Introduction: a strange mirror: the Doppelänger in Japan -- Stalkers and crime scenes: the detective fiction of Edogawa Rampo -- Repressing the colonial unconscious: Tanizaki's racialized doppelgänger -- Projections of shadow: visual modernization and psychoanalysis -- Rampo's repetitions: confession, adaptation, and the historical unconscious -- Compulsions to repeat: the Doppelgänger at the end of history
