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Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry
A Strange Tale from East of the River and Other Stories
Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction
Quicksand
Writing History, Writing Trauma
Literature in the Ashes of History
Software
Les Malheurs de Sophie
Rewriting Language: How Literary Texts Can Promote Inclusive Language Use
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Straight Is the Gate

The Journey to the East
The Glass Bead Game
Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
A Lost Paradise
A Wife in Musashino
Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan
Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force during the Cold War
Notice
Masculinity & Japan's Foreign Relations
Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan
Arousal
My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies
Broca's Brain
Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai
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Demon city / Magic city

Otogizoshi
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Run, Melos!

Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan
Erasure
Hybrid Heart
Tales of Japanese Justice
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Masks
Womb City
Like a Sister
Missing White Woman
家畜人ヤプー (角川文庫
As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality
Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937
Eugene Aram
All She Was Worth
Season of Violence
Deviations
Wild Thorns
The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan
Mort à crédit
Vullkanische Krieg = Balkan Kriege
The Decameron
The Empire of the Text
Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels
Madame Butterfly
The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War
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White Coolies

Japan’s Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism
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Popular Hits of the Showa Era

Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture
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Ghosts of the Vietnam War

The Fifth Risk
Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature
Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Boy Parts
The Ghost
The Book of the Dead
Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature
Diary of a Vagabond
My Asakusa: Coming of Age in Pre-War Tokyo
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Imperial Genus

Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan
Beyond the Pale of Vengeance
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歯車

Kappa
Record of a Night Too Brief
The Wind Rises
The End of the Moment We Had
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Clouds above the Hill

The Dark Ring of Murder
Tokyo Express
Beyond the blossoming fields
Hōjōki: A Hermit's Hut as Metaphor
Spring Garden
Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital
The Tattoo Murder Case
Homecoming
On the postcolony
The Kojiki
The Shards
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
From the Fatherland, with Love
The Old Capital
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Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone

Japanese Terror in China
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With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Snow Crash
Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer
The water margin
Dark Wars
Demon City Shinjuku: The Complete Edition