1st Edition
The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture
1. Corona Narratives as Return and a Reminder: An Introduction
Mina Qiao
2. Corona Diaries and the "Boring Apocalypse" in Japan
Rachel DiNitto
3. Of Miracles and Mourning: Reading COVID-19 Environmentally
in Uchidate Makiko and Itō Seikō
Jon L. Pitt
4. Marginalizing Body and Space in Kanehara Hitomi’s COVID-19 Literature
Mina Qiao
5. Senses and Emotions: Post COVID-19 Imaginations in Japanese Science Fiction
Kazue Harada
6. Open Becoming: A Disabled VTuber and Her Community in the Era of COVID-19
Patrick W. Galbraith and Mark R. Bookman
7. Narrating the Nation in a Global Crisis: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Japanese Morning Drama (Asadora)
Elisabeth Scherer and Timo Thelen
8. Turning the Page: Reading Manga in the Pandemic Age
Julien Bouvard
9. Pandemic and Mass Media: The Amabie Boom as Counterculture
Anthony Bekirov
10. Novel-virus Viral Novels and the Irony Poisoning of Social Media Engagement
Jonathan E. Abel
11. Writing in the New Age of Pandemics
John Whittier Treat
Biography
Mina Qiao teaches Japanese literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her recent publications include Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature (2022, Lexington).
