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

Akira Mizuta Lippit i

From Rensageki to Kinodrama

Iwamoto Kenji 1

The Origins of Censorship: Police and Motion Pictures in the Taisho Period

Hase Masato 14

Modernity, Cinema, and the Body: Analysis of the Shochiku Kamata Film Wakamono yo naze naku ka? (Why Do the Youth Cry?; 1930)

Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano 24

History in Film Style: On Absent Cause in Mizoguchi Films from the 1950s

Mukudai Chiharu 34

Postcolonial Conditions Explained to Japanese Children

Ukai Satoshi 46

Antigraphy: Notes on Atomic Writing and Postwar Japanese Cinema

Akira Mizuta Lippit 56

Fiction:
Oan monogatari (The Tale of an Olad Nun)

Tani Kakimori 66