(2011)_“Manga museal, oder: Wer legitimiert wen?” [Manga as Museum Art, or: What legitimizes what?] in Comic: Intermedialität und Legitimität eines popkulturellen Mediums [Comics: Intermediality and Legitimacy of a Pop-Cultural Medium], ed. by Thomas Becker, Essen & Bochum: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, pp. 177–192.
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Book:『国際マンガ研究』/Global Manga Studies (1)
Sekai no komikkusu to komikkusu no sekai/Comics Worlds and the World of Comics (Global Manga Studies, vol. 1; bilingual edition, English & Japanese), Kyoto: International Manga Research Center, 2010. Introduction, pp. 5–15. Print & Web. http://imrc.jp/lecture/2009/12/comics-in-the-world.html
(Proceedings of International Conference held at Kyoto International Manga Museum, December 2009.)

Book: Reading Manga (2006)
Reading Manga: Local and Global Perceptions of Japanese Comics, co-ed. with Steffi Richter, Leipzig: Leipzig University Press, 2006.
Including individually authored Introduction and individual chapter “‘Adult’ Manga: Maruo Suehiro’s historically ambiguous comics,” pp. 107–125.

Book: 『マン美研』 (2002)
Man-bi-ken: Manga no bi/gakuteki jigen e no sekkin [Towards an Aesthetics of Comics], Kyoto: Daigo shobō.
Introduction, pp. i–xv, and individual chapter “Tenji sareru manga: bijutsukan ni okeru manga no «bigaku»” [Exhibiting manga: The ‘Aesthetics’ of comics in the art museum], pp. 159–191.

Book chapter: Manga & “Art” (2001)
“Permeability and Othering: The Relevance of »Art« in Contemporary Japanese Manga Discourse,” in Critical Perspectives on Twentieth Century Japanese Thought, ed. by Livia Monnet, Montréal University Press 2001, pp. 349–375; https://books.openedition.org/pum/19887?lang=en
Book: Phänomen Manga (1995, German)
Phänomen Manga: Comic-Kultur in Japan, Berlin: edition q 1995
[Spanish trans. El Fenomeno Manga, Barcelona: Ediciones Martinez Roca 1996].

Book: マンガの国 ニッポン (1994)
Manga no kuni nippon: Nihon no taishū bunka, shikaku bunka no kanōsei [Japan, the country of manga: On popular culture, visual culture and comics in Japan], transl. by Satō Kazuo and Mizuno Kazuhiko, Tokyo: Kadensha, 1994/2007.
