Akihiro Ogawa (editor) - New Frontiers in Japanese Studies

Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from demystifying the Japanese, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond.

Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this book identifies topic areas in which research focusing on Japan will play an important role in global debates in the coming years. This includes the evolution of area studies, coping with ageing populations, the various patterns of migration and environmental breakdown. With chapters from an international team of contributors, including significant representation from the Asia-Pacific region, this book enacts Yoshio Sugimotos notion of cosmopolitan methodology to discuss Japan in an interdisciplinary and transnational context and provides overviews of how Japanese Studies is evolving in other Asian countries such as China and Indonesia.

New Frontiers in Japanese Studies is a thought-provoking volume and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Studies.

Akihiro Ogawa is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Melbournes Asia Institute, Australia. His major research interest is in contemporary Japanese society, focusing on civil society.

Philip Seaton is a Professor in the Institute of Japan Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. His main research areas are Japanese memories of the Asia-Pacific War and tourism induced by popular culture.

Animism in Contemporary Japan

Voices for the Anthropocene from post-Fukushima Japan

Shoko Yoneyama

Political Sociology of Japanese Pacifism

Yukiko Nishikawa

Zainichi Korean Women in Japan

Voices

Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka

Japanese Culture Through Videogames

Rachael Hutchinson

Social Trauma, Narrative Memory and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film

David C. Stahl

Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan

Bridging Social Division

Edited by Yoshikazu Shiobara, Kohei Kawabata and Joel Matthews

Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film

The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades

Marc Yamada

Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan

Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome

Genaro Castro-Vzquez

New Frontiers in Japanese Studies

Edited by Akihiro Ogawa and Philip Seaton

Edited by Akihiro Ogawa and Philip Seaton

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To our students

Simon Avenell is an Associate Professor at the Australian National University. His research interests include civil society, Japan and Asia, environmentalism, transnational activism, and political thought, with a focus on the contemporary era. His work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Japanese Studies, Environmental History, and Modern Asian Studies. His most recent book Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement (2017) recasts the history of Japanese environmental activism through a transnational lens. He is currently completing a book tentatively entitled Asia and Japans Postwar: Activism, Deimperialization, and Regional Identity.

Sachiko Horiguchi (DPhil in Social Anthropology, Oxford) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Temple University Japan Campus. Her main research interests lie in the social and medical anthropology of Japan, with particular focus on youth mental health issues, education and emerging multiculturalism in contemporary Japan. Her recent works include a chapter on long-term school nonattendance in postwar Japan (in Education in Japan in a Global Age: Sociological Reflections and Future Directions, 2018) and a chapter on hikikomori (youth social withdrawal) in contemporary Japan (in Life Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan, Routledge, 2017).

Mooam Hyun is a Professor in the Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University. His main research themes are the Korean diaspora, media and cultural studies. He is the author of Korian nettowku: media id no rekishi to kkan (Korean Networks: The History and Spaces of the Diaspora and its Media), published by Hokkaido University Press, and numerous articles on the migration and identities of the Korean diaspora and Japanese in East Asia.

Melvin Jabar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences of the De La Salle University (DLSU) College of Liberal Arts and the current Director of the Social Development Research Center (SDRC). His research interests include the sociology of education, family studies and health. He has done research funded by national and international organisations including Nutrition International, UNICEF, AXA Philippines, PCHRD, Population Media Center, and the UNILAB Foundation. He obtained his PHD in Asia Pacific Studies from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. He has a masters degree in Health Social Science (DLSU) and undergraduate degrees in Social Science (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University) and Psychology (Xavier University in the Philippines).