| Author | Title | Page number | 
                          
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 | Cover page | 
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                              | Yasushi KOSUGI | Introduction | ⅰ | 
                          
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 | Table of Contents | 
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 | Editorial Information | 
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                              | [Research Article] | 
                          
                              | Hiroaki MATSUSAKA | Empire, Solidarity, Intersectionality: Ishigaki Ayakoʼs Transnational Intellectual History | 1 | 
                          
                              | [Review Article] | 
                          
                              | Fumie MICHIGAMI | Trends and Challenges in Japanese Language Education for Skilled Workers | 24 | 
                          
                              | [Research Note] | 
                          
                              | Tadashi NISHIZAWA | Trends and Significance of Performance Criticism in Newspapers from 1896 to 1916 | 46 | 
                          
                              | [Research Reports] | 
                          
                              | Ryo TSUNODA | Considerations on the Imperial Japanese Army  and the Self-Defense Forces: A Case Study of the Participation of Former Self-Defense Force Members in Senyukai | 62 | 
                          
                              | Shunto KIMURA and Yuko YATO | Development of Child-rearing Support Measures in a Society with Declining Birthrates: Social Implementation of a Child-rearing Seminar to Reduce Parenting Stress and Improve the Quality of Parent-child Interactions | 67 | 
                          
                              | Yi SUN | Problematic Eating Behavior of 1~3 Year-Old Children and Maternal Mental Health: A Comparative Study between Japan and China | 72 | 
                          
                              | Jinhye LEE | Diasporic Return Migration and Challenge to Multicultural Symbiosis in Host Society: A Case Study of Korean Diaspora from the Former Soviet Union, Koryo Saram | 76 | 
                          
                              | Ammar KHASHAN | Research Report on the Current State and Prospects for Studies of Revitalized Islamic Economies in Southeast Asia: With a Special Emphasis on the Roles of an Asian Researchers’ Network | 82 | 
                          
                              | Emiko SUNAGA | Contributions from Islamic Area Studies  Using Archives to Digital Humanities: Status and Perspectives | 88 | 
                          
                              | Naho NAKAMURA | Perspectives on the Transformation of Society and Poetic Language in Contemporary Iran | 92 | 
                          
                              | [Book Reviews] | 
                          
                              | Chiaki KAGAWA | Good Death / Just Living (Shinya TATEIWA, Chikuma Shoten, 2022) | 98 | 
                          
                              | Kana NAKATSUKA | Rural Tourism with Empathy: Creating Human Mobility and Economic Circulation (Ritsuko KAWAMURA, Hitoshi NAKAMURA, Takako NAKAMURA, and Shinji TAKADA eds., Koyo Shobo, 2023) | 102 | 
                          
                              | Kenta YAMAMOTO | Handbook for Finding Food Materials(Hitoshi ARAKI, Kaoru KAMATANI, and Hiroki KIMURA, Showado, 2022) | 106 | 
                          
                              | Hiroyuki HARADA | Gastronomy Tourism: Food Culture and Tourism Regional Development (Takeo OIE, Takeshi TAKADA, and Naomi SUGIYAMA, Gakugei Shuppansha, 2023) | 108 | 
                          
                              | Kenji NAGASUMI | Delicious Kyoto Studies: The Historical Geography of Restaurant Culture(Masahiro KATO and Naomi KAWASUMI, Minerva Shobo, 2022) | 112 | 
                          
                              | Hisashi TOKUMITSU | Learning About Kyoto [Uji]: Discovering Cultural Resources (Kyoto Studies Research Group ed., Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2023) | 117 | 
                          
                              | Mutsuki YAMAMOTO | Resonating Digital Humanities and Digital Archives (Chikahiko SUZUKI ed., Ryo AKAMA et al., Benseisha, 2023) | 120 | 
                          
                              | Hideki OGURA | Research on the History of Japanese through Text Corpus: Medieval and Early Modern Period (Hirofumi AOKI, Tomoko OKAZAKI, and Toshinobu OGISO eds., Hitsuji Shobo, 2022) | 124 | 
                          
                              | Yasuto OKUNAKA | Chasing a Dream: The Life of Ai Iwahara, a Meiji Woman who Studied Music, Aya MARUYAMA, Bungeisha, 2024 | 129 | 
                          
                              | Hiroya NANAMI | The Meiji Restoration and “Public Debate”: Parliament, Majority Rule, and Consensus (Takanori IKOMI, Yoshikawa Kobundo, 2023) | 132 | 
                          
                              | Ikuno OCHI | Establishing and Inheriting Graves: The Disintegration of the “Family System” and the Perpetuality of Rituals (Atsuhiro TSUJII, Koyo Shobo, 2023) | 136 | 
                          
                              | Yuri MASUGI | Pre-War Japan’s Private Prostitution and Sex Industry in Mass Society: A Modern History of Sex Work and Romance (Yu TERAZAWA, Yushisha, 2022) | 141 | 
                          
                              | Aiichiro MOGI | Common Forests and Unknown Ownership Issues: "The Distinction between the Two and the Theory of the Right of Admission in the Modern Age", (Gakuto TAKAMURA, Kenzaburo KOZUMI, and Utako YAMASHITA eds., Iwanami Shoten, 2023) | 145 | 
                          
                              | Susumu NISHIOKA | Bid-Rigging and Democracy: Deals in Public Space (Reiko GOTO, Yoshinao TAMAI, Noboru MIYAWAKI eds., Shigakusha, 2022) | 149 | 
                          
                              | Toshiya KIMURA | Surveying the Historical Scene of Early Modern Japan I: Peace and Integration of the Archipelago in the Early Modern Period (Shigeyuki MAKIHARA and Kazuaki MURA eds., Tetsuya TANI et al., Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 2023) | 152 | 
                          
                              | Masami ISHII | Living Through Disasters: The Power of Stories and Locales From the Great East Japan Earthquake to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Kuniko MURAMOTO ed., Kokusho Kankokai, 2022) | 157 | 
                          
                              | Ryu SHIMABUKURO | Post-island Post-War History of Okinawa (Kei KOHAGURA, Yushisha, 2023) | 160 | 
                          
                              | Jung-Eun LEE | U.S. Forces in Korea and the Korean Community: U.S. Base Operations and Civil-Military Relations Policies 1945-1971 (Boun KUN, translated by Chihiro NARITA et al., Kesuisha, 2023) | 164 | 
                          
                              | Masato ITO | Tourism and Sexuality: Okinawa’s Postwar History of Compliance and Resistance (Misa OGAWA, Sogensha, 2023) | 167 | 
                          
                              | Yuting LIU | Challenges in Feminist and Gender Studies: Vision for an Alternative Society (Kazuho MUTA ed., Viktoriya KIM et al., Shokado Shoten, 2022) | 172 | 
                          
                              | Junko TORIYAMA | Victims and Perpetrators of Feminism: Perspectives after #MeToo (KWON-KIM Hyung-yeong eds, translated by Tsuyoshi KAGEMOTO and Didi HAN et al., eds., Kaiho Shuppansha, 2023) | 176 | 
                          
                              | Haruyo KUDO | The Structure of Grain and Oilseed Value Chains and Japan's Food Security: Trends of the 2020s (Mizuho HAYASHI, Takao NOGUCHI, Kohei YAGI, and Kazuhiko HOTTA et al., Norin-tokei Shuppan, 2023) | 181 | 
                          
                              | Shingo TERAOKA | Tourism Creates the World: Media, Content, and Reality in Tourism Sociology (Hiroshi SUDO, Hideki ENDO, Makoto YAMAGICHI, Koji KANDA, and Fumiaki TAKAOKA et al., eds., Akashi Shoten, 2023) | 184 | 
                          
                              | Liang LI | Visualization and Science, Culture and Society (Yuriko TAKESHIMA ed., Koronasha, 2023) | 188 | 
                          
                              | Kazuko SAWADA | International Students of Science and Engineering in Japan: Education, Research, and Student Life(Toru OTA, Yongsu AN, Takako MURAOKA, and Masami KADOKURA eds., Koko Shuppan, 2023) | 190 | 
                          
                              | Tomohiro SEKI | Commonalities and Diversities of Family Businesses and Succession in East Asia(Shaojie Dou, Mitsuo KAWAGUCHI, and Seongbong HONG, Bunshindo, 2023) | 192 | 
                          
                              | Seongbin HWANG | Contemporary History of K-POP: From the Birth of Korean Popular Music to BTS(Joho YAMAMOTO, Chikima Shinsho, 2022 | 196 | 
                          
                              | Ryo UMIHARA | Medicine and Confucianism: A Study on Medical Cultural Exchange and Knowledge Circulation in Early Modern East Asia(Jingjing XIANG, Jinbunshoin, 2023) | 200 | 
                          
                              | Tomoe IKEDA | A New Wind in Sinophone Literature(Der-wei WANG et al., eds., Yusuke MISU et al., trans., Hakusuisha, 2022) | 204 | 
                          
                              | Masaki HAGIWARA | Chinese and Japanese Poetry and Ci: A Study of the “Yan Xi Ci” and the Reception of Chinese Ci Poetries by the Japanese(Chunyu JIN, Hōyūshoten, 2023) | 208 | 
                          
                              | Xinhua MAO | Parenting and Education in Contemporary China: Challenges and Views of the Future from Developmental Psychology(Yuko YATO, Yuanhong JI, and Yi SUN eds., Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2023) | 212 | 
                          
                              | Hideyuki OKANO | Contemporary Cataclysmic Shifts in the Philippines: Deepening Neoliberalism, Modernization of Political Systems, and Distortions of Intimacy(Tamiki HARA, Zenta NISHIO, Natsuko SHIRAISHI, and Wataru KUSAKA, Kadensha, 2023) | 216 | 
                          
                              | Kensuke YAMAMOTO | Refugee Resettlement as a Global Issue: Considerations from the Foundation of the Belonging and Survival of Syrian Refugees in Foreign Countries(Aoi MOCHIZUKI, Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2023) | 220 | 
                          
                              | Ritsu YONEKURA | Japanese Media and the Intelligentsia after Fukushima: Disaster Culture( Katsuyuki HIDAKA, Routledge, 2022) | 224 | 
                          
                              | Goki ATOYAMA | Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Sciences and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Ran ZWIGENBERG, The University of Chicago Press, 2023) | 227 | 
                          
                              | Kengo SHIROGANE | Citizenship Education in the ASEAN Community(Toshifumi HIRATA ed.,  Springer Nature, 2023) | 231 |