Selected Articles and Chapters
“Parkside Demolitionist,” the other side of hope, vol. 4, issue 1, autumn 2024, pp. 101–8.
“Tokyo, an Archaeology,” Echtrai Journal 3, September 2023, https://anmorstudio.uk/echtrai-journal-edition-3/.
“The Japanese Left Has a Complex and Turbulent History,” Jacobin, July 15, 2022, https://jacobin.com/2022/07/japan-new-old-left-jcp-long-60s.
“Shigenobu Fusako and the Haze of Cultural Memory,” criticalasianstudies.org Commentary Board, June 15, 2022, https://doi.org/10.52698/LFVE6790.
“The complex legacy of Fusako Shigenobu’s years in the Middle East,” The National News, June 14, 2022, https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/2022/06/14/the-complex-legacy-of-fusako-shigenobus-years-in-the-middle-east/.
“Tokyo 2020’s Celebration Capitalism: The Struggle over Public Space and Parks,” Review of Japanese Culture and Society, vol. 33, 2021, pp. 41–54. https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2021.a919556.
“1968 and the Culture of Speed,” Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival 2021 brochure, 2021.
“Anti-2020 als transnationale Bewegung: Die Schaffung autonomer Räume durch internationalen Protest und Solidarität” (Anti-2020 as a Transnational Movement: Creating Autonomous Spaces Through International Protest and Solidarity), trans. Dorothea Mladenova, in NOlympics. Tōkyō 2020/1 in der Kritik, eds. Steffi Richter, Andreas Singler, and Dorothea Mladenova, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2020, pp. 101–35.
“Playful Protests and Contested Urban Space: the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Protest Movement,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Volume 18, Issue 5, Number 17 (2020), https://apjjf.org/2020/5/Andrews.html.
“Zuihitsu, or Random Jottings, on the Archaeology of Tokyo Sites/Non-Sites,” in Tokyo Shift Responses, ed. Jonathan Kemp, Basel: Shift Register, 2019, pp. 53–61.
“The Japanese Left: An Interview with William Andrews,” Platypus Review 114 (March 2019), https://platypus1917.org/2019/03/02/an-interview-with-william-andrews.
“Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination and Modernity: Yuji Sone examines the enduring love of robots,” Japan Times, February 11, 2017, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/02/11/books/book-reviews/japanese-robot-culture-performance-imagination-modernity-yuji-sone-examines-enduring-love-robots/.
“Labor Groups Protest Reopening of Rail Lines Near Fukushima,” CounterPunch, December 15, 2016.
“Anti-nuclear Power Protest Tents in Tokyo Removed,” CounterPunch, September 9, 2016, https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/09/anti-nuclear-power-protest-tents-in-tokyo-removed/.
“Dance Dance Revolution,” Jacobin, September 1, 2016, https://jacobin.com/2016/09/japan-protest-flash-mobs-abe-pacifism-constitution.
“Butoh: the dance of death and disease,” Japan Times, May 28, 2016, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/05/28/books/book-reviews/butoh-dance-death-disease/.
“Tokyo v Beijing,” Baku International Magazine, spring 2016.
“Masao Adachi: Artist of Fasting,” ArtAsiaPacific (online), February 26, 2016, https://artasiapacific.com/ideas/masao-adachi-artist-of-fasting.
“Rey Camoy, little-known peripatetic Japanese painter of the human condition,” Tokyo Art Beat, July 13, 2015, https://www.tokyoartbeat.com/en/articles/-/rey-camoy.
“Trial Support Groups Lobby for Japanese Prisoner Rights, Fight to Rectify Injustices,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Volume 12, Issue 21, Number 2 (2014), https://apjjf.org/2014/12/21/William-Andrews/4120/article.html.
“Five activists win court fight but battle against Tokyo university is not over,” Japan Times, April 28, 2014, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/04/28/issues/five-activists-win-court-fight-but-battle-against-tokyo-university-is-not-over/.
“Wife fights decades-long battle to free Shibuya riot leader Hoshino,” Japan Times, November 18, 2013, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/11/18/issues/wife-fights-decades-long-battle-to-free-shibuya-riot-leader-hoshino/.
Fiction
“The Patch,” Sinking City (University of Miami), issue 13: winter/spring 2023, https://sinkingcity.as.miami.edu/william-andrews/.
Stage Plays
Private Portrait
Shortlisted for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award 2012 (final 10)
The Translators
Performance of first scene (August 2010, Soho Theatre Studio)
Rehearsed, semi-staged reading of full play (October 2010, Soho Theatre Studio)
Directed by Erica Miller