She is author of Dominant Narratives of Colonial Hokkaido and Imperial Japan (Palgrave, 2012) and Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context and Critique (Stanford UP, 2012, with Helen J.S. Lee). Mason’s work on Silver Spoon grows out of an interest in manga, which can be seen in her article “Writing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the 21st Century: A New Generation of Historical Manga” in The Asia-Pacific Journal (2009) and the chapter “Bodies of Anger: Atomic Survivors in Nakazawa Keiji’s Black Series Manga” in Rewriting History in Manga: Stories for the Nation (Palgrave, 2016, Eds. Nissim Otamazgin and Rebecca Suter).