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Nordic Asia Podcast
April 29, 2022
The Future of Japanese Studies
A Conversation with Aike P. Rots
Aike P. Rots
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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 good or a bad thing? In an era of Google Translate and nifty smartphone apps, do people still need to spend years and years learning Japanese? What kind of problems do prevailing notions of methodological nationalism create for the study …
East Asian Studies
May 1, 2018
Rethinking Japanese Studies
Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region
Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto, eds.
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Roman Paşca
Rethinking Japanese Studies. Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region (Routledge, 2018) is co-edited by Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto. The book tries to look at the discipline of Japanese Studies from …
Japanese Studies
July 6, 2022
Animal Care in Japanese Tradition
A Short History
W. Puck Brecher
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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
April 26, 2021
Defining Shugendo
Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion
Andrea Castiglioni, Fabio Rambelli, and Carina Roth
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Daigengna Duoer
Andrea Castiglioni, Fabio Rambelli and Carina Roth's edited volume Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion (Bloomsbury, 2020) presents the newest studies on Shugendō-related practices and traditions from both Japanese and …
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
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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 …
Japanese Studies
April 21, 2022
The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan
Negotiating the Transition to Modernity
Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller
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Jingyi Li
The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity (Routledge, 2021) examines the visual culture of Japan's transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the …
Japanese Studies
March 18, 2021
The Global Education Effect and Japan
Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices
Neriko Musha Doerr
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Jingyi Li
The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices (Routledge, 2020) volume investigates the "global education effect"--the impact of global education initiatives on institutional and individual practices …
Japanese Studies
October 5, 2021
From Country to Nation
Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Gideon Fujiwara
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Jingyi Li
From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Cornell UP, 2021) tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century through the history of …
Japanese Studies
January 11, 2021
Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro
Histories of the Everyday
Woojeong Joo
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Takeshi Morisato
One of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked during a period of immense turbulence for Japan and …
Japanese Studies
January 29, 2021
Seeking Sakyamuni
South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
Richard M. Jaffe
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Samee Siddiqui
Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the …
Japanese Studies
June 27, 2022
Japanese Role-Playing Games
Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
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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
March 23, 2021
Licentious Fictions
Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel
Daniel Poch
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Jingyi Li
Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. For many writers and critics …
Japanese Studies
October 25, 2021
Yamamba
In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch
Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich
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Matthew Hayes
Alluring, nurturing, dangerous, and vulnerable, the yamamba, or Japanese mountain witch, has intrigued audiences for centuries. What is it about the fusion of mountains with the solitary old woman that …
Japanese Studies
May 31, 2021
Japan's Private Spheres
Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930
William Puck Brecher
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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 …
Japanese Studies
March 18, 2021
Japan's Russia
Challenging the East-West Paradigm
Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi
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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
June 13, 2022
Designing Modern Japan
Sarah Teasley
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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
June 8, 2021
Men in Metal
A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan
Sven Saaler
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Jingyi Li
In his pioneering study, Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan (Brill, 2020), Sven Saaler examines Japanese public statuary as a central site of historical memory from …
Japanese Studies
April 22, 2021
Tropics of Savagery
The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame
Robert Thomas Tierney
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Samee Siddiqui
Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame (U California Press, 2010) is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of “savagery” in Japanese …
Japanese Studies
April 1, 2021
Voices of Early Modern Japan
Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns
Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
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Jingyi Li
In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns (Routledge, 2020), Constantine Nomikos Vaporis …
Japanese Studies
March 17, 2021
Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan
Hans Martin Krämer
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Samee Siddiqui
Religion is at the heart of such ongoing political debates in Japan as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the very categories that frame these debates …
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