Representing the alternative: demographic change, migrant eldercare workers, and national imagination in Japan

De Gruyter published Contemporary Japan (CJ) from 2010 to 2016. Back issues are available on the journal home page.

Contemporary Japan (CJ) is the peer-reviewed biannual journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ), published by De Gruyter. All issues of Contemporary Japan are available open access.

The international editorial board consists of distinguished Japan specialists from a broad array of disciplines. The managing editors are Japan experts working for the DIJ.

Contemporary Japan publishes in-depth, original work from all disciplines as they relate to contemporary Japan and her historical roots. Manuscripts which cross disciplinary boundaries and raise larger issues of interest are also welcome, as are research notes.

De Gruyter published the first volume of Contemporary Japan (No. 22) in 2010. Back issues of the journal (formerly published under the title Japanstudien) are available from Iudicium Verlag GmbH at http://www.iudicium.de/katalog/0938-6491.htm. For more information please refer to the editorial website at: www.contemporary-japan.org.