In this Issue

Table of Contents

Between Disaster, Medium 3.11

Akira Mizuta Lippit
pp. 3-15
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The Land of Hope: Planetary Cartographies of Fukushima, 2012

Christophe Thouny
pp. 17-34
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Tokyo Apparatus (Version 1.0)

Sabu Kohso
pp. 36-53
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Good Morning: A Postdisaster Palm-of-the-Hand Story

Hoshino Tomoyuki, Brian Bergstrom
pp. 55-60
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Record of Dying Days: The Alternate History of Ōoku

Andrea Horbinski
pp. 63-79
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Deconstructing the Taikō: The Problem of Hideyoshi as Postwar Business Model

Susan W. Furukawa
pp. 81-96
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A Nation Restored: The Utopian Future of Japan’s Far Right

Matthew Penney
pp. 98-112
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Nanohana

Moto Hagio, Rachel Thorn, Frenchy Lunning
pp. 114-140
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Beyond the Horizon of the Possible Worlds: A Historical Overview of Japanese Media Franchises

Satomi Saito
pp. 143-161
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What Can a Vocaloid Do?: The Kyara as Body without Organs

Sandra Annett
pp. 163-177
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A World without Pain: Therapeutic Robots and the Analgesic Imagination

Steven R. Anderson
pp. 179-191
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The Girl at the End of Time: Temporality, (P)remediation, and Narrative Freedom in Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Forrest Greenwood
pp. 195-207
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Animated Nature: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Empathy in Miyazaki Hayao’s Ecophilosophy

Pamela Gossin
pp. 209-234
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Ominous Images of Youth: Worlds, Identities, and Violence in Japanese News Media and When They Cry

Brett Hack
pp. 236-250
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Parallel Universes, Vertical Worlds, and the Nation as Palimpsest in Murakami Ryū’s The World Five Minutes from Now

Kendall Heitzman
pp. 252-266
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Acknowledgments

pp. ix-xi
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Introduction: Counterfactual Histories, Parallel Universes, and Possible Worlds

Frenchy Lunning
pp. xiii-xvii
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Contributors

pp. 267-268
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