Forthcoming Manuscripts

2027/2028 Sleuthing Shojo: The Girl Detective in Japanese Media, Bloomsbury Academic (Prospectus)

2028 The Japanese Videogame Theory Reader, Edited by Rachael Hutchinson, Frank   Mondelli, Tsugumi Okabe, and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, MIT Press (Prospectus)

2025 “Phantom Sleuths: Youth Agency and Social Justice in Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal” In Crime Does Play: The Detective Genre and its Videogame Adaptations, edited by Dean Bowman and James McLean, Bloomsbury (accepted)

2025 “Why are there so many Translations of Alice in Japan?” by Kimie Kusumoto and Mimi Okabe, Special Issue of the Journal of Asian Studies, edited by Amanda Kennell and Rebecca Corbett (Under review)

2025 “London Detective Mysteria: A Case Study on the Limitations and Potentials of the Otome Detective in Japanese Neo-Victorian Video Games.” In Victorians and  Videogames, edited by Brooke Cameron and Lin Young. Routledge (under review)

2025 “Detective.” In Keywords in Game Studies, edited by Christopher Paterson and Amanda Phillips. New York University Press (Under Review)

2025 “The City as Playground: Detection, Crime and Urban Space in J.B Dijian’s and Oliver Legrand’s The Baker Street Four Graphic Novel Series,” Retooling Tradition: Comparative Studies in Diverse Media, vol 46. no. 4. The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (in press)

2025 “From Holmes to Homuzu: An Introduction to Sherlock Holmes in Japanese Pop Culture,” Canadian Holmes, Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto, edited by Mark and JoAnn Alberstat (in progress).

Books

2023 Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation, Bloomsbury Academic

Referred Articles

2022 “Reading Jane Austen in Canadian Shōjo Manga: Risks and Rewards,” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 24, No. 2, 2022, pp. 84-94.

2021 Amano Keiji, Rockwell Geoffrey and Okabe Tsugumi. “Ethics and Gaming: A Content Analysis of Annual Reports of the Japanese Game Industry,” Replaying Japan Journal, vol. 3, 2021, pp. 11-20.

2019 Okabe, Tsugumi and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon. “Playing with Pain: The Politics of Asobigokoro in Enzai Falsely Accused.” Bringing Japan Game Studies and Digital Humanities, special issue of Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, vol 4. no. 1, 2019, pp. 37-53.

2019 Okabe, Tsugumi. “Global Partners against Crime: Rewriting Sherlock Holmes and Watson in Japanese Video Games.” Replaying Japan Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, pp.40-51.

2018 Okabe, Tsugumi. "Combating Youth Violence: The Emergence of Boy Sleuths in Japan’s Lost Decade." Mechademia Second Arc, University of Minnesota Press, vol. 11 no. 1, 2018, pp. 92-112.

2015 Okabe, Tsugumi. “Jane Austen in Translation: On Sisterhood and Romance in Mochizuki Reiko’s Sense and Sensibility.” Persuasions On-Line, Jane Austen Society of North America, vol. 36, no. 1, 2015.

Referred Book Chapters

2025 “Game-changing Policies in the Japanese Game Industry: Ladies, Leaves and Corporate Liabilities” The Handbook of Japanese Games, edited by Rachael Hutchinson, MHM Press and Amsterdam University Press, pp. 235-248.

2023 “Policing Youth: The Role of Detectives in Japanese Visual Novel Games” Introducing Japanese Popular Culture (Revised Edition), edited by Alisa Freedman, Routledge, 2023, pp. 81-87.

2022 Okabe, Tsugumi. “Starving Beauties? Instabae, Diet Food and Japanese Girl Culture,” Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation, edited by Zenia Kish and Emily Contois, University of Illinois Press, pp. 47-64.

2018 Okabe, Tsugumi. “Rule Makers vs. Rule Breakers: The Impact of Legislative Policies on Women Game Developers in the Japanese Game Industry.” Feminism in Play, edited by Kishonna L. Gray, Gerald Voorhees, Emma Vossen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 125-141.

Translations

2015 Pelletier-Gagnon, Jérémie and Tsugumi Okabe, translators. “The Game Freaks Who Play With Bugs—In Praise of the Video Game Xevious.” By Nakazawa Shin’ichi, Kinephanos: Médias et Culture Populaire, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015.

2017 Okabe, Tsugumi. “What Does Teaching Excellence Mean to You? Some Reflections on Pedagogy and Curriculum Design.” The Quad: Where UAlberta Meets Online, University of Alberta.

2017 Okabe, Tsugumi. “First Impressions Matterって言うけどさぁ.” The Polyglot Magazine of Poetry and Art: Subjective Fashion, guest edited by Elena Siemens. Issue 2, pp. 10-11.