Selected Articles and Chapters
“Parkside Demolitionist,” Troublemakers, no. 2, summer 2025, pp. 124–35.
“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