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Preface – Establishing the Basics

• Hood, C.P., 2023f, ‘42 is the Answer, but what is the Question?’ https://hoodcp.wordpress.com/2023/09/22/42-is-the-answer-but-what-is-the-question/.

Chapter 1: Studying Japan

• Barthes, R., 1983, Empire of Signs, New York: Hill and Wang.
• Buruma, I., 2001, A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains in Japanese Culture (reprint 1984), London: Phoenix.
• Butler, C., 2023, British Children’s Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses, London: Bloomsbury.
• Chandler, D., 2022, Semiotics: The Basics, 4^th Edition, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, 2023, ‘Nihon-no-shima-no-kazu’, https://www.gsi.go.jp/kihonjohochousa/islands_index.html.
• Gygi, F., 2021, ‘Tokyo Olympics branding add to stereotypical view of Japan – but that doesn’t make it appropriation’, https://theconversation.com/tokyo-olympics-branding-adds-to-stereotypical-view-of-japan-but-that-doesnt-make-it-appropriation-164674
• Hayes, C.J., 2019, ‘Utopia or Uprising? Orientalist Discourses of Japanese Robotics in the British Press’, Mutual Images, 6, pp. 135-67.
• Hearn, L., 2005, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (originally published 1894), Kindle Edition.
• Hendry, J., 1999, Other People’s Worlds, New York: New York University Press.
• The Hollywood Reporter, 2022, ‘Netflix’s Head of Anime Says Half of Global Subscribers Watch Japanese Animation, Bullish on Growth (Exclusive)’, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-anime-kohei-obara-interview-1235124676/.
• Hood, C.P., 2023a, ‘Media, Power, and Japan’, https://hoodcp.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/media-power-and-japan/.
• Hood, C.P., 2023b, ‘Netflix and Language Learning’, https://hoodcp.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/netflix-and-language-learning/.
• Hood, C.P., 2023d, ‘Netflix and Learning About Japan’, https://hoodcp.wordpress.com/2023/06/16/netflix-and-learning-about-japan/.
• Hood, C.P., 2023e, July, ‘Bonded by Stereotypes, Clichés, and Tropes: “Western” Movies Set in Japan across the Decades’, paper presented at the ‘Symbols of Japan, Japan as Symbols’ Workshop, Cardiff University.
• Kinmonth, E., 2014, ‘Corporate Culture’, email to NBR’s_Japan_Forum mailing list, 9 April 2014.
• Littlewood, I., 1996, The Idea of Japan: Western Images, Western Myths, London: Secker & Warburg.
• MapsOnTheWeb, 2018, ‘Twelve ways to divide Japan’, https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/169178370339/twelve-ways-to-divide-japan-by-stereotypes-more.
• Metcalf, P., 2005, Anthropology: The Basics, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Miller, R.A., 1982, Japan’s Modern Myth: The Language and Beyond, New York: Weatherhill.
• Morley, D. and Robins, K., 1995, Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries, London: Routledge.
• npd, 2023, ‘Manga’s Momentum’, https://www.npd.com/news/infographics/2023/mangas-momentum/.
• Said, E., 1978, Orientalism (reprint 1995), London: Penguin Books.
• Smith, A.K., and Elias, L.J., 2013, ‘Native Reading Direction and Corresponding Preferences for Left- or Right-Lit images, Perceptual and Motor Skills, 116: 2, pp. 355-67.
• TeamJapanese, 2023, ’24 Beautiful And Untranslatable Japanese Words’, https://teamjapanese.com/beautiful-untranslatable-japanese-words/.
• Tyler, E.B., 1873, Primitive Culture, London: John Murray.
• Wagenaar, W., 2016, ‘Wacky Japan: A New Face of Orientalism’, Asia in Focus, 3, pp. 46-54.
• Yano, C., 2011, Airborne Dreams, Durham: Duke University Press.

Chapter 2: Signs of the Times

• Barthes, R., 1983, Empire of Signs, New York: Hill and Wang.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012, ‘Focus on Prices and Spending’, http://www.bls.gov/opub/focus/volume2_number16/cex_2_16.htm
• City Population, 2023a, ‘JAPAN: Nagano’,  https://www.citypopulation.de/en/japan/nagano/.
• Farley, D., 2017, ‘The Truth about Japanese Tempura’, https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170808-the-truth-about-japanese-tempura.
• FX Top, 2023, ‘Historical Rates, https://fxtop.com/en/historical-exchange-rates.php.
• Greater London Authority, 2023, ‘Population of London’, https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/londons-population.
• Hendry, J., 1999, Other People’s Worlds, New York: New York University Press.
• Hood, C.P., 2006a, Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Hood, C.P., 2006b, ‘From Polling Station to Political Station? Politics and the Shinkansen’, Japan Forum, 18:1, pp. 45-63.
• Hood, C.P., 2020a, ‘Walking the Yamanote Line’, https://hoodcp.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/walking-the-yamanote-line/.
• Itoh, M., 2011, ‘Curry – It’s More Japanese Than You Think’, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2011/08/26/food/curry-its-more-japanese-than-you-think/.
• The Japan Times, 28 March 2022, ‘Depopulation’, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/03/28/national/social-issues/japan-tokigawa-depopulation/.
• The Japan Times, 1 August 2023, ‘Japan’s hometown tax donations set record for third year’, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/08/01/japan/society/japans-hometown-tax-donations-set-record-for-third-year/.
• Juric, A., 2021, ‘What is senbei? The Japanese rice crackers with a 1000 year history’, https://tokyotreat.com/blog/what-is-senbei-japanese-rice-crackers-with-a-1000-year-history.
• Kasai, Y., 2003, Japanese National Railways – Its Break-up and Privatization, Folkestone: Global Oriental.
• Macrotrends, 2023a, ‘Japanese Population Growth Rate 1950-2023’, https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/population-growth-rate.
• Macrotrends,  2023b, ‘Crude Oil Prices – 70 Year Historical Chart’, https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart.
• Matanle, P., 2011, ‘The Historical Arc of Regional Shrinkage in Japan’, in Matanle, P. and Rausch, A.S. (eds.), Japan’s Shrinking Regions, Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, pp83-132.
• Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2023a, ‘Reiwa 3nen (2021) Jinkōdōtaitōkei Geppō Toshikazu (Gaisū) no Gaikyō’, https://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/saikin/hw/jinkou/geppo/nengai21/dl/gaikyouR3.pdf.
• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 2010, ‘Heisei no Gappei ni yoru Shichōsonsū no henka’, http://www.soumu.go.jp/gapei/pdf/090416_09.pdf.
• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 2022, Statistical Handbook of Japan 2022, Tōkyō: Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2023, ‘Average Prices of Building Land by Use and Prefecture’, https://www.stat.go.jp/data/nenkan/71nenkan/zuhyou/y712011000.xlsx.
• New York City, 2023, ‘Population’, https://www.nyc.gov/site/planning/planning-level/nyc-population/current-future-populations.page.
• Nippon.com, 24 April 2023, ‘Japan’s Population Decline: Northern Prefectures See Largest Declines in 2022’, https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01650/.
• OECD, 2023a, ‘Total Fertility Rates’, https://data.oecd.org/pop/fertility-rates.htm.
• Olcott, G., 2009, Conflict and Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Palin, M., 1997, Full Circle, London: BBC.
• Shin-Yokohama Rāmen Museum, 2023, ‘History’, https://www.raumen.co.jp/rapedia/study_history/.
• Tōkyō Metropolitan Government, 2023a, ‘Geography of Tokyo’, https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/english/about/history/history02.html.
• Tōkyō Metropolitan Government, 2023b, ‘Population of Tokyo’, https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/english/about/history/history03.html.
• UNESCO, 2014, ‘Lists of intangible cultural heritage and Register of best safeguarding practices’, http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00559.

Chapter 3: Visual Packaging Culture

• Anime News Network, 2008, ‘Hello Kitty Named Japan’s Tourism Ambassador to China’, http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2008-05-19/hello-kitty-named-japan-tourism-ambassador-to-china.
• Galbraith, P.W. and Karlin, J.G. (eds.), 2012, Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Guttmann, A. and Thompson, L., 2001, Japanese Sports: A History, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.
• Hendry, J., 1993, Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan and Other Societies, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Hood, C.P., 2006a, Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Hood, C.P., 2020b, ‘Contents Tourism – Akime’, https://hoodcp.wordpress.com/2020/05/05/contents-tourism-akime/.
• Hood, C.P., 2020c, ‘Contents Tourism in Plane Sight’, in Yamamura, T. and Seaton, P. (eds), Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences, Bristol: Channel View Publications, pp. 174-88.
• Hosokawa, B., 1997, Old Man Thunder: Father of the Bullet Train, Denver, CO: Sogo Way.
• Japan Market Resource Network (JMRN), 2007, ‘Japan’s Changing Consumer’, http://www.jmrn.com/UserFiles/File/DCLB_JMRN.pdf.
• The Japan Times, 20 April 2013, ‘Doraemon trumps Hello Kitty for Olympic Games ambassador’, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/04/20/our-lives/doraemon-trumps-hello-kitty-for-olympic-games-ambassador/#.U0MJP_ldXiU.
• JR East, 1997, ‘Max E4 All Double Deck Shinkansen E4’, booklet published by JR East.
• Kinsella, S., 2000, Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society, Abingdon: RoutledgeCurzon.
• Macnaughtan, H., 2014, ‘The Oriental Witches: Women, Volleyball and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics’, Sport in History, 34:1, pp. 134-156.
• NHK, 2001, Project X: Shūnen-ga Unda Shinkansen, DVD.
• Oricon, 2009, ‘Miura Jun Intabyū “Saikin, Orejishin-ga Yure-Kyara-ni Natteru?”’, https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/71089/full/.
• Seaton, P., Yamamura, T., Sugawa-Shimada, A., and Jang, K., 2017, Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to ‘Sacred Sites’ of Popular Culture, Amherst: Cambria Press.
• Travel Voice, 2022, ‘ANA and JAL together provide 10% fewer domestic seats and 77% fewer international seats in 2022 than 2019’, https://www.travelvoice.jp/english/ana-and-jal-together-provide-10-fewer-domestic-seats-and-77-fewer-international-seats-in-2022-than-2019.
• Uncanny Japan, 2020, ‘Close Encounter With An Amabie’, https://uncannyjapan.com/podcast/close-encounter-with-an-amabie/.
• Yamamura, T., 2020, ‘Introduction: Contents Tourism beyond Anime Tourism’ in Yoshimura, T. and Seaton, P. (eds.), Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences, Bristol: Channel View Publications, pp. 1-16.
• YouTube, 2011b, ‘STARFLYER NINJA/SAFETY MOVIE’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knN_L62vTIw.

Chapter 4: Shaped by and Shaping Nature

• Bauer, J.R., 2006, Forging Environmentalism, New York: M.E.Sharpe.
• Buruma, I., 2001, A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains in Japanese Culture (reprint 1984), London: Phoenix.
• Dusinberre, M., 2012, Hard Times in the Hometown, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.
• Energy Monitor, 2023, ‘Japan’s Solar PV industry is set for fresh growth’, https://www.energymonitor.ai/policy/japans-solar-pv-industry-is-set-for-fresh-growth/.
• Groth, D., 1996, ‘Media and Political Protest: The Bullet Train Movements’, in Pharr, S. and Krauss, E. S. (eds.), Media and Politics in Japan, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, pp. 213-41.
• Hood, C.P., 2006a, Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Hood, C.P., 2007, ‘Photographing the Shinkansen: Fuji’, https://hoodcp.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/photographing-the-shinkansen-fuji/.
• Hood, C.P., 2023c, ‘Favourite Photos: Bathing Macaques Surrounded by Snow’, https://hoodcp.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/favourite-photos-bathing-macaques-surrounded-by-snow/.
• Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, 2013, ‘The Rebirth of the “Sea of Death”: History of the recovery of Dokai Bay’, http://pub.iges.or.jp/contents/76/eng/story/storyi2.htm.
• IWC, 2023a, ‘Whale population estimates’, http://iwc.int/estimate.
• — 2023b, ‘Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling’, http://iwc.int/aboriginal.
• Jansen, M.B., 2009, The Making of Modern Japan, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Japan Today, 9 February 2014, ‘Who owns Mt Fuji? The answer will probably surprise (and confuse) you’, http://www.japantoday.com/category/arts-culture/view/who-owns-mt-fuji-the-answer-will-probably-surprise-and-confuse-you.
• JWPA (Japan Wind Power Association), 2023, ‘Cumulative Installed Capacity of Wind Power in 2022’, https://jwpa.jp/en/information/6810/.
• Kadota, R., 2019, On The Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi, Tōkyō: Kurodahan Press.
• Kingston, J., 2012, Contemporary Japan, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
• Melville, H., 1851, Moby Dick, Or The Whale, New York: Harper & Brothers.
• Ministry of the Environment, 2013, ‘Heisei 25nen Kaki no Fujisan Tozanshasū ni tsuite’, http://kanto.env.go.jp/pre_2013/0910a.html.
• Ministry of the Environment,  2022, ‘2022nen Kaki no Fujisan Tozanshasū ni tsuite’, https://kanto.env.go.jp/press_00008.html.
• Noguchi, T. and Fujii, T., 2000, ‘Minimizing the Effect of Natural Disasters’, Japan Railway & Transport Review, 23, 52-9.
• RTRI and EJRCF (Railway Technical Research Institute and East Japan Railway Culture Foundation) (eds.), 2001, Japanese Railway Technology Today, Tōkyō: East Japan Railway Culture Foundation.
• Russell, D., 2004, Eye of the Whale, New York: Island Press.
• Tōkyō Metropolitan Government, 2023c, ‘Fujisan ga mieta nissū’, http://www.taiki.kankyo.metro.tokyo.jp/bunpu1/air1/mt_fuji.htm.
• UNESCO, 2023, ‘Japan’, http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/JP/.
• World Nuclear Association, 2014, ‘Nuclear Power in Japan’, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-G-N/Japan/.

Chapter 5: Beliefs and Practices

• Hood, C.P., 2006a, Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Hood, C.P., 2012a, Dealing With Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Hood, C.P., 2012b, ‘Disaster and Death in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash‘ in Suzuki, H. (ed.), Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan: Shifting Social Structures and Values, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 202-25.
• Hood, C.P., 2019, ‘Developing a Model to Explain Modifications to Public Transportation Accident Memorials’, Mortality, 25: 4, 449-69.  https://10.1080/13576275.2019.1702009.
• Hood, C.P.,2021, ‘Aokigahara in Manga – And Does Aokigahara Still Have A Place In Academic Writing?’, https://hoodcp.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/aokigahara-in-manga-and-does-aokigahara-still-have-a-place-in-academic-writing/.
• Horisaka, K, 2013, ‘A Shockwave from the Mecca of Soccer, Brazil’, AJISS Commentary, http://www2.jiia.or.jp/en_commentary/201308/21-1.html.
• Isomae, J., 2013, ‘Discursive Formations Surrounding “Religious Freedom” in Modern Japan: Religion, Shintō, the Emperor Institution, in Hölscher, L. and Eggert, M. (eds.), Religion and Secularity, Leiden: Brill.
• The Japan Times, 20 March 2014, ‘Did Japan’s hallowed cherry trees actually originate in South Korea?’, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/20/national/did-japans-hallowed-cherry-trees-actually-originate-in-south-korea/#.U0TaW_ldXiU.
• Kajī, M., 1924, Remon, Tōkyō: Kadokawa Shoten.
• Mileti, D., 1999, Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States, Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press.
• Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2023b, ‘Jisatsu no Tōkei: Chiiki-ni Okeru Jisatsu-no Kisoshiryō’, https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/0000197204_00008.html.
• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 2023, ‘Religious Organisations, Clergymen and Adherents’, https://www.stat.go.jp/data/nenkan/72nenkan/zuhyou/y722615000.xlsx.
• National Police Agency, 2023, ‘Reiwa 4nen chū-ni Okeru Jisatsu no Jōkyō’, https://www.npa.go.jp/safetylife/seianki/jisatsu/R05/R4jisatsunojoukyou.pdf.
• News on Japan, 6 September 2013, ‘Filming curtailed in “suicide forest”’, http://www.newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/98171.php.
• Nippon.com, 23 March 2022, ‘Survey Shows Japanese Have Average of 3.09 Days’ Worth of Emergency Supplies’, https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01276/.
• OECD, 2023b, ‘Suicide rates’, https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/suicide-rates.htm.
• Ollhoff, J., 2010, Samurai, Edina: ABDO Publishing.
• Public Relations Office, 2013, ‘The Miracle of Kamaishi’, http://mnj.gov-online.go.jp/kamaishi.html.
• Reader, I., 1993, ‘Dead to the World: Pilgrims in Shikoku’, in Reader, I. and Walter, T. (eds.), Pilgrimage in Popular Culture, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
• Seaton, P., Yamamura, T., Sugawa-Shimada, A. and Jang, K., 2017, Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to ‘Sacred Sites’ of Popular Culture, Amherst: Cambria Press.
• Skytrax, 2023a, ‘The World’s 5-star Airlines’, https://skytraxratings.com/the-worlds-5-star-airlines.
• Skytrax, 2023b, ‘Singapore Changi Airport is Named The World’s Best Airport 2023’, https://skytraxratings.com/singapore-changi-airport-is-named-the-worlds-best-airport-2023#google_vignette.
• Tamaru, N. and Reid, D., 1996, Religion in Japanese Culture, Tōkyō: Kōdansha International.
• Tokyo Weekender, 2022, ‘TW Impact: Hiking Mount Tanigawa in Support of Mental Health Awareness in Japan’, https://www.tokyoweekender.com/tw-community/tw-impact/tw-impact-hiking-mount-tanigawa-support-mental-health-awareness/.
• Uncanny Japan, 2023, ‘Doom and Gloom: Cherry Blossom Folk Beliefs’, https://uncannyjapan.com/podcast/cherry-blossom-folk-beliefs/.
• Wattention, 2014, ‘Omotenashi – The Heart of Japanese Hospitality’, http://www.wattention.com/archives/omotenashi-the-heart-of-japanese-hospitality/.
• Yamanashi Tourism Organisation, 2014, ‘The nature found in the Aokigahara “sea of trees”, http://www.yamanashi-kankou.jp/kokuritsukoen/en/miryoku/aokigaharajukai.html.

Chapter 6: One for All, All for One

• Aljazeera, 2022, ‘Why are people with disabilities left out of disaster planning?’, https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-stream/2022/10/17/why-are-people-with-disabilities-left-out-of-disaster-planning.
• BBC, 27 June 2003, ‘Fury over Japan rape gaffe’, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3025240.stm.
• BBC, 10 February 2010, ‘Toyota Bows and the Japanese Art of Apology’, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8508531.stm.
• Bondy, C., 2019, ‘New Law or Old Issues: Stakeholder Expectations on the Bill for the Promotion of the Elimination of Buraku Discrimination’, Japan Forum, 32:2, https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2019.1594340.
• Buruma, I., 2001, A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains in Japanese Culture (reprint 1984), London: Phoenix.
• Carland-Echavarria, P., 2023, ‘LGBTQ Activism in Japan: Prospects and Perspectives’, in Tanaka, K. and Selin, H. (eds), Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 13, Cham: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36331-3_29.
• Cave, P., 2007, Primary School in Japan; Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education, London: Routledge.
• Duke, B., 1986, The Japanese School: Lessons for Industrial America, New York: Praeger.
• Hendry, J., 1993, Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan and Other Societies, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Hendry, J., 2019, Understanding Japanese Society, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Hood, C.P., 2001, Education Reform in Japan: Nakasone’s Legacy, London: Routledge.
• Hood, C.P., 2020d, August, ‘Disaster Narratives by Design: Is Japan Different?‘, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 38: 2, 176-200.
• The Independent, 17 January 2014, ‘Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese soldier to give himself in: “When I surrendered, the past seemed like a dream”’, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/hiroo-onoda-the-last-japanese-soldier-to-give-himself-in-when-i-surrendered-the-past-seemed-like-a-dream-9068009.html
• Japan Today, 26 September 2013, ‘1 in 3 Japanese women want to be housewives: poll’, http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/1-in-3-japanese-women-want-to-be-housewives-poll.
• Kirsch, G., 2014, ‘Bringing the past to the present: Japanese television and public memories of the Pacific War’, Cardiff Japanese Studies Seminar, Cardiff University, 6 February 2014.
• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 2022, Statistical Handbook of Japan 2022, Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
• Nippon.com, 28 March 2022, ‘Why Less than Half of Japanese Women Want to be Promoted’, https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01279/.
• Onodo, H., 2013, No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War, Tōkyō: Kōdansha.
• Reischauer, E.O. and Jansen, M.B., 1995, The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity, Tōkyō: Charles E. Tuttle Press.
• RocketNews24, 4 January 2014, ‘Train enthusiasts gone wild! Are Japan’s train photographers losing their social grace?’, http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/01/04/train-enthusiasts-gone-wild-are-japans-train-photographers-losing-their-social-graces/.
• Rowell, M., 2021, Blind Spot: An Exploration and Education of Blindless, Edinburgh: 404 Ink.
• Schimkowsky, C., 2021, ‘Manner Posters: A Genre Approach’, Japanese Studies, 41:2, 139-60, https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2021.1925097.
• Tatsuki, S., 2018, ‘Persons with Disabilities and the Great East Japan Earthquake’, in Dominelli, L. (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work, Abingdon: Routledge.
• World Bank, 2023, ‘Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%)’, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SG.GEN.PARL.ZS.
• Woronoff, J., 1980, The Coming Social Crisis, Tōkyō: Yohan Publication.

Chapter 7: Nationalism and Internationalism

• BBC, 22 January, 2014, ‘Japan’s ANA pulls “racist” advert’, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25838396.
• Goodman, R., Imoto, Y., and Toivonen, T. (eds.), 2012, A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs, London: Routledge.
• The Guardian, 23 January 2011, ‘BBC apologizes for Japanese atomic bomb jokes on QI quiz show’, http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jan/23/bbc-apology-atomic-bomb-jokes.
• Hood, C.P., 2001, Education Reform in Japan: Nakasone’s Legacy, London: Routledge.
• MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), 2006, ‘Basic Act on Education’, http://www.mext.go.jp/english/lawandplan/1303462.htm.
• Meyer, G., 2007, commentary on DVD for ‘Thirty Minutes of Tokyo’, The Complete 10^th Season, 20^th Century Fox.
• Okimoto, D., 1989, Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Osakada, Y., 2020, ‘An examination of arguments over the Ainu Policy Promotion Act of Japan based on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People’, The International Journal of Human Rights, 25:6, 1053-69, https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2020.1811692
• Rudlin, P., 2023, ‘We hired some foreigners to be more diverse, but nothing has changed’, https://japanintercultural.com/free-resources/articles/foreigners-diverse-japanese-companies/.
• Schoenbaum, T.J., 2008, Peace in Northeast Asia: Resolving Japan’s Territorial and Maritime Disputes with China, Korea and the Russian Federation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Scuderia Ferrari, 2023, https://www.instagram.com/p/CxdE8ZTNjfn/?img_index=5.
• Sea Forces Online, 2023, ‘Japan Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF)’, https://www.seaforces.org/marint/Japan-Maritime-Self-Defense-Force/ships.htm.
• Seaton, P.A., 2007, Japan’s Contested War Memories: The ‘Memory Rifts’ in Historical Consciousness of World War II, London: Routledge.
• SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), 2023, ‘SIPRI Military Expenditure Database’, https://milex.sipri.org/sipri.
• Weiner, M. (ed.), 2009, Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity, London: Routledge.
• Yoshino, K., 1995, Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry, London: Routledge.
• Young, V., 2020, ‘Inciting the Past: Okinawan literature and the decolonising turn’, Japan Forum, 32:4, 577-600, https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2020.1807582
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Chapter 8: Transnationalism and Isolation

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• The Japan Times, 15 January 2023, ‘Children hit the waves in Chiba beach-turned-surfing mecca’, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/01/15/general/surfing-beach-town/.
• The Japan Times, 29 March 2023, ‘Japan makes renewed push to internationalize higher education’, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/29/national/international-students-increase-plan-2/.
• JNTO, 2023a, ‘Kokuseki/Tsukibetsu Hōnichi Gaikyakusū (2003nen-2023nen)’, https://www.jnto.go.jp/statistics/data/since2003_visitor_arrivals_June_2023.xlsx.
• JNTO, 2023b, ‘Japanese Overseas Travelers by Destination’, https://www.jnto.go.jp/statistics/data/pdf/20220610_4.pdf.
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• Krauss, E., 2000, Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News, Cornell University Press.
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• Olympics, 2022, ‘The Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony – in FULL LENGTH’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u6uCbe6zh8.
• Rugby Town Kamaishi (2020), ‘Ragubī-no-machi Kamaishi 〜 Rugby Town Kamaishi 〜’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDhotZCyVY.
• Young, V., 2021, ‘Beyond “transborder”: Tawada Yōko’s Vision of Another World Literature’, Japanese Language and Literature, 55:1, https://doi.org/10.5195/jll.2021.181.