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Gli argomenti trattati in questo numero: Introduction: semiotics and Japan; The empire and the signs: semiotics, cultural identity and ideology in Japanese history; Dakini et l'Empereur. Mystique bouddhique de la royauté dans le Japon médiéval; Illuminating the Illuminator: notes on a votive transcription of the Supreme Scripture of the Golden Light; A circle and a square : performance and setting in Bugaku; nature and culture in the Fudoki; Merveilleuse halietique balenière japonaise d'antan! Japanese and Mexicans in Holliwood eyes: Race, gender and power among cultures; youth, crisis and display: the rhetoric in shinjinrui in contemporary Japan; Japan's missing alternative; a semiotics of non-ordinary experience.