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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 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.

Hosted by 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

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 April 26, 2021

Defining Shugendo

Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion

Andrea Castiglioni, Fabio Rambelli, and Carina Roth

Hosted by 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

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 …
Japanese Studies April 21, 2022

The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan

Negotiating the Transition to Modernity

Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller

Hosted by 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 April 10, 2023

Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture

Matthew Mewhinney

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Matthew Mewhinney's Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers – Yosa Buson (1716–83), Ema Saikō (1787–1861), Masaoka …
Japanese Studies March 18, 2021

The Global Education Effect and Japan

Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices

Neriko Musha Doerr

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 December 25, 2022

The Pleasures of Metamorphosis

Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"

Lucy Fraser

Hosted by Amanda Kennell
“The Little Mermaid” has become popular around the world since the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen published it almost two centuries ago. Lucy Fraser’s The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and …
Japanese Studies January 29, 2021

Seeking Sakyamuni

South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism

Richard M. Jaffe

Hosted by 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

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 March 23, 2021

Licentious Fictions

Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel

Daniel Poch

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

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 …
Japanese Studies December 23, 2022

Anime's Identity

Performativity and Form Beyond Japan

Stevie Suan

Hosted by Jingyi Li
A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its global reach raises a perplexing question--what happens when anime is …
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 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 June 8, 2021

Men in Metal

A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan

Sven Saaler

Hosted by 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 …