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Vol.083 Special Feature:“Multiple Japan” – Moving Toward a More Diverse Society
  • Photographic Report
    East of the Orient: The Story of Japanese Handicrafts in the National Palaces of Turkey    		 by Miyuki Aoki Girardelli
  • Forward
    “Multiple Japan” – Moving Toward a More Diverse Society    		 by Tadashi Karube
  • Special Feature: “Multiple Japan” – Moving Toward a More Diverse Society
    Japan’s Forgotten History of Sexual Diversity    		 by Junko Mitsuhashi
  • Regional Multiculturalism in Japan:
    Who Are One’s Compatriots?    		 by Koichi Taniguchi
  • The War Between Exclusion and Inclusion:
    Recent LGBT Trends    		 by Yuko Higashi
  • Thoughts on Ethnic Minority Businesses in Japan by Naoto Higuchi
  • The “Half” Mystique:
    Japanese Stereotypes About the Children of Mixed Marriages    		 by Sandra Haefelin
  • Dynamics of Muslim Society in Japan by Masako Kudo
  • How Japan Was Born: Ethnographic Evidence by Junzo Kawada
  • Knowledge Transmitted to Japan via Kanji:
    The Birth of Japanese-style
    Intellectuals as Adapters and Transmitters of Foreign Languages and Cultures    		 by Makoto Ueno
  • Essays
    The Collaboration of Koetsu and Sotatsu:
    On Their “Poetry Anthology with Cranes”    		 by Toru Haga
  • The Universe-Scale Art Works of Cai Guo-Qiang by Shuji Takashina
  • Dialogue
    A Dialogue on Science and Philosophy Between Hirosi Ooguri and Masakazu Yamazaki, moderated by Masashi Miura    		  
  • Articles
    Seeking a New Image of Science in a New Century    		 by Satoshi Nozawa
  • A Comparison of Japanese and Chinese Aesthetics:
    The Chinese Orthodoxy of Squares and Circles, Symmetry, and “Self-Similarity”    		 by Toru Kato
  • Essays
    A Bold Traffic Experiment in Kyoto    		 by Satoshi Machidori
  • Putin and the Creation of a Ukrainian Identity by Masayuki Tadokoro
  • Correspondence on Current Thought
    A Plea for the Humanities: Publishing the Letters
    of Pioneering Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure    		 by Morio Tagai
  • The Paradox of American Plenty by Wataru Nakazawa
  • The Age of Noise: The Critical Point of Music and Modernity by Yohei Nagato
  • Essays
    How Events Were Recorded in the 1964 Documentary “Tokyo Olympiad”    		 by Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Architects and the Olympics by Terunobu Fujimori
  • Thoughts on Slave-Making Ants and Idleness by Daisaburo Okumoto
  • Interview
    Think Tanks and American Politics:
    An Interview with Scott Bates    		 by Tomoyuki Miyata
  • Serial
    Philosophy of Rhythm Notes: Part 6 (2):
    Rhythm and Natural Science    		 by Masakazu Yamazaki
  • Forum Report
    Reexamining Japan in Global Context