Forthcoming Manuscripts

Manga, Murder and Mystery (in production with Bloomsbury).

“Policing Youth: The Role of Detectives in Japanese Visual Novel Games” Introducing Japanese Popular Culture (Revised Edition), edited by Alisa Freedman, Routledge (accepted July 2021).

“Game-changing Policies in the Japanese Game Industry: Ladies, Leaves and Corporate Liabilities” in The Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay, ed. Rachael Hutchinson, Tokyo: Japan Documents Press; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Accepted for publication; pages tbc. Forthcoming 2023.

“The City as Playground: Detection, Crime and Urban Space in J.B Dijian’s and Oliver Legrand’s The Baker Street Four Graphic Novel Series,” Retooling Tradition: Comparative Studies in Diverse Media, vol 46. no. 4. The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (in press, Fall 2021).

“From Holmes to Homuzu: An Introduction to Sherlock Holmes in Japanese Pop Culture,” Canadian Holmes, Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto, edited by Mark and JoAnn Alberstat (in progress).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2021 Amano Keiji, Rockwell Geoffrey and Okabe Tsugumi. “Ethics and Gaming: A Content Analysis of Annual Reports of the Japanese Game Industry,” Replaying Japan Journal, vol. 3, 2021, pp. 11-20.

2019 Okabe, Tsugumi and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon. “Playing with Pain: The Politics of Asobigokoro in Enzai Falsely Accused.” Bringing Japan Game Studies and Digital Humanities, special issue of Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, vol 4. no. 1, 2019, pp. 37-53.

2019 Okabe, Tsugumi. “Global Partners against Crime: Rewriting Sherlock Holmes and Watson in Japanese Video Games.” Replaying Japan Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, pp.40-51.

2018 Okabe, Tsugumi. "Combating Youth Violence: The Emergence of Boy Sleuths in Japan’s Lost Decade." Mechademia Second Arc, University of Minnesota Press, vol. 11 no. 1, 2018, pp. 92-112.

2015 Okabe, Tsugumi. “Jane Austen in Translation: On Sisterhood and Romance in Mochizuki Reiko’s Sense and Sensibility.” Persuasions On-Line, Jane Austen Society of North America, vol. 36, no. 1, 2015.

2013 Okabe, Tsugumi. “From Sherlock Holmes to ‘Heisei’ Holmes: Counter Orientalism and Post Modern Parody in Aoyama Gōshō’s Detective Conan Manga Series.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 15, no. 1, 2013, pp. 230-250.

Book Chapters

2022 Okabe, Tsugumi. “Starving Beauties? Instabae, Diet Food and Japanese Girl Culture,” Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation, edited by Zenia Kish and Emily Contois, University of Illinois Press.

2018 Okabe, Tsugumi. “Rule Makers vs. Rule Breakers: The Impact of Legislative Policies on Women Game Developers in the Japanese Game Industry.” Feminism in Play, edited by Kishonna L. Gray, Gerald Voorhees, Emma Vossen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 125-141.

Translations

2015 Pelletier-Gagnon, Jérémie and Tsugumi Okabe, translators. “The Game Freaks Who Play With Bugs—In Praise of the Video Game Xevious.” By Nakazawa Shin’ichi, Kinephanos: Médias et Culture Populaire, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015.

2017 Okabe, Tsugumi. “What Does Teaching Excellence Mean to You? Some Reflections on Pedagogy and Curriculum Design.” The Quad: Where UAlberta Meets Online, University of Alberta.

2017 Okabe, Tsugumi. “First Impressions Matterって言うけどさぁ.” The Polyglot Magazine of Poetry and Art: Subjective Fashion, guest edited by Elena Siemens. Issue 2, pp. 10-11.