This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English.

Mina Qiao teaches Japanese literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her recent publications include Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature (2022, Lexington).

1. Corona Narratives as Return and a Reminder: An Introduction 2. Corona Diaries and the "Boring Apocalypse" in Japan 3. Of Miracles and Mourning: Reading COVID-19 Environmentally in Uchidate Makiko and Ito Seiko 4. Marginalizing Body and Space in Kanehara Hitomi's COVID-19 Literature 5. Senses and Emotions: Post COVID-19 Imaginations in Japanese Science Fiction 6. Open Becoming: A Disabled VTuber and Her Community in the Era of COVID-19 7. Narrating the Nation in a Global Crisis: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Japanese Morning Drama (Asadora) 8. Turning the Page: Reading Manga in the Pandemic Age 9. Pandemic and Mass Media: The Amabie Boom as Counterculture 10. Novelvirus Viral Novels and the Irony Poisoning of Social Media Engagement 11. Writing in the New Age of Pandemics