- Representations of Female Protagonists in Videogames for the Japanese Console Game Market (Christina Gmeinbauer)
- Shimao Toshio‘s Concept of Yaponeshia (Liliane Höppe)
- Narratives of rape and trauma (Marija Tomic)
- Literature of the North. Representations of Iwate in Local Fiction (Tamara Kamerer)
- The Vagabond on Front Lines: Hayashi Fumiko's Wartime Writing (Adam Greguš)
