On culture and technology in postmodern Japan / Tetsuo Najita -- Critical texts, mass artifacts: the consumption of knowledge in postmodern Japan / Marilyn Ivy -- Of city, nation, and style / Isozaki Arata -- Visible discourses/invisible ideologies / H.D. Harootunian -- Modernity and its critique: the problem of universalism and particularism / Naoki Sakai -- Maruyama Masao and the incomplete project of modernity / J. Victor Koschmann -- Against the native grain: the Japanese novel and the "postmodern" West / Masao Miyoshi -- Somehow: the postmodern as atmosphere / Norma Field -- Japan's dual identity: a writer's dilemma / Ōe Kenzaburō -- Suicide and the Japanese postmodern: a postnarrative paradigm? / Alan Wolfe -- Karatani Kōjin's Origins of modern Japanese literature / Brett de Bary -- One spirit, two nineteenth centuries / Karatani Kōjin -- Infantile capitalism and Japan's postmodernism: a fairy tale / Asada Akira -- Picturing Japan: reflections on the workshop / Stephen Melville
