Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay

Introduction (Rachael Hutchinson), Part 1-Analog and Mechanical Games., Chapter 1: The Virtuality of Japanese Playing Cards: Immersion and Transgression in Early Modern Material Culture (Drisana Misra)Chapter 2: Eating Your Way through Sugoroku: Imaginary Travel in a Japanese Board Game (Bianca Chui)Chapter 3: Three Studies for a Material History of Japanese Board Games (Nathan Altice), Chapter 4: Participatory Storytelling as a Media Platform: TRPGs, Gamebooks, Readers' Columns, and Play-by-Mail in Japanese Analog RPGs (Satomi Saito), Chapter 5: On the Play of Yakumono: The Evolution of Audiovisual Effects in Pachinko (Keiji Amano and Geoffrey Rockwell), Part 2-Gameplay Spaces., Chapter 6: Embodied Play in Japan: From Escape Rooms to Larp (Live Action Role-Play) (Bjoern Ole-Kamm), Chapter 7: Cabinets in the City: Game Centers, Street Gamers and Urbanity through Virtua Fighter (Jeremie Pelletier-Gagnon), Chapter 8: Why has Japan's Esports Development Been So Slow? (Akira Igarashi and Yuhsuke Koyama), Chapter 9: Convergence and Cosmopolitanism in Online Games: Non-Japanese Players on Japanese Final Fantasy XIV Servers (Mattias van Ommen), Chapter 10: Playing with Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the Japanese, Korean and Chinese YouTube Space (Martin Roth), Part 3-Game Analysis., Chapter 11: Salarymen, Samurai, and the State: Masculinity at Play in Feudal Era War Games (Keita Moore);, Chapter 12: Othering Masculinity: Disability and Chivalry in the Yakuza Series (Frank Mondelli and Rachael Hutchinson), Chapter 13: The Flavor of Late Sh.wa: Coziness, Food, and Nostalgia in Gagex Games (Victor Navarro-Remesal and Beatriz Perez Zapata), Chapter 14: The Destruction of Raccoon City (again): Japanese Collective Memory Discourse, the Atomic Bombs, and Resident Evil 3 (Ryan Scheiding), Part 4-Game Industry., Chapter 15: The Dawn of Videogames in Japan as Viewed from the Toy Industry (Hitomi Mohri), Chapter 16: Ladies, Leave, and Corporate Liability? Personnel Policies in the Japanese Game Industry (Tsugumi (Mimi) Okabe), Chapter 17: Restructuring and Redeveloping Final Fantasy: Square Enix's Strategic Survival in a Tumultuous Industrial Landscape, 2000-2020 (K.T. Wong), Chapter 18: The Gundam Games Ecology in a Media Industry Perspective (Susana Tosca and Akinori Nakamura), Part 5-Game Mediations., Chapter 19: Music on the Edge (Connector): Demixing the Sound of the NES and Famicom (James Newman), Chapter 20: Changing the Game to Keep it the Same: The Paradox of Localization (Amy Dawson-Andoh), Chapter 21: Playing at Romance: Otome Games and Fan Cultures (Sarah Christina Ganzon).