Introduction: envisioning new frontiers in Japanese Studies Part 1: Rethinking Japanese area studies in the 21st century 1. Rethinking the Maria Luz Incident: methodological cosmopolitanism and Meiji Japan 2. Exporting theory made in Japan: the case of contents tourism 3. Japanese language education and Japanese Studies as intercultural learning 4. Japanese Studies in China and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1945-2018 5. Japanese Studies in Indonesia Part 2: Coping with an aging society 6. Discover tomorrow: Tokyos barrier-free Olympic legacy and the urban aging population 7. Foreign care workers in aging Japan: Filipino carers of the elderly in long-term care facilities 8. Immigrants caring for other immigrants: the case of the Kaagapay Oita Filipino Association Part 3: Migration and mobility 9. Invisible migrants from Sakhalin in the 1960s: a new page in Japanese migration studies 10. Japanese women in Korea in the postwar: between repatriation and returning home 11. Challenging the global in the global periphery: performances and negotiations of academic and personal identities among JET-alumni Japan scholars based in Japan 12. Dream vs. reality: the lives of Bangladeshi language students in Japan 13. Sending them over the seas: Japanese judges crossing legal boundaries through lived experiences in Australia 14. Life could not be better since I left Japan!: transnational mobility of Japanese individuals to Europe and the post-Fordist quest for subjective well-being outside Japan Part 4: The environment 15. Japans environmental injustice paradigm and transnational activism 16. Community power: renewable energy policy and production in post-Fukushimal£p