Europe Japan Research Centre Podcasts

Anime is (Not) Cult: Gainax and the Limits of Cult Cinema

Japanese anime, a global phenomenon and a locally powerful industry, has a tendency to be viewed...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Aesop’s Fables in Early Modern Japan

Aesop’s fables bookend early modern Japan’s image of a “closed country”. Their appearance in the...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

“Unhappy” and Isolated Youth: Representations and Experiences of Hikikomori in Contemporary Japan

Hikikimori is a category coined in the late 1990s to refer to 'youth social withdrawal,' and has...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Empathy, Social Realism, or just Love Troubles? On Japanese “Little Songs”

The Edo-period Japan (1603–1868) saw the emergence of an art music genre called Jiuta-s?kyoku....

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

The Men Who Came In from the Cold Japanese Captives in Siberia and the Making of Postwar Japan

On 15 August 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s defeat in the Second World War to millions...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

The Mouth of the Cave and the Giant Voice

It is a strange and bitter irony that the US naval bombardment which launched the Battle of...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Successful and Sorry: How high income Japanese women construct themselves in marriage agency ads

Japan is increasingly characterised by late age at marriage and rising rates of singlehood....

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

How do the past, present and future interact in post-3.11 Japan: Examining the ‘future past’ in the SF manga Copp...

This paper seeks to examine several manifestations of futurity in contemporary Japan through...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

I never said it would last forever: On Contemporary Japanese Cinema

Between 1989 and 2004, over 40 Japanese directors were introduced to major festivals and...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Dowa Project Policies as unfinished human rights business – from Dotaishin to Ikengushin

My presentation will approach the issue of Dowa Project Policies (DPP) by trying to suggest...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Japanese Language Education, Welfare and Motivation

Why does anyone voluntarily want to learn a foreign language? Really, why on earth would someone...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Translating Bash?

Following their acclaimed art and poetry exhibition, , shown in the Glass Tank this June and...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Special Forum: Dynamics of Japan’s Ageing Prison population

Adults over 60 are the fastest growing age group in Japanese prisons, and unlike other countries...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Early 20th Century Japanese Buddhist Perceptions of Western Imperialism and Why they Matter

Many Japanese Buddhist intellectuals and leaders, both lay and priestly, joined in the global...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Reaching Out to the Buddha in Modern Japan Psychotherapy and Buddhism as Two Sides of a Coin

This paper looks at the idea, popularized in the postwar period by D.T. Suzuki, Erich Fromm, and...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

The Insentient Companion Some Thoughts on Dolls, Robots and Significant Otherness

What does it mean to speak of dolls, robots and relationship simulation games as significant...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

The smile of Buddha and the laughter of the Zen master

It is a widespread assumption that the comic spirit must not be associated too closely with the...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

The Modernity of Didactic Literature for women in the Tokugawa Period

This talk examines the concept of “modernity” in the sociological sense, with reference to the...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Reflections on the division between the sacred and the secular in contemporary Japan: The case of life-cycle rituals

Following their defeat of Japan in the second World War the occupying American forces imposed...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año

Women’s Memory of Hollywood Cinema in Post-war Japan

Following their defeat of Japan in the second World War the occupying American forces imposed...

• 0
• 0
• +1 año