This is a collection of previously unpublished articles by established as well as promising young scholars in Japanese language and gender studies.

The book examines women’s language as an ideological construct historically created by discourse. The aim is to demonstrate, by delineating a genealogy of Jap

Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express di

Abe presents a comprehensive picture of the linguistic strategies employed by Japanese sexual minorities in various social contexts, from magazine advice column

The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucia