Titel	Contemporary Japan. Journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo
Year Published	2012	Vol./No.	Vol. 24 No. 1, 2012
ISSN	1869-2729	Holding Number	BZ029-1	DIJ-No.	0003244

Article	Author	Pages
Japan imagined. Popular culture, soft power, and Japan's changing image in Northeast and Southeast Asia	Otmazgin, Nissim Kadosh	1-19
Artists and wartime politics. Natori Yônosuke - a Japanese Riefenstahl?	Germer, Andrea	21-50
Memory and myth. The bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima in German and Japanese TV drama	Kirsch, Griseldis	51-70
Nippon's nostalgic national narrative. Ishihara Shintarô's kamikaze film "Ore"	Heinze, Ulrich	71-94
Rethinking Japan's democracy. Origins of "hybrid institutions" and their political consequences	Kohno, Masaru	95-112