Academic Books
- Japan: The Basics (2014)
- Dealing With Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash (2011)
- The Politics of Modern Japan, 4 volumes, (2008), Editor
- Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan (2006)
- Japanese Education Reform: Nakasone’s Legacy (2001)
Other Non-Fiction Books
- Osutaka: A Chronicle of Loss in the World’s Largest Single Plane Crash (2018, Second Edition (First edition published in 2014))
- Doing Business with the Japanese (2003), co-editor with Prof G. Bownas and D. Powers (includes Chapter ‘Getting About in Japan’, 130-141.)
Novels
- FOUR – Iwakura Series Book 2 (2021)
- Tokyo 20/20 Vision – Iwakura Series Book 1 (2020)
- Hijacking Japan (2017)
Chapters in Books and Journal Articles
- ‘Japan Says “Western Pop”?: No Thanks, Don’t Do It’, BATJ Journal, ISSN 2398-953X, 24, 2023, pp.41-51.
- ‘Truth and Limitations: Japanese Media and Disasters’ – in Mithani, F., and Kirsch, G., eds.), 2022, Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition, Tokyo: MHM, 17-31. ISBN: 9784909286048.
- ‘Japanese Disaster Narratives of the Early Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change‘ – published in French in Ebisu Études japonaises as « Les récits de catastrophe japonais du début du XXIe siècle : continuité et changement », Ebisu, 59 | 2022, p. 95-123. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ebisu/6809 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/ebisu.6809
- ‘Kontentsu Tsuurizumu In Purein Saito – Seichi Toshite Koukuuki‘ in Yamamura, T. and Seaton, P. (eds.), Kontentsu Tsuurizumu – Media-o Oudan Suru Kontentsu to Ekkyou suru Fandamu, Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press (2021). ISBN 978-4832968677.
- ‘Disaster Narratives by Design: Is Japan Different?‘, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, August 2020, Vol.38, No.2, pp. 176-200.
- ‘Nakasone and JL123/Nakasone to Nikkō 123-bin’ in Aoyama, T., Nikkō 123-bin Tsuiraku Atsuryoku Kakuheiki Setsu-o Kutsugaesu, Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha (2020). Pages 218-229. ISBN: 978-3-309-02906-1
- ‘Contents Tourism in Plane Sight‘, in Seaton, P., and Yamamura, T., Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences, Channel View Publications (2020). ISBN 9781845417215
- ‘Developing a Model to Explain Modifications to Public Transportation Accident Memorials‘, Mortality, Volume 25, Number 2, November 2020, 449-69. DOI 10.1080/13576275.2019.1702009
- ‘Japan‘, ‘Maglev Trains‘ and ‘Rail Travel, Asia & Pacific‘ in Lowry, L. (ed.), The Sage Encyclopaedia of Travel and Tourism, Sage (2017). ISBN 9781483368948
- ‘Reporting the World’s Biggest Single Plane Crash‘ in Rausch, A. (ed.), Japanese Journalism and the Japanese Newspaper: A Supplemental Reader, Teneo Press (2014), pp.131-152. ISBN 9781934844700
- ‘Visualisation of Death in Japan: The Case of the Flight JL123 Crash‘ in Aaron, M. (ed.), Envisaging Death: Visual Culture and Dying, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2013), pp.120-139. ISBN 144384926X
- ‘Disaster and Death in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash‘ in Suzuki, H. (ed.), Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan: Shifting Social Structures and Values, Routledge (2012), pp.202-225. ISBN 978-0415631907 (Hb), 978-1-13-881565-0 (Pb)
- Contribution to the chapter ‘Contrasting Experiences of Growth and Decline in Regional Japan‘, in Japan’s Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline by P. Matanle and A. Rausch with the Shrinking Regions Research Group (eds.), Cambria Press (2011), pp.131-154, ISBN 9781604977585
- ‘The Shinkansen’s Local Impact‘, Social Science Japan Journal 2010, doi: 10.1093/ssjj/jyq004, February 2010
- ‘From polling station to political station? Politics and the shinkansen‘, Japan Forum, Volume 18, Number 1 / March 2006, pp. 45-63
- ‘Mad in Japan: Only Joking?‘ in Kondo K (ed.) Yuganda Kagami-ni Utsutta Nihon – Japan Reflected in a Cracked Mirror, Tokyo: GNAC (2005), ISBN 4-9902856-0-3, pp.250—8 (Japanese translation ‘Hon no Jōdan desuyo!‘ also in same book pp. 113-20)
- ‘The Third Great Reform of the Japanese Education System: Success in the 1980s Onwards‘, in Can the Japanese Change Their Education System? by R. Goodman and D. Phillips (eds.), Symposium Books (2003), pp.73-85, ISBN 1-873927-59-2
Other select articles
- ‘Conflicting and Complementary Demands after a Disaster: The Different Faces of Remembering the JL123 Crash’, Kamizono, Journal of the Meiji Jingu Intercultural Research Institute, No. 20, November 2018, 151-9.
- Translation of ‘Afterword‘ in Naonori Kohira (2015) 4/524, eBook version.
- ‘The Might Mo’ postcard on International Journal of Contents Tourism website
- ‘Black Rain – Dotonbori’ postcard on International Journal of Contents Tourism website
- ‘Osato Chemicals’ postcard on International Journal of Contents Tourism website
- ‘Akime’ postcard on International Journal of Contents Tourism website
- ‘Doai Station’ postcard on International Journal of Contents Tourism website
- ‘Kita Kanto Shimbun’ postcard on International Journal of Contents Tourism website
- ‘Ichinokura-sawa’ postcard on International Journal of Contents Tourism website
- ‘Fast Women: The Shinkansen and the Changing Japanese Gender Roles‘, September 2012
- ‘Kizuna: Examining the bonds of risk, tragedy, disaster and recovery in Japan‘, An STS Forum on Fukushima, Interdisciplinary conversations about Fukushima & the NE Japan Disaster, March 2012
- ‘Narratives on the World’s Worst Plane Crash: Flight JL123 in Print and on Screen‘, February 2009, Research Seminar Paper, Ref No.7, Cardiff Crimes Narrative Network, Cardiff University
- ‘Researching Japan’s Worst Plane Crash’, JAWS (Japan Anthropology Workshop) Newsletter, No.42, April 2008, ISSN 1356-5631, 38-40
- ‘Japan’s Railways‘, JapanVisitor, April 2007
- ‘The Shinkansen: Japan’s Iconic Railways‘, JapanVisitor, February 2007
- ‘Igirisu-ga hitsuyō-to suru mono – sore-wa shinkansen, kōkyō kōtsu no nichiei hikaku’, Comparative Law and Culture (Surugadai University Institute of Comparative Law Bulletin), Issue 14, 2006, 55-69
- Japan – A State Strategy for the Twenty-First Century (2002) by Yasuhiro Nakasone, translated Dr L. Connors, Dr C. P. Hood and Prof. T. Nishikawa
- ‘Biting The Bullet: What We Can Learn From the Shinkansen‘, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, Discussion Paper 3, 23 May 2001
- ‘The Election of Ishihara: A Symbol of Rising Nationalism in Japan?‘, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Briefing Paper, New Series No. 7, November, 1999
Book Reviews
I have also written many book reviews. Some of these I have also written posts about, other reviews can be found on external pages. Here are links to a selection of these – for a full list of those on this site, click here.
- An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo’s Commuter Train Network
- Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters
- Hiroshima-75
- New Frontiers in Japanese Studies
- Rewriting History in manga: Stories for the nation
- Seismic Japan: The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earthquake and When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan
- Seventeen
- The Cat and the City
- The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers
- Toppamono
- Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation
Christopher P. Hood 