Titel	Contemporary Japan. Journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo
Year Published	2016	Vol./No.	Vol. 28 No. 1, 2016
ISSN	1869-2729	Holding Number	BZ029-1	DIJ-No.	0006260

Article	Author	Pages
Ethnographies of hope in contemporary Japan
Introduction. Reorienting hopes	Kavedzija, Iza	1-11
Hope in an ageing Japan. Transience and transcendence	Danely, Jason	13-31
Subculture as social knowledge. A hopeful reading of otaku culture	Hack, Brett	33-57
Hope found in lives lost. Karoshi and the pursuit of worker rights in Japan	North, Scott / Morioka, Rika	59-80
Hope amidst uncertainty. Foreign scientists in contemporary Japan	Puzo, Ieva	81-99
Hope that sustains. Revisiting New Year's divination at Suwa Taisha	Robertson, Stephen	101-122