JICPAS issues an English-language magazine "Review of Japanese Culture and Society" offering an international analysis of Japanese people and culture. This magazine is published with a view to enhance international recognition of Japanese culture and its society as well as to stimulate mutual understanding and study the methods of cultural theory.
- Introduction: The Theory Complex
- Aaron Gerow
- Does Film Theory Exist in Japan?
(translated by Joanne Bernardi)
- Satō Tadao
- The Principles and Applications of the
Moving Pictures (Excerpts)
(translated by Aaron Gerow)
- Gonda Yasunosuke
- The Process of Theory: Reading Gonda
Yasunosuke and Early Film Theory
- Aaron Gerow
- A Theory of the Animated Sound Film
(translated by Michael Baskett)
- Imamura Taihei
- A Theory of Film Documentary
(translated by Michael Baskett)
- Imamura Taihei
- Approaching Imamura Taihei: Film Theory
and Originality
(translated by Phil Kaffen)
- Irie Yoshirō
- Film Theory and the Crisis in
Contemporary Aesthetics
(translated by Phil Kaffen)
- Nakai Masakazu
- An Assault on “Meaning”: On Nakai
Masakazu’s Concept of “Mediation”
(translated by Alex Zahlten)
- Kitada Akihiro
- My Theory of Film: A Logic of Self-Negation
(translated by Patrick Noonan)
- Yoshida Kijū
- The Alterity of Cinema: Subjectivity,
Self-Negation, and Self-Realization in
Yoshida Kijū’s Film Criticism
- Patrick Noonan
- An Impaired Eye: Hasumi Shigehiko on
Cinema and Stupidity
- Ryan Cook
- Ozu, or On the Gesture
(translated by Kendall Heitzman)
- Nakamura Hideyuki
- Fiction:
- Asakusa Park: A Certain Film Script
(translated by Kyoko Selden)
- Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
- On the Contributors
