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Japanese Studies May 31, 2021

Japan's Private Spheres

Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930

William Puck Brecher

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 (Brill, 2021) traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with public authority, a dynamic that evokes stereotypes about an alleged dearth of individual agency in Japanese society. It does so through a montage of case studies. For the early …
Japanese Studies January 29, 2021

Scripting Japan

Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese

Wesley C. Robertson

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions …
Japanese Studies June 13, 2022

Designing Modern Japan

Sarah Teasley

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Sarah Teasley's Designing Modern Japan (Reaktion, 2022) unpicks the history of Japanese design from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, focusing on continuities and disruptions within communities and practices …
Japanese Studies March 18, 2021

Japan's Russia

Challenging the East-West Paradigm

Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi

Hosted by Jingyi Li
The Russian cultural presence in Japan after the Meiji Revolution was immense. Indeed, Japanese cultural negotiations with Russian intellectuals and Russian literature, art, theology and political thought, formed an important …
Japanese Studies January 7, 2021

Immigrant Japan

Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society

Gracia Liu-Farrer

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020), millions of immigrants make their …
Japanese Studies August 2, 2022

Sino-Japanese Reflections

Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity

Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh's edited volume Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity (de Gruyter, 2022) offers ten richly detailed case studies that …
On Religion March 25, 2022

On Japanese Buddhist Art

A Discussion with Michael Vanhartingsveldt

Michael Vanhartingsveldt

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Michael Vanhartingsveldt is a contributing columnist at Buddhistdoor Global. He works full-time at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. He did his masters in East Asian Art Business at …
East Asian Studies December 3, 2013

Japanoise

Music at the Edge of Circulation

David Novak

Hosted by Carla Nappi
Thinking about "Noise" in the history and practice of music means thinking in opposites. Noise is both a musical genre, and is not. It both produces a global circulation and …
Nordic Asia Podcast April 29, 2022

The Future of Japanese Studies

A Conversation with Aike P. Rots

Aike P. Rots

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
Does the rise of China mean that studying Japan is inexorably declining? Many students become interested in Japan because of popular culture, such manga and video games: is this a …
Japanese Studies April 26, 2022

Post-Fascist Japan

Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War

Laura Hein

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
After Japan’s devastating defeat in World War II, by late 1945, local Japanese turned their energies towards creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to …
East Asian Studies July 7, 2022

Japan Rearmed

The Politics of Military Power

Sheila A. Smith

Hosted by John Traphagan
Today I talked to Sheila A. Smith about her book Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power (Harvard UP, 2019). Modern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and …
East Asian Studies May 23, 2014

Precarious Japan

Anne Allison

Hosted by Carla Nappi
"[All] I want to eat is a rice ball." This was the last entry in the diary of a 52-year-old man who starved to death in an apartment he had …
Japanese Studies December 20, 2021

Revisiting Japan's Restoration

New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation

Timothy D. Amos and Akiko Ishii

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation (Routledge, 2021) presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study …
Japanese Studies April 1, 2021

The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900)

A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan

Christopher Joby

Hosted by Jingyi Li
In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (Brill, 2020), Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of …
Japanese Studies June 27, 2022

Japanese Role-Playing Games

Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG

Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon's edited volume Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG (Lexington Books, 2022) examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing significant …
Japanese Studies December 8, 2021

Japan on American TV

Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost

Alisa Freedman

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Alisa Freedman's book Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost (Association for Asian Studies, 2021) explores political, economic, and cultural issues underlying depictions …
Japanese Studies July 6, 2022

Animal Care in Japanese Tradition

A Short History

W. Puck Brecher

Hosted by Jingyi Li
In Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History (Association for Asian Studies, 2022), Brecher offers a brief overview of animals in Japanese culture and society from ancient times to …
East Asian Studies August 16, 2014

Seismic Japan

The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earthquake

Gregory Smits

Hosted by Carla Nappi
In two recent books, Gregory Smits offers a history of earthquakes and seismology in Japan that creates a wonderful dialogue between history and the sciences. Seismic Japan: The Long History …
Japanese Studies September 29, 2021

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions

Erica Baffelli, Fabio Rambelli, and Andrea Castiglioni

Hosted by Raditya Nuradi
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions is edited by Erica Baffelli, Fabio Rambelli, and Andrea Castiglioni published by Bloomsbury, 2021. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions offers a comprehensive overview …
Japanese Studies November 29, 2021

Japanese Philosophy in the Making 2

Borderline Interrogations

John Maraldo

Hosted by Jingyi Li
The second of three volumes of essays that engage Japanese philosophers as intercultural thinkers, this collection critically probes seminal works for their historical significance and contemporary relevance. Japanese Philosophy in …