Volume 1 Foreword
This inaugural issue of New Voices seeks to support the work of early career researchers and postgraduate students in Japanese Studies and related fields. New Voices acts as a forum…
Volume 1 Introduction
When I have an event here [Japan] and I suspend a rock, the Japanese say: ah, Western influence. We never suspend rocks. Rocks belong on the ground. If I go…
NVJS13: A Note from the Series Editor
September 17, 2021: In this post, our Series Editor Elicia O’Reilly illuminates the ecosystem of #NVJS13, with a focus on connections between contributors, Australia-based scholars and broader organisational and institutional networks. Is your…
Thank You to Our #NVJS13 Guest Editor
September 17, 2021: With the publication of #NVJS13, a big chapter in NVJS history comes to a close. We've just published our first-ever special issue, and among the many people…
Introducing NVJS13, Our First-Ever Special Issue
September 17, 2021: At last, we're excited to share our thirteenth volume, and first-ever special issue. #NVJS13 emerged from an online symposium held earlier this year, co-presented by The Japan…
From Marginality to Possibility: Doing Transgender Studies in Japanese Studies
Shu Min Yuen National University of Singapore https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0485-2206 Published September, 2021 Pages 1-18 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21159/nvjs.13.01 © The Japan Foundation, Sydney and Shu Min Yuen, 2021 This work is licensed under…
Japan as a Source of Legal Ideas: A View from the Mekong Subregion of ASEAN
Nobumichi Teramura University of Brunei Darussalam and The University of Sydney Published September, 2021 Pages 19-46 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21159/nvjs.13.02 © The Japan Foundation, Sydney and Nobumichi Teramura, 2021 This work is…
Can You Question Science in a Pandemic? Provocations on the History of Health (and Food) in Japan After COVID
Joshua Schlachet University of Arizona Published September, 2021 Pages 47-59 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21159/nvjs.13.03 © The Japan Foundation, Sydney and Joshua Schlachet, 2021 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives…
[REVIEW] Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
Allison Alexy The University of Chicago Press (Chicago and London), 2020. 248 pages. ISBN: 9780226700953 (paperback). ISBN: 9780226701004 (e-book). https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226701004.001.0001