From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West - Paperbackby Mayako Murai (Author) Brings contemporary Japanese literary and artistic fairy tale adaptations into conversation with Euro American feminist fairy tale re creation and scholarship. As in the United States, fairy tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female oriented perspective than traditional