Writing

“The Ecocinematics of Asian Nuclear Disaster: Visualizing Fukushima in the Netflix series The Days.” Jeff Kyong-McClain and Yuta Kaminish, eds., East Asian Eco-Cinema: Between Nation and Planet, Edinburgh UP 

“Nuclear Anxiety, Environmental Crisis, and the Materiality of Waste in Kōbō Abe’s Cold War novel Ark Sakura (1984).” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. December 12, 2025. isaf093, (open access) https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf093 

“Defying the Nation: Nuclear Disasters and Japan.” In Mai Kataoka, Timon Screech, Oliver White, eds., Global Japanese History and Culture: De-Isolating Japan from Past to Present. Routledge, 2026.

“Slow Violence and Japan’s Nuclear Future: Kirino Natsuo’s Baraka.” In Michele Mason and Hester Baer, eds., Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age. Palgrave Macmillan, Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment Series, 2024.  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-63024-8.

“The Toxic Vitality of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Charisma.” In Rachel DiNitto, ed., Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies/Columbia UP, 2024 . https://cup.columbia.edu/book/eco-disasters-in-japanese-cinema/9781952636509/.

“Narrating Nuclear Geographies and Victims: The Late Fiction and Essays of Tsushima Yūko.” In Stephan Kohn and Katharina Hulsmann, eds., Articulations of the Nuclear: Postwar Japan Under the Spell of the Atomic Age. Germany: Harassowitz Verlag, 2024 . https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/titel_7476.ahtml.

“Corona Diaries and the ‘Boring Apocalypse’ in Japan.” In Mina Qiao, ed., The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture. Routledge, 2023 . https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003341154/coronavirus-pandemic-japanese-literature-popular-culture-mina-qiao.

“Chernobyl’s Past and Fukushima’s Remembered Future” In Linda Flores and Barbara Geilhorn, eds., Literature After Fukushima: From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity. London: Routledge, 2023. https://www.routledge.com/Literature-After-Fukushima-From-Marginalized-Voices-to-Nuclear-Futurity/Flores-Geilhorn/p/book/9781032258584.

“Teaching Disaster—The Fiction of 3/11.” In Alex Bates, ed., Teaching Postwar Japanese Fiction. Modern Language Association Options for Teaching Series, 2022. https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Options-for-Teaching/Teaching-Postwar-Japanese-Fiction.

“Writing Human Disaster: Hayashi Kyōko, Ishimure Michiko, and Kawakami Hiromi.” In Rebecca Copeland, ed., Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers. Japan Documents Publishing, 2022. https://www.mhmjapandocuments.com/copy-of-handbook-of-japanese-christia.

“Atomic Metaphors, Victims, and the Contestations of Nuclear Discourse.” Religions. 2021; 12(11):962. Special Issue: Religion and the Atomic Age. Open access.  https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/11/962.

「汚染の言説としての「狂気」―チェルノブイリとフクシマにおける汚染のナラティブをめぐって」(Insanity as Toxic Discourse: Narratives of Pollution in Chernobyl and Fukushima). In Saeko Kimura and Ann Bayard-Sakai, eds., 『世界文学としての＜震災後文学＞』(Postdisaster Fiction as World Literature). Tokyo: Akashi shoten, 2021 . https://www.akashi.co.jp/book/b559656.html.

 “Envisioning Nuclear Futures: Shiriagari Kotobuki’s Manga from Hope to Despair.” In Roman Rosenbaum, ed., The Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga: The Visual Literacy of Statecraft. London: Routledge, 2021 . https://www.routledge.com/The-Representation-of-Japanese-Politics-in-Manga-The-Visual-Literacy-Of-Statecraft/Rosenbaum/p/book/9780367617899.

“Toxic Interdependencies: 3/11 Cinema.” In Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Phillips, eds., The Japanese Cinema Book, Chapter 27: Ecology. London: British Film Institute/Bloomsbury, 2020 . https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/japanese-cinema-book-9781844576784/.

“The Fukushima Fiction Film: Gender and the Discourse of Nuclear Containment.” The Asia-Pacific Journal 16, no. 1.1 (January 1, 2018). https://apjjf.org/2018/01/DiNitto.

 “Literature Maps Disaster: The Contending Narratives of 3.11 Fiction.” In Barbara Geilhorn and Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, eds., Negotiating Disaster: 'Fukushima' and the Arts, 21-38. London: Routledge, 2017 . https://www.routledge.com/Fukushima-and-the-Arts-Negotiating-Nuclear-Disaster/Geilhorn-Iwata-Weickgenannt/p/book/9781138606708.

“Narrating the Cultural Trauma of 3/11: The Debris of Post-Fukushima Literature and Film.” Japan Forum Special Issue Beyond Fukushima: Culture, Media, and Meaning from Catastrophe. 26.3 (2014): 340-60 . https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09555803.2014.915867.