Beverley Curran is a professor teaching linguistic, cultural, and media translation in the Department and Graduate School of Global Culture and Communication at Aichi Shukutoku University, Japan.Nana Sato-Rossberg is Lecturer in the School of Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.Kikuko Tanabe is an Associate Professor at Kobe College, Hyogo, Japan.

• Introduction 1. Death Note: Multilingual Manga and Multidimensional Translation Beverley Curran 2. Literature and Theatre into Film: Shindō Kaneto’s Kuroneko Titanilla Mátrai 3. Translating Kamui-gaiden: Intergeneric Translation from Manga to Live Action Film Nana Sato-Rossberg 4. The Revolution Cannot Be Translated: Transfiguring Discourses of Women’s Liberation in 1970s-1980s Japan James Welker 5. Catharine MacKinnon in Japanese: Toward a Radical Feminist Theory of Translation Caroline Norma 6. Translating Queer in Japan: Affective Identification and Translation in the ‘Gay Boom’ of the 1990s Jeffrey Angles 7. The Perils of Paisley and Weird Manwomen: Queer Crossings into Primetime J-TV via Telops Claire Maree 8. Translating Gendered Voices: From Tanizaki Junichirō’s Naomi to Yoshimoto Banana’s Kitchen Kim Jiyoung 9. Hirai Teiichi, the Japanese Translator of Dracula and Literary Shapeshifter Masaya Shimokusu 10. Yun Dong-ju’s poetry in Japanese translation Piao Yin-ji