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Christopher Hood
- Media commentator
Teams and roles for Christopher Hood
Reader in Japanese Studies
Overview
For details about my work please see the following page Christopher P. Hood (wordpress.com)
Publication
2025
- Hood, C. P. 2025. Dream Super-Express: A cultural history of the world's first bullet train, by Jessamyn Abel [Book Review]. Social Science Japan Journal 28(2) (10.1093/ssjj/jyaf013)
- Hood, C. and Hayes, C. J. 2025. Bonded by stereotypes, clichés, and tropes: introduction to themed issue “symbols of Japan”. New Readings 20, pp. i-xvi. (10.18573/newreadings.153)
2024
- Hood, C. 2024. Japan: The basics. 2nd Edition. London:: Routledge. (10.4324/9781003216704)
- Hood, C. 2024. Depicting the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: History and continued significance. In: Köhn, S. and Hülsmann, K. eds. Articulations of the Nuclear: Postwar Japan under the Spell of the Atomic Age., Vol. 13. Kulturwissenschaftliche Japanstudien Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 105-125.
- Hood, C. 2024. Japan says ‘Western Pop’?:No thanks, don’t do it. Presented at: 24th BATJ Conference, Cardiff, UK, 9-10 September 2022, Vol. 24. The British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language pp. 41-51.
2022
- Hood, C. P. 2022. Book Review. Japan Forum (10.1080/09555803.2022.2140181)
- Hood, C. P. 2022. Truth and limitations: Japanese media and disasters. In: Mithani, F. and Kirsch, G. eds. Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition. Japan Documents Handbook Series Tokyo: MHM, pp. 17-31.
- Hood, C. P. 2022. Les récits de catastrophe japonais du début du XXIe siècle : continuité et changement. Ebisu 59, pp. 95-123. (10.4000/ebisu.6809)
- Hood, C. 2022. Wings for the rising sun: a transnational history of Japanese aviation by Jürgen P. Melzer (2020, Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center) [Book Review]. The Journal of Japanese Studies 48(1), pp. 171-174. (10.1353/jjs.2022.0011)
2021
- Hood, C. 2021. Kontentsu Tsuurizumu In Purein Saito – Seichi Toshite Koukuuki. In: Kontentsu Tsuurizumu – Media-o Koudan Suru Kontentsu to Ekkyou suru Fandamu. Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press, pp. 263-283.
- Hood, C. 2021. William W. Kelly, The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan, University of California Press, Oakland, 2019, 315 pp [Book Review]. Japan Forum 33(3), pp. 445-447. (10.1080/09555803.2020.1776754)
2020
- Hood, C. 2020. Developing a model to explain modifications to public transportation accident memorials. Mortality 25(4), pp. 449-469. (10.1080/13576275.2019.1702009)
- Hood, C. 2020. Disaster narratives by design: Is Japan different?. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 38(2), pp. 176-200.
- Hood, C. 2020. Tragic remembrance, global sorrow: book review of Aya Fujiwara and David R. Marples (eds.), Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts [Book Review]. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 20(2)
- Hood, C. 2020. An anthropology of the machine: Tokyo’s commuter train network, by Michael Fisch, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, 320 pp., ISBN 9780226558554 [Review]. Social Science Japan Journal 23(2), pp. 346-348. (10.1093/ssjj/jyaa004)
- Hood, C. 2020. Nakasone and JL123/Nakasone to Nikkō 123-bin. In: Toko, A. and Cho, . eds. Nikkō 123-bin Tsuiraku Atsuryoku Kakuheiki Setsu-o Kutsugaesu. Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, pp. 218-229.
2018
- Hood, C. 2018. Conflicting and complementary demands after a disaster: The different faces of remembering the JL123 crash. Kamizono 20, pp. 151-159.
- Hood, C. 2018. Rewriting history in manga: Stories for the nation –Nissim Otmazgin & Rebecca Suter (Eds) [Book Review]. Mutual Images Journal 2018(4), pp. 108-110. (10.32926/2018.4.r.hoo.rewri)
- Hood, C. 2018. Review of ‘Seventeen’ by Hideo Yokoyama. The Japan Society Review 74
- Hood, C. 2018. Osutaka: A chronicle of loss in the world’s largest single plane crash. Caradoc Books.
2017
- Hood, C. 2017. Japan. In: Lowry, L. L. ed. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism. SAGE, pp. 698-701., (10.4135/9781483368924.n257)
- Hood, C. 2017. Rail travel, Asia & Pacific. In: The Sage Encyclopaedia of Travel and Tourism. Sage, pp. 999-1003., (10.4135/9781483368924.n370)
- Hood, C. 2017. Maglev trains. In: The Sage Encyclopaedia of Travel and Tourism. Sage, pp. 784-784., (http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483368924.n288)
- Hood, C. P. 2017. Seismic Japan: the long history and continuing legacy of the Ansei Edo earthquake, by G. Smits/When the earth roars: lessons from the history of earthquakes in Japan, by G. Smits [Book Review]. Japan Forum 29(1), pp. 134-136. (10.1080/09555803.2016.1226376)
2014
- Hood, C. P. 2014. Japan: the basics. London: Routledge.
- Hood, C. P. 2014. Osutaka: a chronicle of loss in the world's largest single plane crash. Lulu.
- Hood, C. P. 2014. Reporting the world's biggest single plane crash. In: Rausch, A. ed. Japanese Journalism and the Japanese Newspaper. Teneo Press, pp. 131-152.
2013
- Hood, C. P. 2013. Visualization of death in Japan: the case of the flight JL123 crash. In: Aaron, M. ed. Envisaging death: visual culture and dying. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 120-139.
- Hood, C. P. 2013. Disaster and death in Japan: responses to the Flight JL123 crash. In: Suzuki, H. ed. Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan. Japan Anthropology Workshop Series Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 202-225.
2011
- Hood, C. P. 2011. Dealing with disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 crash. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
- Hood, C. P. 2011. Contrasting experiences of growth and decline in regional Japan. In: Matanle, P. and Rausch, A. eds. Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century. Cambria Press, pp. 131-154.
2010
- Hood, C. P. 2010. The Shinkansen's local impact. Social Science Japan Journal 13(2), pp. 211-225. (10.1093/ssjj/jyq004)
2009
- Hood, C. P. 2009. Narratives on the world's worst plane crash: Flight JL123 in print and on screen. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff Crimes Narrative Network, Cardiff University. Available at: http://cardiff.academia.edu/ChristopherHood/Papers/95510/Narratives_on_the_Worlds_Worst_Plane_Crash_Flight_JL123_in_Print_and_on_Screen
2008
- Hood, C. P. 2008. Introduction: elections: reflecting Japan or the politicians?. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The Politics of modern Japan., Vol. 4. Critical issues in modern politics Abingdon: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, pp. 1-4.
- Hood, C. P. 2008. Introduction: Pragmatic and cooperative, but sometimes alone. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The politics of modern Japan., Vol. 3. Critical issues in modern politics Abingdon: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, pp. 1-3.
- Hood, C. P. 2008. Introduction: responding to change and making change. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The Politics of modern Japan., Vol. 2. Critical Issues in modern politics Abingdon: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, pp. 1-4.
- Hood, C. P. 2008. Introduction: the importance of Japanese politics. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The Politics of modern Japan., Vol. 1. Critical issues in modern politics Abingdon: Taylor & Franci/Routledge, pp. 178-197.
- Hood, C. P. 2008. From polling station to political station? Politics and the Shinkansen. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The Politics of Modern Japan., Vol. 1. Critical issues in modern politics Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 178-197.
- Hood, C. P. ed. 2008. The politics of modern Japan. 4 vols.. Critical Issues in Modern Politics. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Hood, C. P. 2008. War on the Tokaido. Bullet-In 65(11)
- Hood, C. P. 2008. Researching Japan's worst plane crash. JAWS (Japan Anthropology Workshop) Newsletter 42, pp. 38-40.
2007
- Hood, C. P. 2007. Photographing the Shinkansen: Fuji. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 62, pp. 14-17.
- Hood, C. P. 2007. The Shinkansen: Japan's iconic railways. Japan Visitor
- Hood, C. P. 2007. Bullets and trains: Exporting Japan’s Shinkansen to China and Taiwan. Japan Focus, pp. n/a.
- Hood, C. P. 2007. Flight JL123: SOS. Documentation. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.hood-online.co.uk/publications/JL123-SOS.pdf
2006
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Photographing the Shinkansen: Okayama. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 61
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Photographing the Shinkansen: Tohoku Shinknsen in Kant?. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 60, pp. 17-20.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Shinkansen: pioneering high speed railway. The Slough & Windsor Triangle 70, pp. 12-13.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Photographing the Shinkansen (part two): Fukuyama and Tokuyama. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 58, pp. 27-28.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. High-speed trains in Japan. Railway Strategies 37, pp. 111-113.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Japan: All change. The World Today 62(8/9), pp. 28-29.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Miyazaki, Manabu (2005) Toppamono: Outlaw, Radical, Suspect – My Life in Japan's Underworld, Tokyo: Kotan Publishing, hardback, 460 pages ISBN: 0970171625. [Book Review]. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 6(1), article number: Book Review 4.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Shinkansen: from bullet train to low-flying plane. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Igirisu-ga hitsuy-to suru mono – sore-wa shinkansen, kokyo kotsu no nichiei hikaku [What Britain needs is the Shinkansen]. Comparative Law and Culture: The bulletin of the Surugadai University Institute of Comparative Law(14), pp. 55-69.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Japan; Iran. In: Lowe, R. and Spencer, C. eds. Iran, its Neighbours and the Regional Crises: A Middle East Programme Report. London: Chatham House, pp. 49.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. From polling station to political station? Politics and the shinkansen. Japan Forum 18(1), pp. 45-53. (10.1080/09555800500498228)
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Photographing the Shinkansen: Kakegawa. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In(57), pp. 14-16.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Photographing the Shinkansen: Lake Hamana. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 59, pp. 20-24.
2005
- Hood, C. P. 2005. EXPO 2005. Bullet-In July(55), pp. 29-30.
- Hood, C. P. 2005. Sleeper train to Sapporo. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 54(14)
- Hood, C. P. 2005. Mad in Japan: only joking?. In: Kondo, K. ed. Yuganda Kagami-ni Utsutta Nihon – Japan Reflected in a Cracked Mirror. Tokyo, Japan: GNAC, pp. 250-258.
- Hood, C. P. 2005. Hon no Jodan desuyo?. In: Kondo, K. ed. Yuganda Kagami-ni Utsutta Nihon – Japan Reflected in a Cracked Mirror. GNAC, pp. 113-120.
- Hood, C. P. 2005. Tokaido Shinkansen 40th anniversary. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 53, pp. 11-12.
- Hood, C. P. 2005. It's snow joke for the Shinkansen. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In(53), pp. 33-34.
2004
- Hood, C. P. 2004. 'Governance for a New Century: Japanese Challenges, American Experience', Thomas E. Mann and Sasaki Takeshi (eds). The Brookings Institution, 2002, 133 pp., £16.75. ISBN: 4889070613 [Book Review]. Public Administration 82(2), pp. 538-539. (10.1111/j.0033-3298.2004.00405.x)
- Hood, C. P. 2004. Japanese capitalism and modernity in a global era: Re-fabricating lifetime employment relations, P. C. D. Matanle, Routledge Curzon, London (2003) ISBN 0-415-30574-8 [Book Review]. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 16(1), pp. 118-119.
2003
- Bownas, G., Hood, C. P. and Powers, D. 2003. Doing business with the Japanese: a one-stop guide to Japanese business practice. London: Direct Image.
- Hood, C. P. 2003. The third great reform of the Japanese education system: success in the 1980s onwards. In: Goodman, R. and Phillips, D. eds. Can the Japanese Change Their Education System?. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education Vol. 12(1). Wallingford: Symposium Books, pp. 73-85.
- Hood, C. P. 2003. Getting about in Japan. In: Hood, C. P., Powers, D. and Bownas, G. eds. Doing Business with the Japanese: A One-stop Guide to Japanese Business Practice. London: Direct Image, pp. 130-141.
- Hood, C. P. 2003. Review of 'Japan and Greater China: political economy and military power in the Asian Century', G. Austin and S. Harris, Hurst & Company, London (2001) ISBN 1-85065-473-5 [Book Review]. The Japan Society Proceedings 140, pp. 91-92.
2002
- Hood, C. P. 2002. Review of 'Asian Media Productions', B Moeran (ed), Curzon Press, London (2001) ISBN 0-7007-1334-4 [Book Review]. Bulletin of the European Association for Japanese Studies 60, pp. 26-27.
- Hood, C. P. 2002. Review of 'Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization', R Starrs (ed), Japan Library, London (2001) ISBN 1-903350-03-4 [Book Review]. Bulletin of the European Association for Japanese Studies 61, pp. 19-20.
- Hood, C. P. 2002. The real bullet train. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In, pp. 37-38.
- Hood, C. P. 2002. Review of 'Japan at Play: The Ludic and the Logic of Power', J Hendry and M Raveri (ed), Routledge, London (2002) ISBN 0-415-21501-3 [Book Review]. Bulletin of the European Association for Japanese Studies 61, pp. 18-19.
- Hood, C. 2002. Getting on track: High speed railways in Japan and the UK. Anglo-Japanese Academy Proceedings, pp. 517-530.
Articles
- Hood, C. P. 2025. Dream Super-Express: A cultural history of the world's first bullet train, by Jessamyn Abel [Book Review]. Social Science Japan Journal 28(2) (10.1093/ssjj/jyaf013)
- Hood, C. and Hayes, C. J. 2025. Bonded by stereotypes, clichés, and tropes: introduction to themed issue “symbols of Japan”. New Readings 20, pp. i-xvi. (10.18573/newreadings.153)
- Hood, C. P. 2022. Book Review. Japan Forum (10.1080/09555803.2022.2140181)
- Hood, C. P. 2022. Les récits de catastrophe japonais du début du XXIe siècle : continuité et changement. Ebisu 59, pp. 95-123. (10.4000/ebisu.6809)
- Hood, C. 2022. Wings for the rising sun: a transnational history of Japanese aviation by Jürgen P. Melzer (2020, Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center) [Book Review]. The Journal of Japanese Studies 48(1), pp. 171-174. (10.1353/jjs.2022.0011)
- Hood, C. 2021. William W. Kelly, The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan, University of California Press, Oakland, 2019, 315 pp [Book Review]. Japan Forum 33(3), pp. 445-447. (10.1080/09555803.2020.1776754)
- Hood, C. 2020. Developing a model to explain modifications to public transportation accident memorials. Mortality 25(4), pp. 449-469. (10.1080/13576275.2019.1702009)
- Hood, C. 2020. Disaster narratives by design: Is Japan different?. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 38(2), pp. 176-200.
- Hood, C. 2020. Tragic remembrance, global sorrow: book review of Aya Fujiwara and David R. Marples (eds.), Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts [Book Review]. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 20(2)
- Hood, C. 2020. An anthropology of the machine: Tokyo’s commuter train network, by Michael Fisch, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, 320 pp., ISBN 9780226558554 [Review]. Social Science Japan Journal 23(2), pp. 346-348. (10.1093/ssjj/jyaa004)
- Hood, C. 2018. Conflicting and complementary demands after a disaster: The different faces of remembering the JL123 crash. Kamizono 20, pp. 151-159.
- Hood, C. 2018. Rewriting history in manga: Stories for the nation –Nissim Otmazgin & Rebecca Suter (Eds) [Book Review]. Mutual Images Journal 2018(4), pp. 108-110. (10.32926/2018.4.r.hoo.rewri)
- Hood, C. 2018. Review of ‘Seventeen’ by Hideo Yokoyama. The Japan Society Review 74
- Hood, C. P. 2017. Seismic Japan: the long history and continuing legacy of the Ansei Edo earthquake, by G. Smits/When the earth roars: lessons from the history of earthquakes in Japan, by G. Smits [Book Review]. Japan Forum 29(1), pp. 134-136. (10.1080/09555803.2016.1226376)
- Hood, C. P. 2010. The Shinkansen's local impact. Social Science Japan Journal 13(2), pp. 211-225. (10.1093/ssjj/jyq004)
- Hood, C. P. 2008. War on the Tokaido. Bullet-In 65(11)
- Hood, C. P. 2008. Researching Japan's worst plane crash. JAWS (Japan Anthropology Workshop) Newsletter 42, pp. 38-40.
- Hood, C. P. 2007. Photographing the Shinkansen: Fuji. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 62, pp. 14-17.
- Hood, C. P. 2007. The Shinkansen: Japan's iconic railways. Japan Visitor
- Hood, C. P. 2007. Bullets and trains: Exporting Japan’s Shinkansen to China and Taiwan. Japan Focus, pp. n/a.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Photographing the Shinkansen: Okayama. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 61
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Photographing the Shinkansen: Tohoku Shinknsen in Kant?. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 60, pp. 17-20.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Shinkansen: pioneering high speed railway. The Slough & Windsor Triangle 70, pp. 12-13.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Photographing the Shinkansen (part two): Fukuyama and Tokuyama. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 58, pp. 27-28.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. High-speed trains in Japan. Railway Strategies 37, pp. 111-113.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Japan: All change. The World Today 62(8/9), pp. 28-29.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Miyazaki, Manabu (2005) Toppamono: Outlaw, Radical, Suspect – My Life in Japan's Underworld, Tokyo: Kotan Publishing, hardback, 460 pages ISBN: 0970171625. [Book Review]. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 6(1), article number: Book Review 4.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Igirisu-ga hitsuy-to suru mono – sore-wa shinkansen, kokyo kotsu no nichiei hikaku [What Britain needs is the Shinkansen]. Comparative Law and Culture: The bulletin of the Surugadai University Institute of Comparative Law(14), pp. 55-69.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. From polling station to political station? Politics and the shinkansen. Japan Forum 18(1), pp. 45-53. (10.1080/09555800500498228)
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Photographing the Shinkansen: Kakegawa. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In(57), pp. 14-16.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Photographing the Shinkansen: Lake Hamana. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 59, pp. 20-24.
- Hood, C. P. 2005. EXPO 2005. Bullet-In July(55), pp. 29-30.
- Hood, C. P. 2005. Sleeper train to Sapporo. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 54(14)
- Hood, C. P. 2005. Tokaido Shinkansen 40th anniversary. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In 53, pp. 11-12.
- Hood, C. P. 2005. It's snow joke for the Shinkansen. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In(53), pp. 33-34.
- Hood, C. P. 2004. 'Governance for a New Century: Japanese Challenges, American Experience', Thomas E. Mann and Sasaki Takeshi (eds). The Brookings Institution, 2002, 133 pp., £16.75. ISBN: 4889070613 [Book Review]. Public Administration 82(2), pp. 538-539. (10.1111/j.0033-3298.2004.00405.x)
- Hood, C. P. 2004. Japanese capitalism and modernity in a global era: Re-fabricating lifetime employment relations, P. C. D. Matanle, Routledge Curzon, London (2003) ISBN 0-415-30574-8 [Book Review]. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 16(1), pp. 118-119.
- Hood, C. P. 2003. Review of 'Japan and Greater China: political economy and military power in the Asian Century', G. Austin and S. Harris, Hurst & Company, London (2001) ISBN 1-85065-473-5 [Book Review]. The Japan Society Proceedings 140, pp. 91-92.
- Hood, C. P. 2002. Review of 'Asian Media Productions', B Moeran (ed), Curzon Press, London (2001) ISBN 0-7007-1334-4 [Book Review]. Bulletin of the European Association for Japanese Studies 60, pp. 26-27.
- Hood, C. P. 2002. Review of 'Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization', R Starrs (ed), Japan Library, London (2001) ISBN 1-903350-03-4 [Book Review]. Bulletin of the European Association for Japanese Studies 61, pp. 19-20.
- Hood, C. P. 2002. The real bullet train. Japanese Railway Society Bullet-In, pp. 37-38.
- Hood, C. P. 2002. Review of 'Japan at Play: The Ludic and the Logic of Power', J Hendry and M Raveri (ed), Routledge, London (2002) ISBN 0-415-21501-3 [Book Review]. Bulletin of the European Association for Japanese Studies 61, pp. 18-19.
- Hood, C. 2002. Getting on track: High speed railways in Japan and the UK. Anglo-Japanese Academy Proceedings, pp. 517-530.
Book sections
- Hood, C. 2024. Depicting the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: History and continued significance. In: Köhn, S. and Hülsmann, K. eds. Articulations of the Nuclear: Postwar Japan under the Spell of the Atomic Age., Vol. 13. Kulturwissenschaftliche Japanstudien Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 105-125.
- Hood, C. P. 2022. Truth and limitations: Japanese media and disasters. In: Mithani, F. and Kirsch, G. eds. Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition. Japan Documents Handbook Series Tokyo: MHM, pp. 17-31.
- Hood, C. 2021. Kontentsu Tsuurizumu In Purein Saito – Seichi Toshite Koukuuki. In: Kontentsu Tsuurizumu – Media-o Koudan Suru Kontentsu to Ekkyou suru Fandamu. Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press, pp. 263-283.
- Hood, C. 2020. Nakasone and JL123/Nakasone to Nikkō 123-bin. In: Toko, A. and Cho, . eds. Nikkō 123-bin Tsuiraku Atsuryoku Kakuheiki Setsu-o Kutsugaesu. Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, pp. 218-229.
- Hood, C. 2017. Japan. In: Lowry, L. L. ed. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism. SAGE, pp. 698-701., (10.4135/9781483368924.n257)
- Hood, C. 2017. Rail travel, Asia & Pacific. In: The Sage Encyclopaedia of Travel and Tourism. Sage, pp. 999-1003., (10.4135/9781483368924.n370)
- Hood, C. 2017. Maglev trains. In: The Sage Encyclopaedia of Travel and Tourism. Sage, pp. 784-784., (http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483368924.n288)
- Hood, C. P. 2014. Reporting the world's biggest single plane crash. In: Rausch, A. ed. Japanese Journalism and the Japanese Newspaper. Teneo Press, pp. 131-152.
- Hood, C. P. 2013. Visualization of death in Japan: the case of the flight JL123 crash. In: Aaron, M. ed. Envisaging death: visual culture and dying. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 120-139.
- Hood, C. P. 2013. Disaster and death in Japan: responses to the Flight JL123 crash. In: Suzuki, H. ed. Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan. Japan Anthropology Workshop Series Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 202-225.
- Hood, C. P. 2011. Contrasting experiences of growth and decline in regional Japan. In: Matanle, P. and Rausch, A. eds. Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century. Cambria Press, pp. 131-154.
- Hood, C. P. 2008. Introduction: elections: reflecting Japan or the politicians?. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The Politics of modern Japan., Vol. 4. Critical issues in modern politics Abingdon: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, pp. 1-4.
- Hood, C. P. 2008. Introduction: Pragmatic and cooperative, but sometimes alone. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The politics of modern Japan., Vol. 3. Critical issues in modern politics Abingdon: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, pp. 1-3.
- Hood, C. P. 2008. Introduction: responding to change and making change. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The Politics of modern Japan., Vol. 2. Critical Issues in modern politics Abingdon: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, pp. 1-4.
- Hood, C. P. 2008. Introduction: the importance of Japanese politics. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The Politics of modern Japan., Vol. 1. Critical issues in modern politics Abingdon: Taylor & Franci/Routledge, pp. 178-197.
- Hood, C. P. 2008. From polling station to political station? Politics and the Shinkansen. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The Politics of Modern Japan., Vol. 1. Critical issues in modern politics Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 178-197.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Japan; Iran. In: Lowe, R. and Spencer, C. eds. Iran, its Neighbours and the Regional Crises: A Middle East Programme Report. London: Chatham House, pp. 49.
- Hood, C. P. 2005. Mad in Japan: only joking?. In: Kondo, K. ed. Yuganda Kagami-ni Utsutta Nihon – Japan Reflected in a Cracked Mirror. Tokyo, Japan: GNAC, pp. 250-258.
- Hood, C. P. 2005. Hon no Jodan desuyo?. In: Kondo, K. ed. Yuganda Kagami-ni Utsutta Nihon – Japan Reflected in a Cracked Mirror. GNAC, pp. 113-120.
- Hood, C. P. 2003. The third great reform of the Japanese education system: success in the 1980s onwards. In: Goodman, R. and Phillips, D. eds. Can the Japanese Change Their Education System?. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education Vol. 12(1). Wallingford: Symposium Books, pp. 73-85.
- Hood, C. P. 2003. Getting about in Japan. In: Hood, C. P., Powers, D. and Bownas, G. eds. Doing Business with the Japanese: A One-stop Guide to Japanese Business Practice. London: Direct Image, pp. 130-141.
Books
- Hood, C. 2024. Japan: The basics. 2nd Edition. London:: Routledge. (10.4324/9781003216704)
- Hood, C. 2018. Osutaka: A chronicle of loss in the world’s largest single plane crash. Caradoc Books.
- Hood, C. P. 2014. Japan: the basics. London: Routledge.
- Hood, C. P. 2014. Osutaka: a chronicle of loss in the world's largest single plane crash. Lulu.
- Hood, C. P. 2011. Dealing with disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 crash. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
- Hood, C. P. ed. 2008. The politics of modern Japan. 4 vols.. Critical Issues in Modern Politics. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Hood, C. P. 2006. Shinkansen: from bullet train to low-flying plane. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
- Bownas, G., Hood, C. P. and Powers, D. 2003. Doing business with the Japanese: a one-stop guide to Japanese business practice. London: Direct Image.
Conferences
- Hood, C. 2024. Japan says ‘Western Pop’?:No thanks, don’t do it. Presented at: 24th BATJ Conference, Cardiff, UK, 9-10 September 2022, Vol. 24. The British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language pp. 41-51.
Monographs
- Hood, C. P. 2009. Narratives on the world's worst plane crash: Flight JL123 in print and on screen. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff Crimes Narrative Network, Cardiff University. Available at: http://cardiff.academia.edu/ChristopherHood/Papers/95510/Narratives_on_the_Worlds_Worst_Plane_Crash_Flight_JL123_in_Print_and_on_Screen
- Hood, C. P. 2007. Flight JL123: SOS. Documentation. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.hood-online.co.uk/publications/JL123-SOS.pdf
- Hood, C. P. 2013. Visualization of death in Japan: the case of the flight JL123 crash. In: Aaron, M. ed. Envisaging death: visual culture and dying. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 120-139.
- Hood, C. P. 2013. Disaster and death in Japan: responses to the Flight JL123 crash. In: Suzuki, H. ed. Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan. Japan Anthropology Workshop Series Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 202-225.
- Hood, C. P. 2011. Dealing with disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 crash. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
- Hood, C. P. 2011. Contrasting experiences of growth and decline in regional Japan. In: Matanle, P. and Rausch, A. eds. Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century. Cambria Press, pp. 131-154.
- Hood, C. P. 2010. The Shinkansen's local impact. Social Science Japan Journal 13(2), pp. 211-225. (10.1093/ssjj/jyq004)
- Hood, C. P. 2008. From polling station to political station? Politics and the Shinkansen. In: Hood, C. P. ed. The Politics of Modern Japan., Vol. 1. Critical issues in modern politics Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 178-197.
- Hood, C. P. ed. 2008. The politics of modern Japan. 4 vols.. Critical Issues in Modern Politics. Abingdon: Routledge.
