Contemporary Japan, Volume 32, Issue 1 (2020)

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Governing death and dying in Japan and its colonies – From state control to self-optimization

Editorial

Editorial
Message from the editor
Franz Waldenberger
Page: 1
Published online: 03 Mar 2020
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Governing death and dying in Japan and its colonies – From state control to self-optimization
Juljan Biontino, Dorothea Mladenova & Celia Spoden
Pages: 2-5
Published online: 03 Mar 2020
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Changes in funerary rites and burial practices in Modern Korea (1876–1945)
Juljan Biontino
Pages: 6-24
Published online: 28 Jan 2020
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Graveyard geomancy in Korea under Japanese rule – Focusing on the 1930s
Ri-Hye Han
Pages: 25-42
Published online: 05 Feb 2020
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The “improvement of funeral ceremonies” movement and the creation of “modern” Japanese subjects in Taiwan during Japanese rule
Chizuru Tainaka
Pages: 43-62
Published online: 13 Jan 2020
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Deciding one’s own death in advance: Biopower, living wills, and resistance to a legislation of death with dignity in Japan
Celia Spoden
Pages: 63-82
Published online: 17 Feb 2020
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Governing through kodokushi. Japan’s lonely deaths and their impact on community self-government
Nils Dahl
Pages: 83-102
Published online: 22 Oct 2019
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Optimizing one’s own death: The Shūkatsu industry and the enterprising self in a hyper-aged society
Dorothea Mladenova
Pages: 103-127
Published online: 11 Feb 2020
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VSJF Prize Paper

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Smartphones versus NHK? Mobilization strategies of the Japanese anti-nuclear movement under Abe’s restrictive media policy
Anna Wiemann
Pages: 128-140
Published online: 25 Jan 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Intimacy and reproduction in contemporary Japan
by Castro-Vázquez Genaro, London, Routledge, 2017, 214 pp., £36,99 (paperback), ISBN: 9780815361497; £120,00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781138640443
Nora Kottmann
Pages: 141-144
Published online: 22 May 2019
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An anthropology of the machine: Tokyo’s commuter train network
by Michael Fisch, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2018, xii, 284 pp. + index, (Hardcover) ISBN 978-0-226-55841-7, DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226558691.001.0001.
Florian Purkarthofer
Pages: 145-147
Published online: 13 Apr 2019
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Erratum

Correction
Erratum
Page: 148
Published online: 22 Mar 2017
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