New Books in Japanese Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Japan about their New Books
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Rana Mitter, "Forgotten Ally: China's World War...
An interview with Rana Mitter
56 min
352
Eika Tai, "Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voi...
An interview with Eika Tai
33 min
353
Torsten Weber, "Embracing 'Asia' in China and J...
Interview with Torsten Weber
44 min
354
Michael R. Auslin, "Asia's New Geopolitics: Ess...
Interview with Michael R. Auslin
74 min
355
Linda C. Ehrlich, "The Films of Kore-eda Hiroka...
An interview with Linda C. Ehlrich
63 min
356
Wesley C. Robertson, "Scripting Japan: Orthogra...
An interview with Wesley C. Robertson
53 min
357
Bill Sewell, "Constructing Empire: The Japanese...
An interview with Bill Sewell
45 min
358
Matjaz Ursic and Heide Imai, "Creativity in Tok...
An interview with Matjaz Ursic and Heide Imai
55 min
359
Woojeong Joo, "Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Historie...
An interview with Woojeong Joo
63 min
360
Michael Fisch, "An Anthropology of the Machine:...
An interview with Michael Fisch
80 min
361
Gracia Liu-Farrer, "Immigrant Japan: Mobility a...
An interview with Gracia Liu-Farrer
51 min
362
William C. Hedberg, "The Japanese Discovery of ...
An interview with William C. Hedberg
44 min
363
William W. Kelly, "The Sportsworld of the Hansh...
An interview with William K. Kelly
82 min
364
Kelly A. Hammond, "China's Muslims and Japan's ...
An interview with Kelly A. Hammond
56 min
365
David Fedman, "Seeds of Control: Seeds of Contr...
An interview with David Fedman
108 min
366
Noel John Pinnington, "A New History of Medieva...
Pinnington traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts...
45 min
367
Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort W...
In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every Wednesday is an iconic sight, testifying to the strength and resilience of the “comfort women” movement...
42 min
368
Charlotte Eubanks, "The Art of Persistence: Aka...
Eubanks examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912–2000)....
83 min
369
Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A ...
Stanley Tsuneno’s life, from growing up in a rural community through her escape to the city of Edo, where she lives in the final decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate....
38 min
370
Tobias Harris, "The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and ...
Readers will witness Abe’s gradual rise through the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party and his complex relationships with leading figures in both Japanese and US political circles...
69 min
371
Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Network...
Kim offers a fascinating study of the transcultural underpinnings of Medieval East Asian Buddhist traditions with an emphasis on Shinra Myōjin, a deity integral to the institutional development of the Medieval Japanese Tendai faction, the Jimon...
81 min
372
Suma Ikeuchi, "Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migrat...
In 1990, the Japanese government introduced the Nikkei-jin (Japanese descendant) visa and since then it has attracted more than 190,000 Nikkei Brazilian nationals to Japan...
76 min
373
Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World ...
When you mention Japanese War crimes in World War Two, you’ll often get different responses from different generations...
62 min
374
Fabio Rambelli, “Spirits and Animism in Contemp...
In Japan, a country popularly perceived as highly secularized and technologically advanced, ontological assumptions about spirits (tama or tamashii) seem to be quite deeply ingrained in the cultural fabric. From ancestor cults to anime, spirits,
51 min
375
Ann-elise Lewallen, “The Fabric of Indigeneity:...
The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan (University of New Mexico Press) is a recent addition to the growing scholarship on Ainu identity and settler colonialism in Japan.
72 min