#BeyondJapan21 Symposium: Keynote Confirmed
January 11, 2021: We're delighted to welcome Professor Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University) as the keynote speaker for the #BeyondJapan21 symposium. As we announced last month, the next volume of NVJS…
Announcing our Next Project: NVJS13 Special Issue
Dec 12, 2020: For NVJS 13, we're doing something different (because 2020). This past year has been a departure from the usual in so many ways. Here at NVJS, we…
[REVIEW] The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media
Thomas Lamarre University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis), 2018. 415 pages. ISBN 9781517904500. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt21c4stv
Child’s Play? Exploring the Significance of Kawaii for Decora and Fairy-Kei Fashion Practitioners in Harajuku through a Case-Focused Analysis
Megan Catherine Rose UNSW Sydney and The University of Tokyo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7741-854X Published August, 2020 Pages 80-102 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21159/nvjs.12.05 © The Japan Foundation, Sydney and Megan Catherine Rose, 2020 This work…
[REVIEW] Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan
Jolyon Baraka Thomas University of Chicago Press (Chicago), 2019. 341 pages. ISBN 9780226618821.
Volume 12
Volume 12 Guest Editor: Dr Alexander Brown, University of Technology Sydney and Japan Women’s University Published August, 2020 ISSN 2205-3166 https://doi.org/10.21159/nvjs.12 © The Japan Foundation, Sydney, 2020
The Aesthetics of Linked-Verse Poetry in Yasunari Kawabata’s ‘The Lake’
Haydn Trowell Monash University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1601-1105 Published August, 2020 Pages 44-64 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21159/nvjs.12.03 © The Japan Foundation, Sydney and Haydn Trowell, 2020 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives…
The Past is With Us and Yet to Come: A Hauntological Analysis of Tsutomu Mizushima’s Anime Series, ‘Another’
Luke Beattie The University of Notre Dame Australia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8637-4278 Published August, 2020 Pages 65-79 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21159/nvjs.12.04 © The Japan Foundation, Sydney and Luke Beattie, 2020 This work is licensed under…
Academic Appointments for NVJS Alumni
Aug 4, 2020: Over recent months we've had some more great news: a number of NVJS alumni have been newly appointed to academic positions. These are exciting achievements, and we…
More NVJS Alumni publications
Aug 3, 2020: It's always a delight to share new publications by NVJS alumni. As we put the finishing touches to NVJS 12, we'd like to take a moment to…