| Articl | Author | Pages |
| Introduction: Happiness in Japan through the anthropological lens |
Manzenreiter, Wolfram / Holthus, Barbara |
1-21 |
| More than just "nakayoshi". Marital intimacy as a key to personal happiness |
Bloch, Dalit |
25-40 |
| Physical intimacy and happiness in Japan. Sexless marriages and parent-child co-sleeping |
Moriki, Yoshie |
41-52 |
| Happiness and unconventional life choices. Views of single women in Japan |
Nakano, Lynne |
53-66 |
| Friendships, marriage and happiness in contemporary Japan |
Dales, Laura |
67-85 |
| Grandfathering in contemporary Japan. Altruistic and self-serving means to happiness |
Umegaki-Costantini, Hiroko |
86-105 |
| Japanese gays, the closet and the culture-dependent concept of happiness |
Laurent, Erick |
106-122 |
| Makers and doers. Using actor-network theory to explore happiness in Japan's invisible civil society |
Steinhoff, Patricia G. |
125-143 |
| Dimensions of happiness for young political activists. A case study of "Greens Japan" members |
Holdgrün, Phoebe S. |
144-161 |
| Living and working for the moment. Motivations, aspirations and experiences of disaster volunteers in Tôhoku |
Klien, Susanne |
162-180 |
| "A really warm place". Well-being, place, and the experiences of "buraku" youth |
Bondy, Christopher |
181-194 |
| "My life is Taiyô Kômuten". On the relationship between organized football fandom and happiness in Japan |
Lieser, Martin |
195-210 |
| The midnight community, or under-the-counter happiness |
Săpunaru Tămaş, Carmen / Tămaş, Adrian O. |
211-224 |
| Happiness in neoliberal Japan |
Mathews, Gordon |
227-242 |
| Conclusion: Happiness as a balancing act between agency and social structure |
Holthus, Barbara / Manzenreiter, Wolfram |
243-255 |