Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 When Godzilla Speaks -- 2 Mobilizing Gojira: Mourning Modernity as Monstrosity -- 3 Gojira as Japan's First Postwar Media Event -- 4 Lost in Translation and Morphed in Transit: Godzilla in Cold War America -- 5 Wrestling with Godzilla: Intertextuality, Childish Spectatorship, and the National Body -- 6 Mothra's Gigantic Egg: Consuming the South Pacific in 1960s Japan -- 7 Hybridity and Negotiated Identity in Japanese Popular Culture -- 8 Teaching Godzilla: Classroom Encounters with a Cultural Icon -- 9 "Our First Kiss Had a Radioactive Taste": Ohashi Yasuhiko's Gojira in Japan and Canada -- 10 Godzilla Meets Super Kyōgen, or How a Dinosaur Saved the World -- 11 Monstering the Japanese Cute: Pink Globalization and Its Critics Abroad -- 12 Kikaida for Life: Cult Fandom in a Japanese Live-Action TV Show in Hawai'i -- 13 Apocalypse in Fantasy and Reality: Japanese Pop Culture in Contemporary Russia -- Epilogue: He Did the Stomp, He Did the Monster Stomp -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.