Meet the NVJS 13 Guest Editor
June 9, 2021: We're delighted to introduce Dr Gwyn McClelland as the Guest Editor of our upcoming volume. Gwyn is a historian of Japan who completed his PhD at Monash…
#NVJSAlumni News: Literary Translation by Haydn Trowell
June 4, 2021: NVJS 12 author Haydn Trowell recently celebrated the release of his first book-length literary translation in the form of Maki Kashimada's award-winning novella from 2012, Touring the…
#NVJSalumni News: New Article on Refugees in Japan by Atsushi Yamagata
June 3, 2021: In March this year, NVJS 11 author Atsushi Yamagata of the University of Wollongong published a paper in the Taylor & Francis journal Japanese Studies. Titled "Newspaper…
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.
[REVIEW] Okinawans Reaching Australia
John Lamb Hesperian Press, 2019. 133 pages. ISBN 9780859057479.
[REVIEW] Japanese Culture through Videogames
Rachael Hutchinson Routledge (London and New York), 2019. 294 pages. ISBN 9780367111380. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429025006