Ashley Pearson is a PhD candidate at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.Thomas Giddens is a Senior Lecturer at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, United Kingdom.Kieran Tranter is an Associate Professor at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.

• Table of ContentsList of illustrationsPrefaceList of contributors Crime Fighting Robots and Duelling Pocket Monsters: Law and Justice in Japanese Popular CultureAshley Pearson, Thom Giddens and Kieran TranterPART I: Possibilities of Justice The Symptoms of the Just: Psycho-Pass, Judg(e)ment, and the Asymptomatic CommonsDaniel Hourigan Pirates, Giants and the State: Legal Authority in Manga and AnimeJames C. Fisher Traumatic Origins in Hart and RinguPenny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk Justice in the Sea of Corruption: Nausicaä as Ecological JurisprudenceThomas Giddens Masterful Trainers and Villainous Liberators: Law and justice in Pokémon Black and WhiteDale MitchellPART II: The Legal Subject Doing Right in the World with 100,000 Horsepower: Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), Essence, Posthumanity and Techno-humanismKieran Tranter Caught in Couture: Regulating Clothing and the Body in Kill la Kill Rosie Taylor-Harding Holy Trans-Jurisdictional Representations of Justice, Batman!": Globalisation, Persona and Mask in Kuwata’s Batmanga and Morrison’s Batman, IncorporatedTimothy D. PetersPART III: The Power and Problem of the Image ‘Finding the Law’ through Creating and Consuming Gay Manga in Japan: From Heteronormativity to Queer ActivismThomas Baudinette Regulating Counterpublics in Yaoi Online Fan CommunitiesScott Beattie ‘Is Yaoi Illegal?!’: Let’s Get Real about the Potential Criminalisation of Yaoi Hadeel Al-Alosi Constitutional Analysis of Secondary Works in Japan: From Otaku to the WorldYuichiro TsujiPART IV: Specificities of Law and Justice in Everyday Japan ‘The World is Rotten’: Execution and Power in Death Note and the Japanese Capital Punishment SystemAshley Pearson Debts, Family, and Identity after the Collapse of the Bubble: Miyabe Miyuki’s All She Was WorthGiorgio Fabio Colombo Rules and Unruliness in Manga Depictions of Community Police BoxesRichard Powell and Hideyuki Kumaki The Image-Characters of Criminal Justice in TokyoPeter D. Rush and Alison YoungIndex

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