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Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi

15 February 2024

We are delighted to announce the publication of Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill), edited by Prof Laura Moretti and Prof Satō Yukiko (The University of Tokyo).

To Rule ‘All Under Heaven’

12 February 2024

In his essay, Roel Sterckx distils the ancient philosophies that flow through China’s contemporary geopolitics.

Vicky Young delivered three guest lectures on topics in modern Japanese literature at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vietnam National University in Hanoi

06 February 2024

Dr Young was invited to deliver three lectures on modern Japanese literature in which students engaged such topics as translation, Okinawan and trans-border texts, and the relationships between modern Japanese literature and Vietnam.

“A Silent Country on the Precipice of Peace Apathy: Whither Japan and Japanese Studies?”

05 February 2024

Keynote address given by Prof Barak Kushner at the The Sixth Biennial International Conference of the Israeli Association for Japanese Studies Haifa, 17 November 2022, now available to read online.

External Event - ‘Who was Fritz Kittel? A German Railway Worker Decides, 1933–2022’

02 February 2024

A Reading and Discussion with Esther Dischereit