The following posts focus on the study of Japan, History of Japan, Japanese Literature, and other relevant studies of Japanese culture:

Tokyo to New York

The Literature of Location: Bilingual Reading in English and Japanese by Shibasaki Tomoka, with introduction by Kendall Heitzman (University of Iowa)

Manga: History, Expansion, and Translation

Global Anime: Hollywood, Fandom, and Twentieth-Century Federal Reserve Policies

Godzilla, Cool Japan, and the Making of a Global Icon