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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

A THOUSAND STEPS TO PARLIAMENT: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia | By Manduhai Buyandelger

Oyunsuren Damdinsuren

TAIWAN’S GREEN PARTIES: Alternative Politics in Taiwan | By Dafydd Fell

Alex Tan

CHINA & RUSSIA: Four Centuries of Conflict & Concord | By Philip Snow

Victor Zatsepine

ON THE EDGE: Life along the Russia-China Border | By Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey

David Wolff

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