Japan – January 2013
- Bones of contention : animals and religion in contemporary Japan / Barbara R. Ambros
- Plotting the prince : Shōtoku cults and the mapping of medieval Japanese Buddhism / Kevin Gray Carr
- Shinto shrines : a guide to the sacred sites of Japan’s ancient religion / Joseph Cali with John Dougill ; illustrations by Geoff Ciotti
- Local government migrant policies in Tokyo, Japan : national exclusion, local inclusion / Stephen Robert Nagy with a foreword by David Chapman
- Beyond the western liberal order : Yanaihara Tadao and empire as society / Ryoko Nakano.
- Japanese travellers in sixteenth-century Europe : a dialogue concerning the mission of the Japanese ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590) / edited and annotated with an introduction by Derek Massarella ; translated by J.F. Moran
- Japan’s emerging youth policy : getting young adults back to work / Tuukka Toivonen
- Education reform and social class in Japan / Takehiko Kariya ; translation edited by Michael Burtscher
- Holme, Ringer & Company : the rise and fall of a British enterprise in Japan (1868-1940) / by Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Death and dying in contemporary Japan / edited by Hikaru Suzuki
- Japanese automata : Karakuri zui : an eighteenth century Japanese manual of automatic mechanical devices / [Hosokawa Hanzō] Murakami Kazuo
- Drawing on tradition : manga, anime, and religion in contemporary Japan / Jolyon Baraka Thomas
- Supernatural beings from Japanese noh plays of the fifth group : parallel translations with running commentary / Chifumi Shimazaki & Stephen Comee.
- Two-timing modernity : homosocial narrative in modern Japanese fiction / J. Keith Vincent
- Modern Japan : a historical survey / Mikiso Hane, Louis G. Perez