edited by Stephen Alomes, Peter Eckersall, Ross Mouer and Alison Tokita. Available through the Custom Book Centre at Melbourne University.

http://www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au/cbc/?9781921775819

Cover note:

The essays in Outside Australia: Japanese and Australian Encounters & Identities in Flux originated when the authors gathered in Broome to discuss this theme in December 2006, the Australia-Japan Year of Friendship. Broome was chosen because of its special place in the history of Australia-Japan relations, and for its liminal character on the edge of both Australia and Asia.

This book explores from diverse angles how the outsider experience conditions cultural encounters between Australia and Japan. A sense of being on the fringe of Asia and consequent anxieties about the region impinge on identity, history, politics, society, culture and the arts in each country. The intercultural relations between Australia and Japan are deeply embedded in the self-identity of each nation, and the sense of being “outside Asia” continues to inform social, cultural and political life in contemporary Japan and Australia. This continuing cultural narrative is important. It remains extraordinarily significant even as both nations are engaged in complex multilateral relations with others, while participating as ‘allies’ in the broader cultural, political, economic and strategic flows that constitute globalisation. Those processes, links and flows influence many larger and smaller nations in the multi-polar era of today.

Table of contents:

John Romeril:
My Favourite Broome Story

Mark Lincicome:
Centering the Periphery: National Identity and the Problem of Asian Regionalism in Australia and Japan

Yoko Harada:
Australia, Japan, Inferiority Complex and Orientalism: Examining common symptoms of “natural partners”

Narrelle Morris:
From ‘Japan-bashing’ to ‘Japan-surpassing’? – Australia, Japan and the Rise of China in the Early Twenty-First Century

Beatrice Trefalt:
Australia, the War, Japan, and the absence of Asia

Pauline Kent:
Peripheral and Asymmetric Approaches to Japan: The case of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Alison Tokita:
Intimate Encounters: Marriage and the Australia-Japan Relationship

Stephen Alomes:
Margins to Mainstream: The Impact of Contemporary Populism in Australia and Japan

Robin Gerster:
CONTACT! Cultural Impacts of the Australian Post-War Occupation of Japan

Tetsuo Mizukami:
Japanese Migrants and their Major Organisations in Metropolitan Australia

Pam Oliver:
The Japanese and Broome to 1942

Ross Mouer and Jun Tsutsumi:
Australia’s sister city relations with Japan

Vera Mackie:
Japan, Australia and a Somatic Reading of Globalization

Leith Morton:
The Poetics of War: Japanese Poetry and World War II

Keiji Sawada:
Hybridity and Interculturalism in Australia-Japan Theatrical Exchanges

Peter Eckersall:
Hirata Oriza’s “Tokyo Notes” in Melbourne: conflicting expectations for theatrical Naturalism

Nanette Gottlieb:
Japanese Studies in the Internet Age