Tag Archives: postwar

Book Announcement: Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Paula

Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics Yuko Shibata National, disciplinary, and linguistic boundaries all play a role in academic study and nowhere is this more apparent than in traditional humanities scholarship surrounding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Paula

Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline David Leheny Empire of Hope asks how emotions become meaningful in political life. In a diverse array of cases from recent Japanese history, David Leheny shows how sentimental portrayals of the nation … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Paula

Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War Laura Hein SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Paula

Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands Pedro Iacobelli SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan Placing a distinct focus on the role of the sending state, this book examines the history of postwar Japan’s migration … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Paula

The Stakes of Exposure Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art Author: Namiko Kunimoto How would artistic practice contribute to political change in post–World War II Japan? How could artists negotiate the imbalanced global dynamics of the art world and also … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Debating Democracy in Japan

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Paula

The Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia will be held at the University of Wollongong from 26 to 30 June 2017. The Call for Papers is now open. The conference takes place seventy years since the revised … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Teaching Postwar Japanese Fiction

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Paula

Proposals are invited for a volume tentatively entitled Teaching Postwar Japanese Fiction. This volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series aims to bring together essays describing innovative and successful approaches to teaching Japanese fiction to an undergraduate audience. The terms postwar and fiction are interpreted … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The China Problem in Postwar Japan: National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Paula

Recently published with Bloomsbury Press as part of the series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, edited by Christopher Gerteis. Robert Hoppens, The China Problem in Postwar Japan: National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations, (Bloomsbury Press, March 2015), 298 pages, ISBN: … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia: identity politics, schooling and popular culture

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Paula

Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia: identity politics, schooling and popular culture Paul Morris, Naoko Shimazu and Edward Vickers, editors (Routledge: 2013) 264 pp ISBN: 978-0-415-71399-3 In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued … Continue reading →

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Resource: Tezuka Collection on Google Cultural Institute

Posted on April 23, 2014 by LM

Tezuka Productions Co. has created a collection on Google Cultural Institute, an online resource of images and information from museums and archives all over the world, about Tezuka Osamu’s contributions to anime.   The collection has three exhibits. The first is Tezuka Osamu: The … Continue reading →

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