This book explores desire through the work of a new generation of Japanese women writers, in response to the increased attention these writers have received fol

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This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English. Disrupting the narra

In the last two decades, maternal scholarship has grown exponentially. Despite this, however, there are still numerous areas which remain under-researched, one

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