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Table of Contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  3. pp. ix-xi
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  1. Introduction: Counterfactual Histories, Parallel Universes, and Possible Worlds
  2. Frenchy Lunning
  3. pp. xiii-xvii
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Passages of As Not

  1. Between Disaster, Medium 3.11
  2. Akira Mizuta Lippit
  3. pp. 3-15
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  1. The Land of Hope: Planetary Cartographies of Fukushima, 2012
  2. Christophe Thouny
  3. pp. 17-34
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  1. Tokyo Apparatus (Version 1.0)
  2. Sabu Kohso
  3. pp. 36-53
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  1. Good Morning: A Postdisaster Palm-of-the-Hand Story
  2. Hoshino Tomoyuki, Brian Bergstrom
  3. pp. 55-60
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Positions of What If

  1. Record of Dying Days: The Alternate History of Ōoku
  2. Andrea Horbinski
  3. pp. 63-79
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  1. Deconstructing the Taikō: The Problem of Hideyoshi as Postwar Business Model
  2. Susan W. Furukawa
  3. pp. 81-96
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  1. A Nation Restored: The Utopian Future of Japan’s Far Right
  2. Matthew Penney
  3. pp. 98-112
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  1. Nanohana
  2. Moto Hagio, Rachel Thorn, Frenchy Lunning
  3. pp. 114-140
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Worlds of As If

  1. Beyond the Horizon of the Possible Worlds: A Historical Overview of Japanese Media Franchises
  2. Satomi Saito
  3. pp. 143-161
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  1. What Can a Vocaloid Do?: The Kyara as Body without Organs
  2. Sandra Annett
  3. pp. 163-177
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  1. A World without Pain: Therapeutic Robots and the Analgesic Imagination
  2. Steven R. Anderson
  3. pp. 179-191
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Loops of Just Then

  1. The Girl at the End of Time: Temporality, (P)remediation, and Narrative Freedom in Puella Magi Madoka Magica
  2. Forrest Greenwood
  3. pp. 195-207
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  1. Animated Nature: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Empathy in Miyazaki Hayao’s Ecophilosophy
  2. Pamela Gossin
  3. pp. 209-234
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  1. Ominous Images of Youth: Worlds, Identities, and Violence in Japanese News Media and When They Cry
  2. Brett Hack
  3. pp. 236-250
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  1. Parallel Universes, Vertical Worlds, and the Nation as Palimpsest in Murakami Ryū’s The World Five Minutes from Now
  2. Kendall Heitzman
  3. pp. 252-266
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  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 267-268
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