Contents

Vol.103 Sending Japanese Culture Out Into the World-Tradition and Possibility
  • Photographic Report
    Okinawan Theater Is Hot Now!    		 Kei Hibino
  • Commentaries
    Women Who Turned Into Plants    		 Dan Shao
  • The Fantasy of Meaningful Economic Effect From Returning Income to Taxpayer Pockets Takashi Unayama
  • The Tie Between Birth Mother and Child Mao Naka
  • Special Feature:
    Sending Japanese Culture Out Into the World
    — Tradition and Possibility
    Preface    		 Junko Saeki
  • The Whole Earth in a Tea Boul Junko Saeki
    talked with
    Genshitsu Sen,
    Grand Master XV,
    Urasenke Tradition
    of Tea
  • Japanese Culture at International Expositions—From 1970 to 2025 Shinya Hashizume
  • The International Dissemination of Japanese Samurai Culture
    — From Historical Stereotypes to Authentic Cultural Understanding    		 Frederik Cryns

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  • Washoku and Folk Culture Noritake Kanzaki
  • The Possibilities of Japanese Cuisine Yoshihiro Murata
  • The Essence of Japanese Music Yu Kuwabara
  • A Mission to Connect Culture and Life Junko Saeki
    questions
    Senko Ikenobo,
    Headmaster
    Designate
    of Ikenobo
  • Correspondence
    "Kala Pani" Poetics—The Contribution of the Indian Diaspora to Caribbean Thought    		 Tohru Nakamura
  • The Case of Palau in Efforts for the Recovery of the Remains of Japanese War Dead Seiichi Kikuchi
  • Everyday Memorialization of the Dead — Forgetting Without Trying to Forget Yuriko Sugiyama
  • From "Absurd" to "Unacceptable"
    — Danish Reaction to Trump’s Statements on Greenland    		 Minori Takahashi
  • Articles
    Baseball and Okinawa    		 Michiko Miyatake
  • A New Culture War—Germany Groping Toward Recovery of National Autonomy in the Context of International Political History Hajime Konno
  • Photographic Report
    The More Active Involvement With Images in Western Europe in the Middle Ages—From the Perspective of the Study of the Iconography of Arma Christi (the "weapons of Christ")    		 Izumi Florence Ota
  • Essays
    The Third Culture of John Brockman    		 Ryo Uehara
  • Who Do Research Materials Belong To? Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Nakanishi Godo and I Daisaburo Okumoto
  • Book Review
    From the Publication of "Shin Nihon" (Japan Resurgence, 2020) to " ‘Kaze no tani’ to iu kibo" ("Valley of the Wind" A Hope for Cultivating a Worthy Tomorrow, 2025)    		 Takero Doi questions Kazuto Ataka
  • Articles
    A Question of Confidence vs. Trust    		 Takashi Shiraishi
  • Exploring the Past and Present of a Country of Nomads
    — A Record of My Freewheeling Mongolian Tour    		 Kyo Cho
  • Essays
    Wooden Modernism in Japan    		 Terunobu Fujimori
  • One Manga Artist’s Dream Machiko Satonaka
  • Leaving My Successors in Xylophone and Kimono to the Gods Mutsumi Tsuuzaki
  • Who Will Buy Handicraft Works That Have Become Expensive Objets D’Art? Anna Toi
  • Series
    A Colette Style of Living
    Part 1. Public Education and Lesbianism    		 Shigeru Kashima
  • Symposium Report
    Masakazu Yamazaki’s Future—From Intellect to Emotion    		 Masashi Miura

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