Nishimura A. (2022). "Applying Religious Studies Discourse during Wartime: On Katō Totsudō’s Discussion of Religious War." Religions 2022, 13(6), 533.

Nishimura A. (2021). "Cholera Epidemics and Religion in Modern Japan." Journal of religious studies 95(2): 53-74.

Nishimura, A. (2020). "Visual Expressions as a Cross-linkage Focusing on the Films of the Former Battlefield Pilgrimages." Japan oral history review, 16, 27-37.

Nishimura, A. (2019). "The Commemoration of the War Dead in Modern Japan." Numen, 66(2-3), 139-162. Nishimura, A. (2016). "Are Public Commemorations in Contemporary Japan Post-secular?". Journal of Religion in Japan, 5(2-3), 136-152.

Nishimura A. (2014). "Sensitivity to Distances : An Approach to the Recovery of Remains and the Battlefield Spiritual Commemoration from a Religious Studies Perspective." Annual report of the Center for Evolving Humanities : Study of cultural exchange, 27, 27-36.

Nishimura A. (2013). "The Engagement of Religious Groups in Postwar Battlefield Pilgrimages." Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 37, 42-51.

Nishimura A. (2012). "The Atomic Bomb Disaster in the Thought of Nagai Takashi : His Engagement in the Campaigns and His Occupational Exposure." Journal of religious studies, 86(2), 369-391.

Nishimura A. (2011). "Battlefield Pilgrimage and Performative Memory: Contained Souls of Soldiers in Sites, Ashes, and Buddha Statues." Memory Connection Journal, 1(1), 303-311.

Sueo Kuwahara, Takahiro Ozaki, Akira Nishimura. (2007). "TRANSPERIPHERAL NETWORKS: Bullfighting and Cattle Culture in Japan’s Outer Islands." Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, 1(2), 1-13.