Contemporary Japan Volume 38 Issue 1 is out! The six original research articles include “Rainbows and Ratings: Assessing indices of LGBTQ+ inclusivity in the Japanese workplace” (Clasen & Conrad) on Japanese companies attempts at improving diversity, “Perks or burdens? Being ‘nearly (Im)mobile’ as IT foreign professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan” (Muranaka) on Vietnamese IT professionals, “Leadership in crisis: Comparing Prime Minister Abe’s and Chancellor Merkel’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic” (Gaunder & Wiliarty) on leadership style, institutional coordination, and policy narratives, “Portraying the refugee crisis: The framing of Afghan, Burmese, and Ukrainian asylum seekers in Japanese print media” (Mitsui & Green) on media portrayals of refugees/asylum seekers, “The Bibliography of Post-War Documentary Literature: Processing war and defeat in post-World War II Japan” (Jeong) on subjective narratives in postwar literature, and “Workers’ uprising: Japanese factories and labor movement in Thailand during the Pacific War” (Takahashi) on anti-colonial labor activism during the Pacific War. The articles are complemented by Wolfram Manzenreiter’s review of Kate Sylvester’s book Women and Martial Art in Japan.