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Volume 9

Community Engagement with Wildlife Conservation in Japan: A Case Study of an Endangered Bird, the Okinawa Rail (Hypotaenidia okinawae)
Madeleine Sbeghen

Girls Just Want To Have Fun: The Portrayal of Girls’ Rebellion in Mobile Phone Novels
Marie Kim

Rethinking the Rat Trilogy: Detachment, Commitment and Haruki Murakami’s Politics of Subjectivity
A. K. Byron

Creatures of Myth and Modernity: Meiji-Era Representations of Shōjō (Orangutans) as Exotic Animals
Daniel J. Wyatt

Heteroglossic Masculinity in Haruki Murakami’s ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’
Laura Emily Clark

Volume 8

Disrupt, Support and Document: The Role of Social Media in International Parental Child Abduction Cases Involving Japan
Geraldine Carney

The Cultural Semantics of the Japanese Emotion Terms ‘Haji’ and ‘Hazukashii’
Gian Marco Farese

A Centaur in Salaryman’s Clothing: Parody and Play in est em’s Centaur Manga
Anne Lee

Visualising Shattered Lives: Potentiality in Representations of Rape Victimisation in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Hei-Lei Cheng

The Angst of Youth in Post-Industrial Japan: A Narrative Self-Help Approach
Rie Kido

Performing Femininity in Japanese Politics: Chikage Ōgi Case Study
Alison Luke

Volume 7

Imaging the Rural: Modernity and Agrarianism in Hiroshi Hamaya’s Snow Land Photographs
Ross Tunney

Sexuality and Space: Tokyo and Karuizawa in Mariko Koike’s Koi
Mina Qiao

Motivations for Learning Japanese and Additional Languages: A Study of L2 Self-Image across Multiple Languages
Toshiyuki Nakamura

Re-Fashioning Kimono: How to Make ‘Traditional’ Clothes for Postmodern Japan
Jenny Hall

A Comparison of English and Japanese Proverbs Using Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Miles Neale

From The Editors

Shaping a Journal for Emerging Researchers in Japanese Studies: Insights from an Editorial Perspective

Shelley Brunt and Elicia O’Reilly

Volume 6

Notions of Japaneseness in Western Interpretations of Japanese Garden Design, 1870s-1930s
Claudia Craig

The Effects of Prior Language Knowledge in Japanese Acquisition as a Foreign Language: The Case of the Japanese Noun Modifier No
Sally Chan

The Limits of Interdependence: Cooperation and Conflict in Sino-Japanese Relations
Adam Eldridge

Music in Kamigata Rakugo Performance
Catherine Hallett

Gairaigo in Japanese Foreign Language Learning: A Tool for Native English Speakers?
Niamh Champ

Activating the Zone of Proximal Development of Japanese Language Learners: Language-Exchange Partnerships (LEPs) at an Australian University
Hiromi Nishioka

Newspaper Reporting of Whaling in Australia and Japan: A Comparative Content Analysis
Tets Kimura

Volume 5

Nakagami Kenji’s ‘Writing Back to the Centre’ through the Subaltern Narrative: Reading the Hidden Outcast Voice in ‘Misaki’ and Karekinada
Machiko Ishikawa

The impact of study abroad on Japanese language learners’ social networks
Rikki Campbell

Writing the irogonomi: Sexual politics, Heian-style
April Sprague

The Japanese Restaurant as an Exotic Genre: A Study of Culinary Providers’ Practices and Dialogues in Melbourne
Iori Hamada

Gendered Characteristics of Female Learners’ Conversational Japanese
Maki Yoshida

“Girls are dancin’”: shōjo culture and feminism in contemporary Japanese art
Emily Jane Wakeling

Conversation Analysis of Boke-tsukkomi Exchange in Japanese Comedy
Hideo Tsutsumi

Volume 4

Raising subjects: The representation of children and childhood in Meiji Japan
Rhiannon Paget

The gaijin at home: A study of the use of the word gaijin by the Japanese speech community in Sydney, Australia
Daniel Curtis

Evaluating Women’s Labour in 1990s Japan: The Changing Labour Standards Law
Kirsti Rawstron

The Localisation of the Hana Yori Dango Text: Plural Modernities in East Asia
Hitomi Yoshida

Learners’ Strategies for Transliterating English Loanwords into Katakana
Esther Lovely

The films of Mitani Kōki: Intertextuality and comedy in contemporary Japanese cinema
Rie Yamasaki

A Study of Social Networking Sites for Learners of Japanese
Fusako Ota

Romanticising Shinsengumi in Contemporary Japan
Rosa Lee

Power Play and Performance in Harajuku
Amelia Groom

Volume 3

The Impact of the Telegraph on Anglo-Japanese Diplomacy during the Nineteenth Century
Jack Nicholls

Things That are Near Though Distant: Extramarital Affairs in Heian-Period Japan
Matthew Grubits

Learners’ Participation in Informal Japanese-English Internet Chat
Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou

Japanese wives in Japanese-Australian intermarriages
Jared Denman

Thinking outside the Chinese Box: David Mitchell and Murakami Haruki’s subversion of stereotypes about Japan
Chikako Nihei

Teaching culture in the Japanese language classroom: A NSW case study
Caroline Mahoney

Volume 2

Gendered Language in Recent Short Stories by Japanese Women, and in English Translation
Lucy Fraser

Transcultural Flow of Demure Aesthetics: Examining Cultural Globalisation through Gothic & Lolita Fashion
Masafumi Monden

Representations of the Japanese in Contemporary Australian Literature and Film
Erika Smith

Symbols of State Ideology: The Samurai in Modern Japan
Lisa Narroway

Understanding Samurai Disloyalty
Joshua Archer

Beyond Silence: Giving Voice To Kure Mothers of Japanese- Australian Children
Kathleen Cusack

Who are the Ianfu (Comfort Women)?
Kirsten Orreill

The Replication and Excess of Disciplinary Power in Sekigun and Aum Shinrikyo – A Foucaultian Approach
Philip N. Eate

The Rise and Decline of Japanese Pacifism
Yuan Cai

After the Ainu Shinpō: The United Nations and the Indigenous People of Japan
Crystal Porter

An Investigation of L1 Influence on Japanese and Chinese Native Speakers’ Use of English Tense Forms
Rose-Ellen Kesselly

Volume 1

The Occupiers and the Occupied: A Nexus of Memories
Christine de Matos

Assessing Australian Attitudes to Japan in the Early Twentieth Century – A New Approach
Ben McInnes

Researching the History of Women in Chanoyu
Rebecca Corbett

A Long and Winding Road: Cross-Cultural Connections Between Brazil, Australia and Japan
Cristina Rocha

A Tribute to the Japanese Literature of Korean Writers in Japan
Elise Foxworth

Yaneura – The Attic
Adam Broinowski

Lessons From Japanese Family Homestays
Mayumi Parry

Making it Work: A Study of Australian Expatriate Language and Cultural Strategies for the Workplace in Japan
Sean O’Connell

Foreign Fathers – Native English Speaking Fathers’ Contributions to Bilingual Child-Rearing in Intermarried Families in Japan
Lachlan Jackson