Northeast Asia

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COMICS AND THE ORIGINS OF MANGA: A Revisionist History | By Eike Exner

Matthew Penney

ROBOTS WON’T SAVE JAPAN: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation | By James Wright

Anne Allison

LOANWORDS AND JAPANESE IDENTITY: Inundating or Absorbed? | By Naoko Hosokawa

 Derek Hall

JAPAN’S PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE: Protest and Law During the Iraq War | By Lawrence Repeta

Veronica L. Taylor

INVOLUNTARY CONSENT: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry | By Akiko Takeyama // THE WORK OF GENDER: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan. Gearing Asia | Edited by Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi

Alexandra Hambleton

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN JAPAN: Issues in Business and Higher Education | Edited by Lailani Alcantara and Yoshiki Shinohara

Kaoru Sonoda

BELONGING IN A HOUSE DIVIDED: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process | By Joowon Park

HaeRan Shin

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NORTH KOREA: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics | Edited by Min-Hua Chiang

Seungho Jung

NORTH KOREA’S FOREIGN POLICY: The Kim Jong-Un Regime in a Hostile World | Edited by Scott A. Snyder and Kyung-Ae Park

Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein

CONFRONTING SOUTH KOREA’S NEXT CRISIS: Rigidities, Polarization, and Fear of Japanification | By Jaejoon Woo

Sunwoong Kim