The development of phenomenological philosophy in Japan is a well-established tradition that reaches back to the early 20th-century. The past decades have witnessed significant contributions and advances in different areas of phenomenological thought in Japan that remain unknown, or only partially known, to an international philosophical public. This volume offers a selection of original phenomenological research in Japan to an international audience in the form of an English language publication. The contributions in this volume range over classical figures in the phenomenological movement (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Monty), recent trends in French phenomenology, and contemporary inter-disciplinary approaches. In addition to this diverse engagement with European thinkers, many of the contributions in this volume establish critical and complimentary discussions with 20th-century Japanese philosophers.

Nicolas de Warren is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Among his numerous publications in phenomenology, history of philosophy, literature, and Continental thought, he is the author of A Momentary Breathlessness in the Sadness of Time: On Krzysztof Michalski's Nietzsche (2018) and co-editor of Philosophers at the Front. Phenomenology and the First World War (2018).

Shigeru Taguchi is Professor of Philosophy at Hokkaido University. He is the author of Das Problem des ,Ur-Ich' bei Edmund Husserl. Die Frage nach der selbstverständlichen ,Nähe' des Selbst (2006) and numerous articles in phenomenology and Japanese philosophy.

Chapter 1: Akrasia and Practical Rationality: A Phenomenological Approach (Takashi Yoshikawa).- Chapter 2: How is Time Constituted in Consciousness? Three Apprehension Theories in Husserl's Phenomenology of Time (Norio Murata).- Chapter 3: Things and Reality: A Problem from Husserl's Constitution (Takeshi Akiba).- Chapter 4: Phantasieleib and the Method of Phenomenological Qualitative Research (Yasuhiko Murakami).- Chapter 5: Truth and Sincerity: The Concept of Truth in Levinas' Philosophy (Shojiro Kotegawa).- Chapter 6: Martin Heidegger and the Question of Translation (Takashi Ikeda).- Chapter 7: TBD (Norio Murai).- Chapter 8 : Phénoménologie, Métaphysique, Philosophie Comparée-- Esquisse d'une Phénoménologie Positive (Shin Nagai).- Chapter 9: A Husserlian Account of the Affective Cognition of Value (Toru Yaegashi).- Chapter 10: Husserl on Experience, Expression, and Reason (Shun Sato).- Chapter 11: Demystifying Roman Ingarden's Purely Intentional Objects of Perception (Genki Uemura).- Chapter 12: On the Transcendence and Reality of Husserlian Objects (Yutaka Tomiyama).- Chapter 13: Neither One nor Many: Husserl on the Primal Mode of the I (Shigeru Taguchi).