineJapan] New Content on the ejcjs

[Tim Iles]

The electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 19, Issue 3, available online at:

<http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol19/iss3/index.html>

Content includes the following peer-reviewed articles, discussion papers, and book reviews:


Volume 19, Issue 3
Peer-reviewed articles

L. Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla, Allegories of Japanese women in Paprika: Tsutsui Yasutaka’s novel and Kon Satoshi’s anime

Nicolas Garvizu, The Japanese Developmental State: The Case of Cool Japan

Roxanne Lizelle Niveri and Sol Rojas-Lizana, ‘Changes’ to the new Japanese-Language Proficiency Test: Newly emerged language policies for non-Japanese and Japanese citizens

Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Democratic Backsliding and  the Party System in Interwar Japan

Anthony Rausch. Japan’s Furusato Nozei Tax Program: Neoliberal Policy or Hometown Sentiment?

Discussion papers

Florian Paulsen, Gender-related discrimination in the Japanese and South Korean workforce: A comparative analysis of women’s access to productive and financial resources

Tets Kimura, Restructuring diffusions of contemporary Japanese culture: Field research of Japan Expo in Paris and Two Manga Exhibitions in London

Book reviews

Noel Gough, Another Great Wave? Ecocriticism in Japan



Sincere thanks to our contributors, readers, and team of volunteers around the world.


Timothy Iles
General Editor, the ejcjs