This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant workers and consumers.

Iori Hamada is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Monash University, Australia. Much of her work to date has been concerned with making sense of how shared systems of ideas shape people's transnational experiences, which vary by culture, race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, social status, geographical location and other variables. In 2019, Iori was awarded the Institute of Social Science and Oxford University Press Prize for her co-authored journal article titled 'Silent Exits: Risk and Post-3.11 Skilled Migration from Japan to Australia'. In 2021, she was also awarded a Higher Education Academy Fellowship by Advance HE, United Kingdom.

1 Mapping Out the Japanese Restaurant 2. Folding Restauranteurs' Cross-Cultural Desires into the New Exotic 3. Eating Out and Tasting Japanese Gastro-Cool 4. Cross-Cultural Translation: Fitting the 'Foreign' Culinary Texts into Australia 5. The Exotic Genre's Formula: Japanese' Ethnicity in Demand 6. Conclusion