SOAS Japan Research Centre

ANNUAL REVIEW ISSUE 65: September 2014 - August 2015 Letter from the Chair

DR CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS (2014-2015) DR HELEN MACNAUGHTAN (2015-2016) センター長便り 次期センター長便り t this start of the new academic year I want elen is pleased to be taking up the position to take this opportunity to thank all JRC Dr クリストファー・ガータイス（2014-2015） of Acting Chair of the JRC for 2015- Dr ヘレン・マクノートン（2015-2016） Members, Associates, Visiting Scholars, and 16 while Chris pursues a well deserved fans on our JRC Facebook page for helping A 新年度スタートに当たり、まずは、JRCメンバー、 research opportunity. She thanks Chris for ヘレンは、2015-2016年度、クリスが既に高く評価さ to make the JRC a dynamic, enthusiastic and terribly H his outstanding stewardship of the Centre during the れている研究活動に専念する間、JRCセンター長を fun environment for the study of Japan. Thank you 同僚研究員、客員研究員、JRC Facebookファンの全 past academic year, which has seen the JRC not only 拝命し、とても光栄に思っていると言います。ここ all. ての皆様に謝意を表したいと思います。皆様には、 continue to deliver its regular programmes of high にクリスのこれまでのセンター長としての仕事に対 活気とやる気に満ちた、大変に楽しい日本研究の環 quality research seminars and annual lectures but し、感謝の意を表したいとのことです。彼女によれ I have temporarily handed the reigns over to Dr 境作りのために多くのサポートを頂きました。ここ also raise its profile in helping to fund academic staff ば、クリスは、内容の高いセミナーや通年のレクチ Helen Macnaughtan, who will serve as Acting Chair に改めてお礼申し上げます。 and postgraduate research projects as well as take on ャーを開催するというこれまで通りのJRCプログラ while I am on research leave to Humboldt University the editing of Japan Forum, the official journal of the ムを踏襲しただけではなく、実際には当センターの of Berlin in 2015-16. Helen has been an active and 私は2015-2016年度に、一年程フンボルト大学ベル British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS). 内外からの評価を上げることにも尽力しました。例 productive member of the Steering Committee these リンにて在外研究に専念致します。そのため、セン えば、研究者や博士課程研究への助成金を増大させ past several years and I am certain that her energy ター長の職責をこれより臨時にDr ヘレン・マクノ ました。また、英国日本研究会のオフィシャル学術 and drive will make her a terrific Chair of the JRC too. ートンに譲りたいと思います。ヘレンはここ数年に This will be an exciting year for the JRC 渡り、JRCの運営委員会の一員として積極的に活動 雑誌である『ジャパン・フォーラム』の編纂にも尽 incoming as SOAS approaches its Centenary year of 力しました。今年度は2016年の6月にロンドン大学 I am pleased to report that the budget is in surplus して参りました。彼女のこれまでの活躍と推進力か celebrations, SOAS創立100周年の節目を迎えるということで、ヘレ and the quality of our teaching and research at an ら、彼女が素晴らしいセンター長に成ることは疑い ンは、JRC、SOAS共に大変に楽しみな一年になると all-time peak. Indeed, our members have published の余地がありません。 言います。これに関連して、JRCでは毎年の恒例行 a diversity of quality monographs, journal article (commencing June 2016), within which we will 事となっている三つの公開講演を開催します。それ and book chapters. Many members also continue さて、当センターが財政黒字となったことをここに be acknowledging and celebrating the history of ぞれの三つの講演会には、日本史研究界をリードす to contribute to public exhibitions and media, and ご報告させて頂きたいと思います。私どもの教職、 I hope you all join Japanese studies at SOAS. With this in mind we る研究者をゲストスピーカーとしてお招きします。 as Japanese Studies at SOAS enters its 75th year I am 研究活動も更に充実したものになっており、その最 in the JRC’s year- are delighted to be hosting three leading scholars まず、2015年10月14日開催の明治神宮記念講演では excited to say that our members, and our alumni, will 盛期を迎えています。実際、当センターに所属する of Japanese History who will deliver our annual ジョーダン・サンド教授（ジョージタウン大学） figure prominently in several radio, television and film long celebration 多くの研究者が、様々な分野に渡って質の高い論 programme of JRC public lectures. Jordan Sand に、2015年11月26日開催の W.G.ビーズリー記念講演 documentaries to be released in 2015 and 2016. Stay of 75 years of 文、雑誌への寄稿、学術書の編纂、執筆活動など を行っており、彼らの多くが引き続き、公共での (Georgetown University) will deliver the Meiji Jingu では島津直子教授（ロンドン大学・バークベック・ tuned to the JRC website for further details! th Japanese Studies Annual Lecture on 14 October 2015 and Naoko カレッジ）にご講演頂きます。そして、2016年2月24 展覧会の開催やメディアへの発信等を行っていま at SOAS, which す。2015-2016年度、SOASは日本学研究開始７５周 Shimazu (Birkbeck) will deliver the WG Beasley 日に開催するアニュアル津田レクチャーには、2015 We also have a terrific line-up of lectures, seminars th Annual Lecture on 26 November 2015. In addition 年1月よりSOASの100周年記念フェローとなっておら and events planned for this academic year, including will begin with the 年記念を迎えますが、今後、私たちと共に卒業生な to this, the JRC is delighted to host Laura Hein れるローラ・ハイン教授（ノースウェスタン大学） the Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture to be given by Triannual Meeting どのラジオやテレビ番組、映像ドキュメンタリーへ (Northwestern University) as a SOAS Centenary をお招きすることになっており、大変喜ばしく思っ Professor Jordan Sand (Georgetown); the WG の出演機会も益々増えていく予定で、今から大変に of the British Fellow from January 2015 and she will be delivering ています。アニュアル津田レクチャーは、今回の開 Beasley Memorial Lecture to be given by Professor 楽しみにしています。これらのことは、2015―2016 Association for our final annual Tsuda Lecture on 24 February 2016. 催を以て最後の公開講演となります。ヘレンは、全 Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck); and the Annual Tsuda 年度に順次リリースされていく予定です。詳細は Helen looks forward to working closely with all JRC てのJRCメンバーと特に運営委員会のメンバーたち（ Lecture to be given by Professor Laura Hein Japanese Studies 追ってJRCのウェブサイトに掲載されますので、ご members - particularly the Steering Committee ジェーン・サボーイさん、Dr スティーブン・ドッ (Northwestern), who is also the SOAS Centenary to be hosted here 期待下さい！ (Jane Savory, Steve Dodd, Griseldis Kirsch and Fabio ド、Dr グリゼルディス・キルシュ、Dr ファビオ・ Fellow for 2015-16. at SOAS 10-11 皆様が一年に渡るSOAS日本学研究７５周年記念行事 Gyigi) – to ensure that the JRC continues to deliver ギギ）との緊密な協力の下、仕事をするのを楽しみ September 2015. に参画されることを願っています。一連の記念行事 its outstanding and diverse programme of research にしていると言います。そして、JRCが引き続き充実 The JRC’s publishing enterprises also flourish: は、まず9月10日と11日の二日間に渡ってSOASで開 activities, but also to ensure that the JRC can build した事業を展開し、多岐に渡る研究活動を行えるよ Stephen Dodd, Helen Macnaughtan, Griseldis Kirsch 催される、年3回の英国日本研究会主催学会を皮切 upon its current base of support and funding to meet う後押しすると同時に、当センターが現在得られて and I continue at the editorial helm of Japan Forum. りにスタート致します。 the challenges we face going into the next century of いる財政支援を引き続き受けられるように努力し、 And, the research monograph series SOAS Studies Japanese studies at SOAS. 新世紀を迎えるSOASの日本研究が益々盛んになるよ in Modern and Contemporary Japan, published in さて、JRCの出版企画も引き続き盛りだくさんで うに挑戦し続けたいとしています。 association with Bloomsbury, will see its ninth and す。Dr スティーブン・ドッドとDr ヘレン・マクノ Dr Helen Macnaughtan is Senior Lecturer in tenth books released this academic year. Indeed, we ートン、Dr グリゼルディス・キルシュと私は、雑 International Business and Management (Japan) welcome your submissions and proposals to all our 誌『ジャパン・フォーラム』の編集の舵取りをして and in-coming Chair of the Japan Research Centre publishing ventures, and we look forward to reading いますが、SOASにおける近現代日本の研究論文シリ at SOAS, University of London. Her involvement yours sometime soon. ーズは、ブルームスベリー出版との連携の下、今 with the JRC dates back to 1995 when she was JRC 年度、9、10冊程度の学術書の出版を企画していま administrator, and she has been an active member of These are but a very few of our recent collective す。私たちは、この出版企画への皆様の論文の積極 the Centre since joining the Department of Financial accomplishments, and I look forward to the 的なご応募をお待ちしています。実際、皆様が応募 and Management Studies (DeFiMS) in 2002 as opportunity to share even more. I am particularly された研究論文を読むことを今からとても楽しみに academic staff. She has served on the JRC Steering interested in hearing from each of you about ideas しています。 Committee since 2006 and is also a member of the for programing, curricular development and funding SOAS editing team for the academic journal Japan initiatives. Indeed, we thrive because you do – and Forum. Her research interests and publications focus I want the JRC to be the go-to place for Japanese on a range of topics relating to gender issues in Studies in Europe. Japan, including employment, business and sport.

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Dr Satoshi MIYAMURA FINANCIAL AND HISTORY LANGUAGES AND Dr Griseldis KIRSCH LINGUISTICS Lecturer in Economy of Japan Lecturer in Contemporary JRCは、日本国外における日 Expertise: Development MANAGEMENT CULTURES OF JAPAN Japanese Culture 本学専門家の最大規模の組織 Dr Christopher GERTEIS Dr Noriko IWASAKI economics; labour economics; STUDIES AND KOREA Expertise: Contemporary の一つであり、会員の研究専 Senior Lecturer in History of Senior Lecturer in Language labour-management bargaining; Japanese culture with 門分野は 人類学、芸術、経 Contemporary Japan Pedagogy; Chair for Centre for mathematical economics; Ms Yoshiko JONES Dr Midori Tanaka ATKINS particular interest in television; 済学、地理学、歴史学、文 Expertise: Modern and Language Pedagogy statistics; econometrics; Teaching Fellow in Financial Senior Teaching Fellow in representation of “Otherness” 学、法学、メディア学、音 contemporary Japanese history, Expertise: Psycholinguistics, research methods in economics and Management Studies Japanese within the fictional media genre 楽、言語学、政治学、社会 especially the intersection second language acquisition, [email protected] [email protected] Expertise: Japanese literature [email protected] 学、と多岐にわたる。 of consumer capitalism and language pedagogy historical memory; social and [email protected] [email protected] Dr Ulrich VOLZ Dr Helen MACNAUGHTAN cultural history of the 20th Dr Barbara PIZZICONI Senior Lecturer in Senior Lecturer in International century; work and gender Dr Marcos CENTENO Reader in Applied Japanese ANTHROPOLOGY Development Economics Business & Management [email protected] Lecturer in Film Studies Linguistics / Head, Department International Finance, Open (Japan) / Chair, Japan Expertise: Japanese fiilm of the Languages and Cultures POLITICS AND Economy Macroeconomics, Research Centre [email protected] of Japan and Korea INTERNATIONAL Dr Fabio R GYGI Dr Angus LOCKYER Financial Market Development Expertise: Employment, Expertise: Japanese applied Lecturer in Anthropology Lecturer in the History of Japan STUDIES and Stability, Development and human resource management, Dr Alan CUMMINGS linguistics; language teaching Expertise: Anthropology of Expertise: Modernisation Transition Economics, Global gender and economic Senior Teaching Fellow in methodology; second language Japan, material and visual and modernity in Japan; Dr Yuka KOBAYASHI Economic Governance, East development in Japan Japanese acquisition with emphasis on culture, medical anthropology, world’s fairs, international and Lecturer in Chinese Politics Asian Financial Markets [email protected] Expertise: Pre-modern pragmatic aspects; linguistic popular culture, gender, industrial exhibitions Expertise: China and [email protected] language, literature, and politeness embodiment and performance [email protected] international politics; WTO; JRC Steering Ms Sonja RUEHL drama; Tokugawa theatre and [email protected] [email protected] environment and human rights Committee Fellow in Financial and Dr Martyn SMITH popular culture; the history and [email protected] Management Studies Teaching Fellow aesthetics of Japanese post-war Dr Nana SATO-ROSSBERG • Prof Stephen Dodd Expertise: Financial sector Expertise: Theories of nation, popular culture and subculture Lecturer in Translation Studies Dr Kristen SURAK • Dr Christopher Gerteis ECONOMICS development in Japan nationalism and national [email protected] Expertise: History of Translation Senior Lecturer in • Dr Fabio Gygi and Vietnam, gender issues identity; modern Japanese Studies in Japan, Intergeneric Japanese Politics Professor Costas LAPAVITSAS • Dr Griseldis Kirsch in financing development, history Professor Stephen H DODD translations (manga to film), Expertise: International Professor of Economics • Dr Helen Macnaughtan microfinance institutions [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Japanese Translation of oral narratives or migration, nationalism, ethnicity, Expertise: Japan: theory of • Mrs Jane Savory in Vietnam Expertise: Modern Japanese orality, Cultural translation, The culture , state and society in banking and finance; history [email protected] literature, with particular interest relationship between translation Japan, qualitative sociology of economic thought; the in representations of the native and power [email protected] Japanese financial system Dr Yoshikatsu SHINOZAWA HISTORY OF ART place (furusato), gender/ [email protected] [email protected] Senior Lecturer in AND ARCHAEOLOGY sexuality and modernity Financial Studies [email protected] Dr Isolde STANDISH Expertise: Equity, investment, Dr Meri ARICHI Reader in Film and Media STUDY OF RELIGIONS CONTENTS asset management, Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Akiko FURUKAWA Studies corporate finance Expertise: Buddhist Art, Principal Lector in Japanese Expertise: Film and media Dr Lucia DOLCE 4 JRC academic membership [email protected] Religious syncretism in medieval [email protected] studies with a special interest in Reader in Japanese Religion and Japanese 6 Members’ highlights from the academic year Japan Japan and Korea, World Cinema Tuukka TOIVONEN [email protected] Professor Andrew GERSTLE and the Transcultural Expertise:Japanese religious 12 Event listing Lecturer in International Professor of Japanese Studies [email protected] history, especially the medieval period; Japanese 14 Event reports Management Professor Timon SCREECH Expertise: Japanese literature Expertise: Organisational Professor of the History of Art drama and thought, primarily Mrs Kaori TANIGUCHI Tantric Buddhism and the 21 Japanese roof garden sociology; social innovation and Expertise: History of Japanese of the Tokugawa period, with Senior Lector in Japanese esotericisation of religious practice; Millenarian writings 22 Research students entrepreneurship; collaborative art; Edo painting; contacts particular interest in Bunraku [email protected] innovation communities and between Japan and Europe and Kabuki theatre and the and prophecy; Kami-Buddhas 24 SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan networks; the emergence in the 18th century; history of plays of Chikamatsu associations [email protected] 25 Japan Forum of alternative organisational science in Japan; the theory [email protected] LIBRARY AND models and institutional of art history 26 Honorary Appointments news and highlights frameworks; youth-led social [email protected] Ms Misako KANEHISA INFORMATION Mr Tullio LOBETTI 34 Kayoko Tsuda bursary (Jaanese studies) entrepreneurship; youth Senior Lector in Japanese SERVICES Senior Teaching Fellow issues in Japan; social policy; [email protected] Expertise: Study of religion 36 SOAS library report in Japan comparative research (esp. Ms Fujiko KOBAYASHI [email protected] 37 Mejii Jingu: research grants and scholarships Europe and East Asia) Mrs Miwako KASHIWAGI Librarian (Japan and Korea) 40 Sasakawa postgraduate studentships [email protected] Senior Lector in Japanese [email protected] [email protected] 42 School wide events 47 Connect with the JRC

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ANDREW GERSTLE ELECTED FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Stephen DODD Lucia DOLCE Andrew GERSTLE Professor in Japanese Numata Reader in Japanese Buddhism Professor of Japanese Studies

In the academic year The year began with draws on that research and is provisionally This past year Andrew ndrew Gerstle, Professor between September a signing ceremony entitled “Of Monks and Embryos: Buddhist Gerstle was based of Japanese Studies has アンドリュー・ガーストル 英国 2014 and August that marked Lucia Embryology and Construction of the Ritual in Kyoto at the been elected Fellow of 人文社会科学学士院フェローへ選 2015, Steve Dodd has Dolce’s appointment Body in Mediaeval Japan.” International Research the British Academy for A 出される been on sabbatical as Numata Reader in Center for Japanese 2014/15 along with 3 other SOAS in Tokyo, where he Japanese Buddhism Studies (Nichibunken) scholars. is based at Sophia (full details on page PUBLICATIONS during his research アンドリュー・ガーストルは、12年 University. In early 35). leave. He gave two The British Academy is the UK’s 間に渡りオーストラリア国立大学で September, before “The Practice of Religion in Japan: An public lectures for national body which champions 教鞭をとった後、1993年よりSOASに leaving for Japan, he attended a conference Throughout the year Lucia took part Exploration of the State of the Field,” in Nichibunken, one in Kyoto (Dec) and one in and supports the humanities and て日本学の教授を務めてきました。 at the University Paris Didérot entitled in a number of international events: in Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies, Tokyo (Feb) at the International House. He social sciences elects up to 42 これまでに、18冊にも及ぶ学術書の ‘Rereading Kawabata in the 21st Century: September she gave the Numata lecture at James Babb ed., Sage Publications, 2014, was also invited to join a symposium at the outstanding UK-based scholars 編集や翻訳を行ってくる傍ら、SOAS Modernism and Japonism Beyond the the University of Toronto and held a Numata pp. 33-63 (reprint with amendments of National Institute for Japanese LIterature each year. Its purpose is to ではJRCのセンター長や学部長、ま Myths,’ where he gave a paper, ‘Modernism seminar on ritual in Japanese Buddhism Dolce 2012). in Tokyo (Nov). In September 2014 he was inspire, recognise and support た副院長を歴任してきました。 and Politics in the 1920s: A Comparison of at McMaster University (Canada). In March invited to Hong Kong to join the Humanities excellence and high achievement Kawabata Yasunari and Yokomitsu Riichi.’ she was in Lisbon for the final Symposium “Possession and Exorcism in Japanese Panel of the RAE that reviewed the research in the humanities and social ガーストル教授の研究対象は、日本 of the Project “Interactions between Religions,” in Spirit Possession around the of the nine HK universities. sciences throughout the UK and の伝統芸能と文学、そして視覚芸術 In Japan, Steve moved on to a new area of Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist World, Joseph Laycocl ed., ABC-CLIO, 2015. internationally. です。教授は大英博物館にて二度開 research, specifically Translation Studies. Sects in Japan during the Portuguese,” He also published a short article on 催された展覧会の共同監督を務めま He used the sabbatical period to read as of which she has been a member. In “The Embryonic Generation of the Perfect exhibiting shunga in the Kyoto Shinbun 12 Andrew Gerstle has been at した。一つ目は2005年に行われた大 much as possible in order to get a sense July she was discussant at the workshop Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese June 2015. His research has continued to SOAS since 1993 as Professor 阪歌舞伎展で、日本では二か所で巡 of the field. At the same time, he took the “Buddhist Studies Today” of the Robert Ho Tantric Sources,” in Embryology and (Re) focus on shunga of the 18th century. He of Japanese Studies, and before 回展示されました。二つ目の展覧 opportunity to give several presentations on Foundation Programme in Buddhist Studies Birth in East Asian Religions, Anna Andreeva was a member of the special group that is that was 12 years at the Australian 会は2013年に開催された大春画展 the state of his present research. organized by the American Council of and Dominic Steavu, eds. Leiden: Brill (Sir supporting the Eisei Bunko Museum, which National University. He has written, です。こちらは、これまでで最も Learned Societies at the University of British Henry Wellcome Asian Series), 2015. will host a major exhibition on shunga from edited or translated as many as 18 予算の掛かった展覧会となり、「 In January 2015, he attended a conference Columbia (Vancouver). 19 Sept to 23 Dec 2015, which follows on books, and at SOAS has served as 春画―日本美術における性とたのし ‘Queer Theory and Japanese Literature: “Performance, Asceticism and the Power of from the 2013 British Museum exhibition. JRC Chair, Head of Department み」と題して、大英博物館で大々的 Longing for a Queer Reading,’ at In the UK, in addition to the usual activities Ritual: The Repentance Liturgy of Tōdaiji,” Former Prime Minister Hosokawa Morohira and Associate Dean. に開催されました。この大英博物館 Ritsumeikan University, and gave a talk of the SOAS Centre for the Study of Dharma World 2015. (Head of Eisei Bunko) announced the で開催された大春画展を基にした展 entitled ‘Queer Text toshite no Kokoro: Japanese Religions, she organised an exhibition plans at a press conference in Professor Gerstle’s work focuses 覧会は、2015年の秋に日本では初の honyaku gaku o tôshite.’ At Sophia international workshop on “The Life of the Tokyo on 21 May 2015. This will be the first on Japanese traditional theatre, 大きな春画展として、永青文庫美術 University, he participated in a symposium, Buddha”: A Narrative genre and the image such exhibition in Japan. literature and the visual arts. He 館にて開催されます。 ‘Isseikigo ni yominaosu Sôseki no “Kokoro,”’ of India in Japan and East Asia” (October has co-curated two exhibitions at where he spoke on the relationship 2014) and co-organised, with Caroline the British Museum. The first was between queer literary readings and Hirasawa (Sophia University and Sisjac PUBLICATIONS on Osaka Kabuki theatre in 2005, translation studies. He has also presented Fellow), the workshop “From the Ephemeral which traveled on to two venues papers as Nishôgakusha and Tokyo Gaigo to the Eternal: Modest Materialities of the 「パロディ春画の意義」 ‘Significance in Japan. In 2013 he then co- Universities. This year, he has been less Sacred in Japan” at the Sainsbury Institute of of Parody in Shunga’. Proceedings of the curated the most comprehensive keen on writing up research as in laying the Arts and Cultures, Norwich (July 2015). 38th International Conference on Japanese exhibition to date on Japanese foundations for future work through reading Literature, National Institute of Japanese traditional erotic art and literature, of basic materials, but I have managed to Outreach activities included the BBC Radio Literature, Tokyo, March, 2015, pp. 239-259. known as shunga in Japanese. get some publications out during the year. Four programme “In Our Time” on Zen (Dec The exhibition ‘Shunga: sex and 2014), a public lecture on “Extravaganza ‘Digital Humanities: What Collaborative pleasure in Japanese art’ took and Ascetism in Japanese Temples” at the Projects Can Achieve’, Art Research, place at the British Museum. A PUBLICATIONS Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Ritsumeikan Art, Research Center, vol, 15, shunga exhibition based on the (London, January) and a lecture on Esoteric March 2015, pp. 3-11. British Museum show will be held Dodd, Stephen. “Gaikan: Eikoku no Nihon Buddhism at the Shinnyoen Centre in New in Tokyo this autumn 2015 at Eisei bungaku kenkyû,” in Nihon kindai bungaku York (March). パロディ春本で女性解放運動」『芸術新潮』 Bunko Museum, the first time ever 92 (May, 2015): pp.176-188. ２０１５年正月、 ６４〜７３頁. Article in for a major exhibition on shunga Lucia has continued her archival research a special issue of Geijutsu Shincho on the in Japan. in Japan on Buddhist manuscripts, funded artist Tsukioka Settei. by a two-year British Academy Leverhulme small grant (May-June). She has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship and will be on research leave for the academic year 2015-2016, working on a monograph that

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Christopher GERTEIS Fabio GYGI Noriko IWASAKI Griseldis KIRSCH Angus LOCKYER Helen MACNAUGHTAN Senior Lecturer in History of Lecturer in Applied Japanese Linguistics Senior Lecturer in Language Pedagogy Lecturer in Contemporary Lecturer in the History of Japan Senior Lecturer in International Business & Contemporary Japan Japanese Culture Management (Japan)

Christopher Gerteis Fabio Gygi In 2014/15, as the In September Angus Lockyer In November 2014 had a very productive presented at the Chair of the Japanese 2014, Griseldis was working on a Helen was Academic year as JRC Chair, and EAJS conference in Language Teachers Kirsch organised number of projects Coordinator for the much enjoyed the Ljubljana on a panel Association in Europe, the symposium this year, including EU-funded Executive variety of seminars, on rubbish in Japan, e.V. (AJE), Noriko Gambarou Nippon the completion of a Training Programmes lectures, workshops, which will result in Iwasaki organised - Imagi(ni)ng Japan book manuscript on (ETP) for Japan and conferences an edited volume the 18th Japanese post 3/11 at SOAS, Japan and exhibitions and Korea which hosted by the JRC this called “Consuming Language Education which brought and the design of a successfully delivered year. Post-Bubble Symposium as part together people new BA programme its third annual cycle Japan”. In December he gave a talk at the of the EAJS Conference in Ljubljana, with 5 working on the implications that the Great in Global Liberal Arts, to be launched in of lectures and He was also very pleased to part of the Ochanomizu International Japanese Studies panel presentations, 32 oral and 29 poster East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima 2016-17. He also began work on a project workshops at SOAS (see page 42). She has SOAS Editorial Team’s editorship of Japan Consortium representing SOAS together presentations. Noriko also edited the Nuclear Disaster had on Japanese culture on Katsushika Hokusai, in collaboration been on sabbatical leave during 2014-15 Forum, and thrilled to see the publication with PhD candidate Alessia Costa. Proceedings volume 『ヨーロッパ日本語 (see page 14). In February, she was invited with colleagues at the British Museum and has been focusing on research relating of six more books in the SOAS Studies in 教育19』, which is now also shelved in the to the University of Cambridge for a lecture, and in Japan. This involved research trips to gender and employment in Japan. Modern and Contemporary Japan series With the generous help of a small research SOAS Library. Her paper「ある日本語学習 speaking about Japan’s China Dreams to collections and exhibitions in Paris in She has made several fieldwork trips to published in association with Bloomsbury. grant awarded by the JRC he spent the 者の日本・日本語観の変遷：曖昧さをめぐ - Imagining China’s Rise in Japanese September, in Tokyo, Hakone, and Obuse in Japan during the year to gather data and month of April in Tokyo on fieldwork, って」is also in the volume. This work was Cinema and Television Drama. In March, October, and in Washington DC, New York, conduct interviews assessing both policy While at the Humboldt University of Berlin working with men who self-identified as supported by Meiji Jingu Small Grant. In she was invited to Nichibunken in Kyoto, and Boston in June, and culminated with and business impact of the government-led during academic year 2015-16, he will be “men who cannot tidy up”. November 2014, she completed the tenure presenting a talk on Remaking History - an application to the Arts and Humanities ‘Womenomics’ strategy. This included a visit working on currently working on his book of the AJE chair and commenced her new Watashi wa kai ni naritai and the Politics Research Council for a major grant. to the Hokkaido Economic Federation in manuscript Angry, Young and Mobile: The In June he presents a new research paper role as the Deputy Chair. of Memory. In May, she gave a keynote March 2015, coinciding with International Attractions of Political Violence in 20th on “The Sacred and How to Get Rid of It” at speech at the 3rd conference Japan, He also gave a number of talks and visiting Women’s Day, where she met with the Century Japan, which investigates the the SISJAC workshop “From the Ephemeral In February 2015, she and Barbara Pizziconi Romania - cross points in a global context, lectures during the year: a lecture on labour team to discuss the regional impact extent to which affordable airline travel to the Eternal: Modest Materialities of the started a new project Study abroad in held at the Romanian American University Japanese golf and a seminar on institutional of Womenomics activities. Helen also influenced the radicalization of socially Sacred in Japan”. A further paper on the Japan and the development of intercultural in Bucharest, speaking about Japan’s theory at the Freie Universität Berlin in interviewed Human Resource Managers in alienated youth. Tsukumogamiki is planned for the JAWS competence, which is funded by JRC Small challenges for the 21st century and in June, February; a talk, ‘The inadequacy of culture: several Japanese companies during June/ conference in Istanbul. From September Grant and the Faculty of Languages and she spoke at the Workshop Hello Kitty and fascism and Japan, before (and after) the July 2015 to assess the corporate response Angry, Young and Mobile narrates how 2015 he is teaching a new course called Cultures. International Relations at the University of war,’ for the inaugural seminar of the Japan to Womenomics and in particular to discuss the cultural economics of affordable air “Mind, Culture and Psychiatry” that will Warwick. Furthermore, she has been doing Research Network Edinburgh in March; a the progress of diversity management travel combined with the emergent radical have a strong focus on psychoanalysis and some consultancy work for a television talk and conversation ‘On Global History,’ strategy in firms (see page 37). She is very youth politics to auger the emergence of psychiatry in Japan. PUBLICATIONS production company. at the Institute for Global Law and Policy grateful to both the Japan Foundation the trans-national terror organizations that colloquium at Harvard University in June; Endowment Committee and to Meiji Jingu rocked the world in the early 1970s. Iwasaki, Noriko (2015). Sentence production and some concluding comments, ‘Meiji in (Research Grants for SOAS Staff) for funding PUBLICATIONS models to consider for L2 Japanese PUBLICATIONS the World,’ for an international conference, enabling her to carry out fieldwork during sentence production research. In Mineharu ‘Global History and the Meiji Restoration,’ at 2014-15. PUBLICATIONS Gygi, Fabio. Pathologies of Consumption: Nakayama (Ed.), Handbook of Japanese Kirsch, Griseldis (2015) Contemporary Sino- Heidelberg University in July. Material Affluence and Material Excess in Psycholinguistics (pp. 545-581). In Japanese Relations on Screen: A History, Helen continues as Co-Editor of Japan Gerteis, Christopher and Dower, John W Post-Bubble Japan. In Kasia Cwiertka and Masayoshi Shibatanai and Taro Kageyama 1989-2005. Bloomsury. He was briefly back in Japan in the spring Forum this coming academic year, and (2014) ‘Political Protest in Interwar Japan Ewa Machotka (eds) Consuming Post- (Eds.) Handbooks of Japanese Language to introduce and attend the second in a is also the academic lead for the British Part I 戦間期日本の政治的抗議活動「上」.’ Bubble Japan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam and Linguistics Volume 9. Berlin/Boston: de bi-national series of six lectures, ‘Tokyo Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) The Asia-Pacific Journal, 12 (32.1). University Press, forthcoming. Gruyter Mouton. Futures: 1868-2020.’ The series is a co- Triannual Conference to be hosted by the production of Meiji Jingu and SISJAC and JRC on 10-11 September 2015. Gerteis, Christopher and George, Timothy Iwasaki, Noriko (2015). 「ある日本語学習者 the first two lectures, both on nature, were S (2014) ‘Beyond the Bubble, Beyond の日本・日本語観の変遷：曖昧さをめぐっ held in Norwich in April and Tokyo in May. Fukushima: Reconsidering the History of て」『ヨーロッパ日本語教育19』pp.65-70. The third, which will double up as the PUBLICATIONS Postwar Japan / バブルのかなた、福島のか coming year’s Meiji Jingu Annual Lecture, なたとは 戦後日本史再考.’ The Asia-Pacific will be given at SOAS in October 2015 by Macnaughtan, Helen (January 2015). ‘Abe’s Journal, 12 (8.3). Jordan Sand, of Georgetown University, Womenomics needs to include men too’. under the title ‘Between Imperial Capital East Asia Forum. and World City: The Tourist’s Tokyo a Century Ago.’ The final lecture on the UK Macnaughtan, Helen (March 2015). side will be given at the British Museum in ‘Womenomics for Japan: is the Abe policy February 2016. for gendered employment viable in an era of precarity?’ The Asia-Pacific Journal, 13 (12 /1).

Macnaughtan, Helen (August 2015). ‘Is Abe’s womenomics working?’ Australia- Japan Research Centre (AJRC) and East Asia 8 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC Forum. SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 9 Academic Members News Highlights from the academic year

Barbara PIZZICONI Nana SATO-ROSSBERG Timon SCREECH Isolde STANDISH Kristen SURAK Tuukka TOIVONEN Reader in Applied Japanese Linguistics / Lecturer in Translation Studies Professor of the History of Art Reader in Film and Media Studies, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Politics Lecturer in International Management Head, Japan and Korea Department Department of Japan and Korea

While learning the Nana Sato-Rossberg Timon Screech has Isolde Standish has Over the past PUBLICATIONS ropes of departmental has joined SOAS in been on sabbatical been awarded a year, Kristin Surak headship (and getting September 2014 and for this academic Leverhulme Major continued her work Following a series of to know all the staff in endeavored to build year. For the first Research Fellowship on the tea ceremony prior collaborative JAK and CIA), Barbara up Japanese and four months he was for a two year and nationalism activities, Noritoshi Pizziconi completed East Asian Translation a Yale University on sabbatical (beginning while pursuing an Furuichi (Japan’s the editing of the Studies, internationally a writing-up grant, 1 September, 2015) to additional project on best-known young volume on ‘Teaching and at the School. and during that time complete her study: migration in East Asia. sociologist) and and Learning (im) was able to complete Oshima Nagisa: A Her book Making Tuukka Toivonen politeness’ (due out in autumn 2015) and a Nana gave an invited lecture on 5 February his major new history of the East India Politics of Cinema. Tea, Making Japan: finally published a co-edited volume, ‘Kokka chapter on Japanese modality (due out in 2015 on “Translating Culture Thickly: Company and its first sailings to Japan, Cultural Nationalism in Practice was named ga Yomigaeru Toki: Motazaru Kuni de aru 2016). Mashiho Chiri and Translation of Ainu tentatively entitled ‘The Shogun’s Silver In Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese the Outstanding Book of the Year for 2014 Finrando ga Nandomo Saisei Dekita Oral Tradition”. This was a part of the UCL Telescope’. Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and by the American Sociological Association’s Riyuu’ (Magazine House) in June 2015. She has also started data collection for a Translation in History Lectures Series. Nana 1970s (2011), she argued that out of the Section on Asia. A Japanese translation is long-term study of learners of Japanese also gave an invited lecture at Ritsumeikan Since New Year he has been at Waseda background of war, occupation and the under contract with Ohsumi Publishers. This book features original essays by and their development in linguistic and University on 21 July 2015 on “Developing working on his next project, which is the legacies of Japan’s post-defeat politics, leading Finnish authors as well as Tuukka’s intercultural skills following the period Translation Studies in the Japanese Japan volume for the Oxford History of Art there emerged in the 1960s a dissentient own commentaries on innovation, of study abroad. The study is conducted Context”. series. group of avant-garde filmmakers who Making Tea, Making Japan: entrepreneurship, education, youth and in collaboration with Noriko Iwasaki and created a counter-cinema that both Cultural Nationalism in Practice happiness in Finland. It is intended not only colleagues in France and Australia. Nana has obtained a JRC small grant and challenged mainstream conservative was named the Outstanding as another book on Finnish society, but as traveled in Japan to conduct a joint project domestic and international political policies, a stimulant for intellectual discussion on on “1970’s Japanese Translation Studies”. and dominant historical interpretations of Book of the Year for 2014 by Japan’s own adaptability and renewal. The PUBLICATIONS Nana has stayed at Kyoto Nichibun-ken in Japan’s imperialist ambitions on the Asian the American Sociological book immediately became the number July and in Tokyo in August. mainland between 1931 and defeat in the Association’s Section on Asia one best-selling volume in the European Her article ‘Japanese Discourses on Pacific War in 1945. Ōshima Nagisa (1932- studies category on Amazon Japan and is Nuclear Power in the Aftermath of the 2013) was central to this movement as not now being reviewed by several high-profile Fukushima Disaster’. In Contemporary PUBLICATIONS only did he experiment with very different Kristin was also awarded a fellowship at the scholars and commentators in Japan. It has Japan - Challenges for a World Economic conceptions of visual-style that challenged Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, been published in Japanese only. Power in Transition, Calvetti Paolo and Edited volume images and narratives dominant in the where she will continue her migration Mariotti Marcella (eds). Universita’ Ca’ Curran, Beverley, Sato-Rossberg, Nana films of the mainstream ‘major’ studios, he research in the upcoming academic year. Foscari Digital Publishing, pp: 161-188 and Tanabe, Kikuko, eds. (2015) Multiple was also a prolific writer and social critic Her critical review article “Re-Selling Japan” (http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/col/ Translation Communities in Contemporary publishing thirteen books and numerous appeared in the New Left Review, and she dbc/9/97/JapStuds/3) has been published Japan. New York: Routledge. journal articles. published a short piece, “Culture, Nation, in July 2015 and is available in Open Access and the Tea Ceremony,” in the Center for at: http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/col/ Book Chapter Timon Screech points out the details of a monument to In this study, through an analysis of Comparative Japanese Studies Annual. the HRH Duke of Gloucester, the Ambassador of Japan, dbc/9/97/JapStuds/3 Sato-Rossberg, Nana (2015) ‘Translating Marquess of Salisbury and the Dean of Westminster, during Ōshima’s writings in conjunction with his Kamui-gaiden: Intergeneric Translation the final ceremony of Japan400, held in December, 2014 films and their critical reception in Japan, The year was also one of much travel, from Manga to Live Action Film.’ In: Curran, at Westminster Abbey. the aim is to reach an understanding of which took her to several universities to Beverley and Sato-Rossberg, Nana and how Ōshima himself conceptualized and discuss her tea book, including Princeton, Tanabe, Kikuko, (eds.), Multiple Translation articulated his filmmaking practices and Columbia, UNC-Chapel Hill, Zurich, Communities in Contemporary Japan. how these practices were informed by his Cambridge, Michigan, Oxford, Doshisha, Oxon; New York: Routledge, pp. 42-59. political beliefs, and how his films impacted and Tokyo University, among others. on and contributed to counter-cultural She also presented her current research Articles debates within Japan. on migration policies at the American Sato-Rossberg, Nana (2015) ‘Nihon ni okeru Sociological Association’s annual meeting gengo no fukususei to Translation Studies.’ in San Francisco and at the Japan Society in Japanese Language Education in Europe, London. 19. pp. 41-46.

Sato-Rossberg, Nana (2014) ‘共振と呼応 (Resonance and Echo) – 1970 nendai nihon ni okeru Translation Studies no houga.’ Misuzu, 11 (632). pp. 6-13.

10 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 11 Event Listing 2014-2015: annual lectures, conferences and the weekly seminars series

SEMINAR SERIES WINTER TERM KEY EVENTS Annual Tsuda Lecture Symposium 25 FEBRUARY 2015 4 - 5 JULY 2015 Bernard R Faure (Kao Professor of Japanese Shifting Perspectives – Categories, 7 JANUARY 2015 Workshop Religion, Columbia University) Materials and the Interdisciplinary Study of Professor Katsuyuki Hidaka 3-4 SEPTEMBER 2014 ‘Give me Some Skin’: The Cult of Datsueba Early Modern Japan 先に触れたJRC主催の講演会は、毎週 (Ritsumeikan) Gambarou Nippon – Imagi(ni)ng Japan in Medieval Japan 40名を超す出席者に恵まれた。参加者 Keynote speakers Consuming the Past: Japanese Media post 3/11 には専門分野の知識を深めるだけでな • Prof Peter Kornicki (Cambridge and the Twenty-first Century く、日本についての全く新しい見識を University) With: Centre for Film Studies Speakers Toshiba Luncheon series 得る機会を提供してきた。多岐にわた • Koichi Iwabuchi 09 MARCH 2015 • Prof Yabuta Yutaka (Kansai University) る本講演の主題は、学際的な日本関連 14 JANUARY 2015 • Akiko Nagata in conversation with Aaron Moore 研究のテーマが驚くほど幅広いことを Professor Christopher Goto-Jones • Yohei Koyama (University of Manchester) Opening remarks 示唆している。 (Leiden) and Dr Florian Schneider • Christopher Hood • Shane McCausland (SOAS, University (Leiden) • Kyoko Iwaki of London) Gamic Orientalism and Virtual Ninja • Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt Book launch Theory • Pablo Figueroa 13 JANUARY 2015 Presenters With Department of Politics and • Kenichiro Aratake (Tohoku University, AUTUMN TERM • Barbara Geilhorn 21 JANUARY 2015 • Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS, University of International Studies Sendai) Dr Martin Dusinberre (Zurich) Making Tea, Making Japan, Cultural • Claire-Akiko Brisset (Université Paris 15 OCTOBER 2014 London) Japan, Global History, and the Nationalism in Practice Diderot) Dr L Halliday Piel (Manchester) • Dolores P. Martinez (SOAS, University persistent Great Silence Dr Kristin Surak (SOAS, University of • Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds) Patriotic Service or Youth Exploitation? of London) London) • Yokota Fuyuhiko (Kyoto University) Japanese Students and the Wartime 28 JANUARY 2015 • Suzuki Hiroyuki (Tokyo Gakugei Labor Service, 1941–45 Dr Edward Kamens (Yale) Toshiba Luncheon series University) The Long Bridge at Seta: Film Screening • Radu Leca (SOAS, University of 22 OCTOBER 2014 30 SEPTEMBER 2014 Reconsidering Daijøe Poetry 10 FEBRUARY 2015 London) Dr Harald Conrad (Sheffield) in conversation with Professor Theodore Love Hotel • Ewa Machotka (Leiden University) Managing (Un)Certainties - Economic Bestor, Professor Vicky Bestor and 4 FEBRUARY 2015 Phil Cox and Toda Hikaru • Doreen Mueller (SOAS, University of Sociology Perspectives on the Japanese Professor Patricia Steinhoff Dr Martyn Smith (SOAS, University London) Antique Art Trade of London) • Morihiro Satow (Kyoto Seika University) A ‘MAD’ age: Heibon Punch, Media, Film Screening and Director’s Q&A 29 OCTOBER 2014 Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture • Niels van Steenpaal (Kyoto University) Student Protest and Consumer Culture 4 MARCH 2015 Dr Jeffrey W Alexander (Wisconsin – 1 OCTOBER 2014 • Hiroyuki Suzuki (Tokyo Gakugei in 1960s Japan A Home Within Foreign Borders (異境の中 Parkside) Professor Theodore Bestor (Reischauer University) の故郷) Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard • Hans B. Thomsen (University of Zurich) 18 FEBRUARY 2015 Japanese Beer Industry University) • Fuyuhiko Yokota (Kyoto University) Iris Haukamp (Kayoko Tsuda Bursary Washoku on the World Stage: Japanese Particpants Recipient 2014-2015) • Keiko Ōkawa 12 NOVEMBER 2014 Traditional Cuisine as UNESCO Intangible Discussants Restricted response: Itami Mansaku’s Dr Mark Pendleton (Sheffield) Cultural Heritage • Dr Alan Cummings (SOAS, University of • Rebekah Clements (Cambridge reaction to Arnold Fanck’s ‘dream of The Battles of Battleship Island: History, London) University) Japan’ in New Earth (Atarashiki tsuchi, Memory, Heritage • Dr Midori Tanaka Atkins (SOAS, • Christine Guth (Royal College of Arts, 1937) Lecture and cooking demonstration University of London) V&A) 19 NOVEMBER 2014 7 OCTOBER 2014 • Dr Nana Sato-Rossberg (SOAS, • Alfred Haft (British Museum, SISJAC) Dr Eriko Kay (Robert and Lisa Sainsbury 4 MARCH 2015 Dr Tim Anderson (Chef) University of London) • Patti Kameya (University of St. Thomas) Keiko Okawa (Author Yuju Wen and Fellow, Sainsbury’s Institute for the Nanban: Japanese Soul Food • Morihiro Satow Thomas Brook) Studies of Japanese Arts and Cultures) A Home Within Foreign Borders (異境 The Reception to Nihonga by the Public の中の故郷) and the Meiji Art Market: Study for Toshiba Luncheon series Hishida Shunso (1874-1911) 8 DECEMBER 2014 11 MARCH 2015 in conversation with Professor Janet Dr Volker Elis (Cologne) 26 NOVEMBER 2014 Hunter Making sense of the Japanese Dr Oleg Benesch (York) countryside Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Lecture Nationalism, Internationalism, and 8 DECEMBER 2014 18 MARCH 2015 Bushido in Modern Japan Professor Janet Hunter (LSE) Dr Noel Pinnington (Arizona) WG Beasley Memorial Lecture Locating Zeami in the history of Noh 3 DECEMBER 2014 ‘Bad Practices’ and ‘Fraudulent Means’: Dr Noriko Horiguchi (Tennessee) Japan and International Debates on 22 APRIL 2015 Women Adrift: Narratives and Memories Commercial Morality in the Late 19th – Early Kenji Aramaki (SOAS, University of of Empire in Modern Japan 20th Centuries London) The long stagnation, Deflation and the Challenges for the Japanese economy

12 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 13 Event Reports The convenors reflect back on events

Symposium Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture Gambarou Nippon – Imagi(ni)ng Japan post 3/11 Washoku on the World Stage: Japanese Traditional C.ベストー教授（ハーバード大学）がこの10月に、2014年度明治 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 Cuisine as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage 神宮記念講演でお話しをされました。この講演は明治神宮ご後援

1 OCTOBER 2014 の下、毎年秋に開催される公開フォーラムで、一般の皆様に広く 公開することで、多くの皆様に日本研究に関する知識を高めて頂 With the kind support of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation In the afternoon, Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS) talked about the くことを目的としています。 Professor Iwabuchi opened the day with a very well received significance of NHK World and the consumption of some of its In October Professor Theodore C. Bestor (Harvard) gave the 2014 keynote speech on the role of the media in making sense of most iconic programmes around the world – and how audiences Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture. Supported by the generosity of the ベストー教授は、本講演で、和食が日本の伝統料理としてユネス Fukushima and its aftermath, drawing on a wide range of examples. thus ‘reconstruct’ Japan themselves. After that, Christopher Hood Meiji Jingu Shrine, the annual lecture is a public forum, open to all, コ（国際連合教育科学文化機関）の無形文化遺産に登録された意 We then continued the day with a panel on Reframing Japan in Film (Cardiff) linked the title of the symposium – Gambarou Nippon – aimed at increasing the public knowledge of scholarly works on 義について、社会的文化的側面からお話しされました。これま and Television Drama, with papers by Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt with transportation issues, highlighting how various aircraft carriers Japan. で、ユネスコの無形文化遺産には僅かな伝統料理と一部の料理品 (Nagoya University, Japan), Akiko Nagata (SOAS) and Dolores P. as well as train companies carried it ‘to the world’ and around Professor Bestor’s lecture examined the social and cultural 目のみが、ユネスコに登録されてきましたが、日本政府と各界を Martinez (Oxford/SOAS). Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt talked about the country. Finally, Yohei Koyama (SOAS) gave insight into how significance of UNESCO’s adding washoku, traditional Japanese リードする板前、その他の関係者は、日本料理が無形文化遺産の how in Sono Shion’s film The Land of Hope actually those groups the use of the katakana syllabary for Fukushima in print media cuisine, to the register of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Only リストに登録されるよう、長年に渡って地道な活動を行ってきま most vocal in the fight against radioactivity, women and mothers, (instead of the semantically correct Chinese characters) in Japan a handful of other culinary traditions or singular dishes have した。ベストー教授は、和食とは何かという日本国内での自らへ are rendered voiceless and without agency. leads to a similar re-evaluation of the event as such, similar to the previously received such recognition from UNESCO, and the の問いと、国外ではユネスコの承認を得ることで、和食の国際的 use of katakana for 認知度を上げるという余念のない集団的努力があったとし、それ Akiko Nagata’s talk Hiroshima to make は日本の伝統料理がグローバルな意味でその頂点を極めたという dealt with the changing a distinction from ことを物語っていると述べました。 representation of family the event to the city/ in the aftermath of 3/11, region. ベストー教授のご講演は、永久保存版のオーディオポッドキャス using the most successful トになっており、JRCのウェブサイト(www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/)に drama of 2011, Kaseifu no In the wrap-up て、どなたでもお気軽に視聴頂くことができます。 Mita (Our Housekeeper session, all papers Mita) as example how were discussed and ‘family values’ on the small linked up with each screen seemed to echo the other as in spite of ideology of kizuna (bonds) outwardly looking that was propagated in completely different, Japan post 3/11. Dolores they all had a similar Martinez talked about how core assumption, the film Fish Story that namely that Japan imagines a major disaster, From left to right: Akiko NAGATA, Yohei KOYAMA, Christopher HOOD, Kyoko IWAKI, had somehow did not resonate well with Kristina IWATA-WEICKGENANNT, Pablo FIGUEROA, Barbara GEILHORN, Griseldis KIRSCH, changed. This lead to the the audiences. Dolores P. MARTINEZ, Koichi IWABUCHI.. Picture taken by Laura LOPEZ AIRA. conclusion that we (as academics, foreigners, After a break, the or Japanese) continue to symposium reconvened ‘assemble’ Japan by various with a panel on theatre and photography – Kyoko Iwaki (Goldsmiths actors around the world, and that indeed, the discourses on Japan College) talked about Takayama Akira’s theatre in the aftermath of had changed since this pivotal event. All in all, the symposium has Japanese government as well as prominent chefs and others had Fukushima and how it changed perfomances. Barbara Geilhorn been a great success and I would like to thank the Great Britain pursued a long campaign to ensure that Japanese cuisine would be (Waseda University) gave insight into how post-Fukushima Theatre Sasakawa Foundation for their generous support. A publication of included on this list. Bestor argued that the domestic conceptions of California Press, 2004; published in Japanese in 2007) is an could offer alternative readings for Japanese society, challenging the papers is planned for a special issue in 2015/16. of what constitutes washoku, as well as the concerted efforts ethnographic study of Tokyo’s vast Tsukiji wholesale market, the the dominant narratives. Pablo Figueroa (Waseda University) gave to promote it on a world stage to gain UNESCO accreditation, world’s largest marketplace for seafood and the center of Japan’s a talk about photography as a means to remember the evacuation signalled that Japan’s culinary tradition had reached the pinnacle of sushi trade. His current research examines the global popularity of zone by – as artists went in after it was cut off and have returned global significance. Japanese food, and the recent UNESCO designation of washoku since to take pictures of scenes frozen in time. (traditional Japanese cuisine) as a Global Cultural Heritage item. Theodore C. Bestor is Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology, and the Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute A audio podcast of Professor Bestor’s lecture is of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. He was President of the permanently archived on the JRC website (www.soas.ac.uk/jrc) Association for Asian Studies from 2012 to 2013. Bestor’s third and freely available to all. book, Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (Univ.

14 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 15 Event Reports The convenors reflect back on events

W.G. Beasley Memorial Lecture Roundtable Lecture and cooking demonstration ‘Bad Practices’ and ‘Fraudulent Means’: Japan and Toshiba International Foundation ‘In Conversation’ Nanban: Japanese Soul Food with Tim Anderson International Debates on Commercial Morality in the Lunches’ 7 OCTOBER 2014

Late 19th – Early 20th Centuries 8 DECEMBER 2014

8 DECEMBER 2014 Tim Anderson, BBC MasterChef winner 2011, renowned This past academic year, with the generosity of the Toshiba chef and food writer provided a live cooking demo at SOAS, University of London on 7 October 2014. Professor Janet Hunter (LSE) gave the 2014 W.G. Beasley Memorial International Foundation the JRC launched an ‘In Conversation’ lunch series for postgraduate students interested in an extended, Lecture to an enthusiastic audience on 8 December 2014. Her Since winning MasterChef, the famous chef, whose food is lecture, entitled ‘‘Bad Practices’ and ‘Fraudulent Means’: Japan and small-group discussion with a noted academic in the field of Japanese Studies. informed by his American heritage and his love for regional International Debates on Commercial Morality in the Late 19th Japanese food, has been cooking street food through a series – Early 20th Centuries’, examined discussions on the morality of of pop up restaurants. business conduct in Japan within a global discourse on commercial We launched the ‘In Conversation’ luncheon series with Professors morality in the late-19th – early 20th centuries, a period during Ted Bestor and Vicky Bestor of the Reischauer Institute for Japanese which Japan became increasingly integrated into international Studies at Harvard University. Over lunch at a local sushiya the commercial transactions. Professors Bestor led an in-depth discussion of doing postgraduate John Beasley field research in Japan, the topic of a book they published in 2007. The W.G. Beasley Memorial Lecture is made possible by the Professor Janet Hunter (LSE) led our second ‘In Conversation’ generous support of the Toshiba International Foundation. It was lunch, and Dr Aaron Moore of Manchester University, and winner of created in 2013 to commemorate the life and writings of SOAS the Leverhulme Prize for 2015-2017, spoke with SOAS postgraduate historian Professor William G Beasley (1919–2006). A leading figure students about doing comparative studies of Japan in East Asian in the development of Japanese Studies in Britain, Professor Beasley was appointed to the post of Lecturer in Far Eastern History at W.G.ビーズリー記念講演は、これまで公益財団法人東芝国際交 SOAS in 1947, and appointed in 1954 to the post of Professor of the 流財団の寛大なるサポートの下、開催されてきました。本講演 History of the Far East. During his tenure at SOAS, Professor Beasley は、2013年にSOASの歴史学者であったウィリアム・G・ビーズリ headed the History and Far East departments and the founding ー名誉教授（1919-2006）を追悼しその功績を称えるために始ま Chair of the Japanese Research Centre (1978-83). りました。故ビーズリー名誉教授はイギリスにおける日本学研究 の権威で、彼は、1947年にSOASの極東歴史研究で教鞭を執った In her Beasley lecture, Professor Hunter explained that this Tim Anderson and Dr Barak Kushner at Nanban: Japanese Soul Food 後、1954年に教授となりました。その間、同名誉教授は、歴史学 discourse included a perceived global hierarchy of standards of 部と極東研究学部の学部長を務めた他、1978年から1983年までジ business morality, a hierarchy in which Japan was regarded as being Anderson was joined in ャパン・リサーチ・センターのセンター長を務めました。 situated right at the bottom. Professor Hunter’s research on this conversation with food topic explores the evolution of this transnational discourse, Japan’s historian Dr Barak Kushner part in it, and the response of Japan’s business and political leaders from the University of to the criticisms levied at their country. Cambridge, author of Slurp! A Social and Culinary History Janet Hunter has written widely on the economics and social of Ramen - Japan’s Favorite development of modern Japan, focussing in particular on the Noodle Soup. development of the female labour market, the textile industry, and the development of communications. Her current research Talking about his forthcoming is focussed on two projects: the economic effects of the Great book Nanban, which focuses Kantō Earthquake of 1923 and on the international discourse on SOAS PhD candidates at the Toshiba Foundation ‘In Conversation’ lunch session on food of southern Japan commercial morality (in conjunction with the Shibusawa Eiichi for the Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture with guest speaker Professor Theodore Bestor on 01/102014 known as soul food, the chef Memorial Foundation). demonstrated a series of dishes from his book. The speakers provided a brief An audio podcast of Janet Hunter’s lecture is contexts. The project has been widely popular and the JRC is history of Japanese food, the permanently archived on the JRC website (www.soas.ac.uk/ pleased to announce that the Toshiba International Foundation has influence of migrants on food jrc/) and freely available to anyone who wishes to listen. agreed to fund it for a second year. in the south and modern Japanese cooking. For further information about how you might participate please contact Ms Nenna Chuku at [email protected] The audience, which consisted of SOAS alumni, had the opportunity to taste the food, courtesy of the School’s contract caterers Elior, during the event. The food included Nagasaki Chanpon, an early version of ramen, which consists of noodles in a pork-chicken-seafood broth with a topping of stir-fried vegetables and shellfish. This dish was originally popular among Chinese immigrants and Japanese workers in Nagasaki at the end of the 19th century.

16 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 17 Event Reports CONNECTING THE JRC The convenors reflect back on events Introducing our social media interns • Ben Montgomery: November 2014 - March 2015 • Yasmin Jayesimi : June 2015 - to date

Annual Tsuda Lecture Documentary screening tour Workshop en was very interested ‘Give me Some Skin’: The Cult of Datsueba in A Home Within Foreign Borders (異境の中の故郷) Economic Stagnation and Deflation: Challenges for and enthusiastic about Medieval Japan 4 MARCH 2015 contributing to SOAS Japan in Comparative Perspective through the social media 25 FEBRUARY 2015 3-4 JULY 2015 B internship program at the Japan In early 2014, SOAS BA Japanese student Thomas Brook Research Centre (JRC). As the was presented with the opportunity to subtitle the Japanese social media intern, he was able The Japan Research Centre’s Annual Tsuda Lecture is sponsored Supported by a JRC Small Grant, the Department of Economics to connect with all students and through the generosity of Ms Kayoko Tsuda whose generosity has documentary film A Home Within Foreign Borders, or 異境の中の故 hosted a workshop on ‘Economic Stagnation and Deflation: 郷. The film follows Levy Hideo, the first Westerner to write novels members of the public who are supported a series of annual lectures and PhD student bursaries for Challenges for Japan in Comparative Perspective’ at SOAS on 3-4 passionate about Japan. Promoting the past decade. in Japanese, on a journey to the Taiwanese city of Taichung where July. With contributions from senior scholars and officials from he lived as a child. Director Keiko Ōkawa’s documentary captures the extensive research and events Japan and Europe, the workshop analysed the causes of and that the JRC offers on a weekly The 2015-2016 academic year will be the final year of Kayoko’s Levy without reserve as he dares to step into the space he once possible remedies for economic stagnation and deflation in Japan called ‘home’. basis through social media gave a chance to publicize in new generous ten-year gift, and the members of the JRC wish to take from a comparative perspective. forms. The inaugural lectures have provided rich and exciting this opportunity to express their deepest gratitude to Kayoko, and A generous grant from the Great Britain opportunities to meet major academics in the field of Japan her husband Stanley Guy, whose support for this endowment The participants discussed structural issues such as demographics, related studies. continued after Kayoko’s untimely death in Sasakawa Foundation enabled Brook changes in labour markets, the hollowing out of the manufacturing to invite the director, Keiko Okawa, April 2012. sector as well as financial, monetary and exchange rate policies and Ben was studying an MA in Pacific Asian Studies which to the United Kingdom in March their domestic and international effects. The workshop included 2015 for a tour of five universities encompassed a deep analysis of Japanese culture and politics. The 2014 Tsuda Lecture was given by Bernard a keynote speech by Prof Naoyuki Yoshino, the Dean of the Asian For his major module he is writing an essay which views R Faure (Kao Professor of Japanese Religion, and one independent cinema. Brook Development Bank Institute in Tokyo, on ‘Stagnation and deflation and Okawa presented the film, with ‘democratic institutions in Japan’ of which the JRC centres Columbia University). Examining the medieval in Japan and lessons for Europe’, as well as a panel discussion on have aided my work. Studying at SOAS gave him me a unique period in Japan, Faure argued that the period a panel discussion at SOAS, Sheffield, possible policy responses to overcome the problems of stagnation Leeds, Edinburgh, and Manchester, opportunity to develop an understanding of how Japan is saw the emergence of a number of new and deflation in Japan and Europe. viewed internationally. deities that blurred the traditional distinction and finished their tour with a screening between buddhas and kami. One of them was at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse. Keiko Okawa Datsueba, the old hag who takes the clothes Audiences were intrigued by the fact of the dead as they cross into the other world. that Levy, a renowned writer of Japanese novels, was so deeply Through a discussion of that figure, Faure influenced by his early years as a child in in Taiwan. asmin Jayesimi is taking examined how Datsueba defines a new category of deities, the a two years MA program so-called ‘placenta deities,’ as a means to provide a more complex Of his experience in Pacific Asian Studies, vision of premodern Japanese religion. organizing this Y minoring in Japanese project Brook Language. Due to her vast interest Kayoko’s and Stan’s generosity has made writes: ‘Individually in cultural and language exchange, a tremendous difference to the JRC, I have benefitted she would like to further enhance its members and the field of Japanese immensely from my understanding and broaden Studies. Their gift provided ten bursaries being given the my knowledge of the Pacific Asian for SOAS PhD students in Japanese means to organise region by working on a placement Studies as well as funding ten annual and carry out this at the Japan Research Centre/ lectures given by noted scholars in tour. I wrote my Centre for Korean Studies which the field. While we are sad to see this undergraduate she feels will be most beneficial to her cause. Since coming relationship come to an end, we are thesis on Levy’s to SOAS, Yasmin finds it to be a diverse institution with a eternally grateful for the experience, and literature, and it is The workshop was intended as first in a series of regular workshops variety of students of all races, ages, genders and cultures. much better not unlikely that organised by SOAS and partner institutions with the aim of In the pursuit of cultural exchange, she has attended events for it. I will continue to developing an active research group working on challenges facing related to the Pacific Asian region, namely the ‘Korean Novels study his works the Japanese economy. At the end of the workshop, participants on Screen’ whilst also attending Aikido Class on a weekly With this in mind the Steering Committee and I wish to invite you at post-graduate agreed to establish the Japan Economy Network. basis (with the exception of Ramadan month). The ultimate all to the final Tsuda Lecture, which will be given on 24 February level, and even perhaps translate them into English. Being able goal after completing her studies is to attain fluency in the 2015 by Professor Laura Hein (Northwestern), who is also the SOAS to see how audience members reacted to their first encounter Anyone interested in joining the network is encouraged to contact Japanese language and work with the Nigerian Embassy in Centenary Fellow for 2015-2016. We hope you all will join us in with Levy, through this film, has also been particularly revealing. Ulrich Volz (SOAS Department of Economics and JRC) Japan. celebrating the life and generosity of Kayoko Tsuda in this final year Both during the panel discussions/Q&A sessions and through our on [email protected]. of her ten years of support for the JRC. day-to-day activities, I interpreted for Keiko Okawa, and had the opportunity to deepen a personal and professional relationship that, as she is planning to follow Levy to China for her next project, could FIND US ON FACEBOOK 2015－2016年度は、故カヨコ女史の10年来の贈り物である、奨学 well lead to further subtitling work and more screenings.’ 基金を頂ける最後の年度になります。JRCのメンバーはここに改め WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/JAPAN.SOAS てカヨコ女史（故人）に深甚なる感謝の意を表すると共に、彼女 の夫として同女史が2012年4月に早くして亡くなられた後も、引き 続きこの奨学基金のご寄付を継続して下さったスタンレー・ガイ 氏に対し、深くお礼を申し上げたいと思います。

18 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 19 Event Reports Japanese Roof Garden The convenors reflect back on events A place of quiet contemplation and meditation

Symposium Shifting Perspectives on Media and Materials in Early Modern Japan 4-5 JULY 2015

The International Symposium Shifting Perspectives on Media and Materials in Early Modern Japan took place from 4 to 5 July 2015 at SOAS. It was organised by Senior Teaching Fellows in the Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, Radu Leca and Doreen Mueller, guided by Dr Christopher Gerteis, with generous support from the Japan Foundation, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the SOAS Japan Research Centre. The symposium was attended by international scholars and SOAS MA and PhD students.

Panel presenters and discussants from the UK, Japan, US, and Europe shared approaches to interpreting the cultural production of early modern Japan through selected materials and media such as printed books, manuscripts, prints and paintings. Established paradigms, such as elite versus popular, were challenged by he Japanese-inspired roof garden The newly built garden at SOAS, University of London was built during the Japan 2001 Whether in the rain or the sun, the garden T celebrations and was officially has a lot of character. Its character also opened by the sponsor, Mr Haruhisa Handa changes with the time of day and the (Toshu Fukami), an Honorary Fellow of the season, so it is worth a repeat visit! School, on 13 November 2001. It provides an area away from the noise and bustle of Planting has been kept to a minimum, scholars with the practical and critical tools to uncover the field London streets, where visitors can relax and with lemon thyme used in a chequerboard of cultural production of early modern Japan: 1) Primary sources/ meditate. pattern at the north end of the garden and archival research including skills in Japanese palaeography, 2) the climbing wisteria to provide cool shade Rethinking categorisations and taxonomies of research materials, during the summer. The purple flowers of and 3) Building international research networks giving equal the wisteria also provide a splash of colour responsibility to all members. We are confident that this symposium 屋上日本庭園 when they bloom in late spring. Various has inspired both young and experienced researchers, and types of stone are used in the garden: encouraged the creation of new and vibrant research networks. ロンドン大学SOASの屋上日本庭園は、日 a sweeping curve blends the original 本2001記念行事が開催された、2011年の rectangular sandstone with the irregular 11月に公開されました。SOASの名誉フ A small stage can be used for dramatic or green slate; the central area of raked silver 国際シンポジウム「変遷する視点 近世日本研究における電子デ ェローである深見東州氏（本名：半田 musical productions, for tea ceremonies or grey granite chippings has regular slabs ータと史料の可能性について」が、2015年7月4日と5日の二日間 晴久）がスポンサーを務めました。こ displays. Or it can be used simply as seating. of basaltic rock alluding to a bridge over discussing materials that fall outside established genres. There was に渡りSOASで開催されました。 の庭園は、町の喧騒から離れて、静か flowing water; the island stones in the a lively exchange between scholars from various disciplines on な癒しの一時を訪れた人たちに与えて The Brunei Gallery was built in 1995 and gravel areas are Larvikite from Norway; dark the multifaceted nature of the interaction of people and objects, シンポジウムで行われた議論では、史料研究を通して、文化的産 くれます。 has always had a roof garden. Unfortunately grey pebbles from a contrast in colour and including the researcher’s position toward interpreting these 物（ダイナミックな歴史的現実としての史料）をどのように再 the original garden had pools that sprang texture to the formal granite edging and to objects. 考、再構築していくのかということが中心に話し合われました。 a leak and the water had to be drained. the chequerboard planting. そして、どのように今日的見方に影響されないで、現存する歴史 As a result much of the original charm At the heart of the discussion were approaches to reconstructing 的史料を扱っていくことができるのかということについて議論が was lost and the garden fell into disuse. Opening Times and framing cultural production as a dynamic field of concrete なされました。シンポジウムは、現物史料と電子データという二 The garden is dedicated to Forgiveness, In 2000 Mr Handa offered to finance the which is the meaning of the Kanji character creation of a Japanese-style garden and the historical realities through the study of materials, and how to avoid つの史料が、現在を生きる我々と、オリジナル史料を作り出し The garden is open to the public when the engraved on the garden’s granite water designer Peter Swift from Planit EDC Ltd. imposing contemporary views on the interpretation of historical て、世に出回わるようにした当時を生きた人々とを繋ぐ媒体であ Brunei Gallery is open, normally Tuesday basin. was engaged to design and implement a materials. The symposium led to the realisation that materials and り、またその逆も然りであるということを、改めて気付かせてく to Saturday 10.30am to 5pm except when suitable scheme. media connect us to the people that produced and circulated them れる機会となりました。基調講演を行ったピーター・コーニッキ exhibitions are being changed or during Peter Swift, a designer with experience of and vice versa. Keynote speakers Peter Kornicki and Yutaka Yabuta ー名誉教授と薮田貫教授は、あまり人がやりたがらない「手を汚 private functions. considered the pleasures and the challenges of ‘getting one’s hands すような仕事」に対しても喜びを感じ、挑戦し続けることが大切 adapting Japanese garden design principles The new garden was built during the to the British environment and climate, summer of 2001 by Ground Control Ltd., dirty’ and doing the legwork in pursuing archival research. Despite であると考えています。つまり、アーカイブを地道に繙いていく Admission to the garden is free. advances in digitisation technology, the materiality of primary 作業がとても大切であると述べています。どれ程、デジタル化技 conceived the garden as a place of quiet Billericay, Essex with stone supplied by CED contemplation and meditation as well as Ltd, Thurrock, Essex, and was opened as sources requires the researcher to interact with them directly. 術が進歩した現代であっても、一次史料となる原典、現物に、直 www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/roofgarden/ 接、目で見て触れることの大切さが改めて確認されました。 a functional space complementary to the part of the Japan 2001 celebrations. Three key areas were identified as presenting real opportunities for Gallery and its artistic activities. interdisciplinary collaboration and equipping a new generation of

20 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 21 Research Students Students pursuing projects on Japan (Sept 2014 - Aug 2015) www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/research/current-phd-students/

Catherine AMES Eiko GYOGI Radu Alexandru LECA Anna SCHEGOLEVA WOLFSON POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP Demystifying Taishō: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Translation for Intercultural Education in the The Backward Glance: Concepts of ‘outside’ Ghost in Japan: reconstructing horror in Narrative Form and the Politics of Cultural Foreign Language Classroom: A Case Study and ‘other’ in the Japanese spatial imaginary modernity FOR 2015-16 Formation of Elementary and Intermediate Japanese of the seventeenth century SUPERVISOR: DR LUCIA DOLCE SUPERVISOR: DR STEPHEN DODD Students SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR TIMON SCREECH Elesabeth Woolley SUPERVISOR: DR NORIKO IWASAKI Robert SIMPKINS Horses and Sin as Mechanisms of Representation in the Heike Nadeschda BACHEM Laura LÓPEZ AIRA Playing in Kōenji: making street music in a Corpus Imperialism and National Identity in Haruhisa HANDA Narrating the Korean ‘other’ in Tokyo neighbourhood (working title) Postcolonial Japanese and South Korean Calligraphy and Religious Personality in contemporary Japanese TV dramas SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR TREVOR H J MARCHAND Literature Early Modern Japan: Hakuin’s Life and SUPERVISOR: DR GRISELDIS KIRSCH lesabeth Woolley’s research project will examine SUPERVISOR: DR STEPHEN DODD Writings the representation of a variety of tropes throughout Shinya MANO Martyn SMITH SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR TIMON SCREECH pre-modern Japanese War Tales, with emphasis on Lois BARNETT Eisai and the development of Zen-Esoteric Representing Nation in Postwar Japan: Cold the Heike Monogatari corpus. It will place particular An Investigation of Audience Responses To Buddhism War, Consumption and the Mass Media, E Mami HATAYAMA emphasis on textual examples from the Genpei Jōsuiki, and Motivations for the Use of Western- SUPERVISOR: DR LUCIA DOLCE 1952-1972 The Meiji Painter and Lacquer Artist Shibata Engyōbon and Kakuichi versions of the Heike texts. She will Inspired Costume in Japanese Cinema SUPERVISOR: DR CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS Zeshin focus on two mechanisms of representation within these (1923-39) SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR TIMON SCREECH Barbara MICYK texts: the symbolic role of the horse and the role of sin SUPERVISOR: DR ISOLDE STANDISH The supernatural in pre-modern Japanese Ayako SUZUKI and karmic retribution. Using a variety of case studies, her Satomi HORIUCHI illustrated fiction The dynamics of Japanese identity amongst project will investigate the interpretation of the horse as a Lawrence CARTER Contemporary Japanese Christianity: SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR ANDREW GERSTLE Japanese young migrants in Dublin sub-textual mechanism used to represent transfers of power Going Global: Studio Ghibli and the Ancestors, rites and graves SUPERVISOR: DR DOLORES MARTINEZ and state within the diegesis. She will also consider how sin, Popularisation of a Global Genre SUPERVISOR: DR LUCIA DOLCE Forum MITHANI and accusations of sin, have been used as rhetorical tools of SUPERVISOR: DR ISOLDE STANDISH Challenging the Two-Parent Norm? Single Michiko SUZUKI Noriko HORSLEY Mothers in Japanese Visual Media History of Disaster, Recovery, and condemnation and audience manipulation, creating deep- rooted perceptions of historical figures, which are echoed in Emily CHAPMAN Court Patronage and the Collecting of Art in SUPERVISOR: DR GRISELDIS KIRSCH Humanitarianism: The Japanese Red Cross later historical narratives and which endure to this day. The Gender and Family in Postwar Japan 12th century Insei-period Japan Society in Interwar and Wartime Japan, SUPERVISOR: DR CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR TIMON SCREECH Kanako MIYABAYASHI 1931-1945 study will be supplemented with segments she has translated Corrective feedback in the teaching of SUPERVISOR: DR CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS from the Genpei Jōsuiki text, and with detailed examination Anlan CHEN Wonwoong JEONG Japanese case particles and analysis of contemporary scholarly views in both English How should Chinese Enterprises Respond The Dissolution of a Cold War Alignment: SUPERVISOR: DR BARBARA PIZZICONI Nobuaki TAKASE and Japanese. to the Issue of Rising Labour Costs Caused Korean-Japanese Relations, 1969-1979 Mutsu Munemitsu and British Influence on by Demographic Transition? A comparative SUPERVISOR: DR CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS Yaara MORRIS Japanese Modern Nation Building in the Elesabth says: “ I am really happy to have the chance to analysis between Japan and China from the The Cult of Tenkawa Benzaiten – her rituals, Nineteenth Century return to SOAS and study under the support of the Wolfson perspective of firm strategy Yuko KAMEDA texts, and mandalas SUPERVISOR: DR CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS Scholarship. I love London and thoroughly enjoyed my SUPERVISORS: DR DAMIAN TOBIN & DR HELEN Japan as Multi-ethnic Nation: Exploring SUPERVISOR: DR LUCIA DOLCE experience as a SOAS Masters Student. I’m looking forward MACNAUGHTAN the Iconography of Ethnic Minorities in Jeremy TAYLOR to beginning my PhD in Japanese Studies and am extremely Contemporary Japan Doreen MUELLER “Japan is back.” Japan’s (re)engagement in grateful to the Wolfson Foundation for making it possible Jennifer COATES SUPERVISOR: DR GRISELDIS KIRSCH Documenting Disaster: Pictorial Records Africa: The Case of South Sudan for me to continue my studies. I hope to build on this National Crisis and the Female Image: SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR TIMON SCREECH SUPERVISORS: DR PHIL CLARK & DR YUKA opportunity in order to pursue a career in academia.” Expressions of Trauma in Japanese Film Masato KATO KOBAYASHI 1945-1964 Japanese New Religious Movements in the Akiko NAGATA SUPERVISOR: DR ISOLDE STANDISH UK: The Negotiation between Nationalism An Analysis of Family and Gender Roles in Terumi TOYAMA and Universalism Japanese Television Drama The Replication of Sacred Spaces in Edo Kerstin FOOKEN SUPERVISOR: DR LUCIA DOLCE SUPERVISOR: DR GRISELDIS KIRSCH SUPERVISORS: PROFESSOR TIMON SCREECH & DR COSIMO ZENE Japanese Cinema in Times of profound socio-economic Change: The Image of Kanji KITAMURA Lesley PULLEN Shino TOYOSHIMA the Modern Girl in the visual Culture of Toward a theory of cultural untranslatability The Representation of Textiles on Javanese Making Kunsan Home: Community Building interwar Japan with application to Japanese, UK and USA Sculpture: 9th to 14th century by Japanese Settlers in Colonial Korea SUPERVISOR: DR ISOLDE STANDISH cross-cultural business management and SUPERVISORS: PROFESSOR ELIZABETH MOORE, DR STACEY PIERSON & PROFESSOR TIMON SUPERVISOR: DR ANGUS LOCKYER beyond (working title) Federica GIGANTE SUPERVISOR: DR HELEN MACNAUGHTAN SCREECH Michael WALSH The Reception of Islamic Art in Bologna, “Security Facts: A New Framework for Ferrara and Padua in the Sixteenth and Yohei KOYAMA Ivan RUMANEK Analysis” Life with radiation: ethnography of the The role of Noh in the genesis of kabuki -- Seventeenth Centuries SUPERVISORS: PROFESSOR STEPHEN CHAN, OBE SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR ANNA CONTADINI etymology of genre nuclear disaster in Fukushima & DR FELIX BERENSKOETTER SUPERVISOR: DR GRISELDIS KIRSCH SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR ANDREW GERSTLE Irene GONZALEZ LOPEZ John RICHARDS Tomoko YAGI Prostitution in Postwar Japanese Cinema Herby LAI British Enterprise in Japan, 1945-1990 Provincializing language in the translation SUPERVISOR: DR ISOLDE STANDISH Chinese student migrants in Japan: SUPERVISOR: DR ANGUS LOCKYER of Bashô’s haiku; a case study of ‘furuike ya’, cosmopolitanism, quality and individualism ‘The old pond’ (working title) SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR ANDREW GERSTLE SUPERVISOR: DR LOLA MARTINEZ

22 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 23 SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan High quality, peer-reviewed research on Japan and its history, politics and culture Japan Forum Mini-Special Issue: Beyond Fukushima: Culture, Japan Forum at SOAS Media, and Meaning from Catastrophe Guest Editor: Jonathan E. Abel Official journal of the British Association Introduction: the measuresfor of waves Japanese Studies Jonathan E. Abel Narratives of collapse and generation: Komatsu Sakyo-’s disaster novels and the Metabolist movement William O. Gardner From mourning to allegory: Post-3.11 Space Battleship Yamato in motion 2014-2015 PUBLICATIONS Ikuho Amano Volume Narrating the cultural trauma of 3/11: the debris of post-Fukushima literature and film The SOAS Studies in Modern and Rachel DiNitto 26 The end of literature and the beginning of praxis: Wago- Ryo-ichi’s Contemporary Japan series features new Pebbles of Poetry Number Takushi Odagiri The China Problem in Postwar Japan research monographs as well as translations of apan Forum is the official journal of the Perspectives British Association Japanese political studies: where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? By: Robert Hoppens (University of Texas 3 Volume 26 Number 3 of Japanese Studies and the leading European T.J. Pempel and Michio journal Muramatsu in

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RJFO_26_03_cover.indd 1 Trim 189X246mm 7/9/14 9:03 AM Following our successful bid, in September 2014 the SOAS Japan SOASの日本近現代研究シリーズ Forum team - Dr. Stephen Dodd, Dr. Christopher Gerteis, Dr. Griseldis Kirsch and Dr. Helen Macnaughtan - started their editorial 『ジャパン・フォーラム』 SOASの日本近現代研究シリーズでは、新しい研究 tenure with Emily Chapman, a PhD Student in the Department of 論文の発表やこれまで英語になっていない学術論 History, as Managing Editor. As we approach the end of our first 『ジャパン・フォーラム』は、英国日本研究会のオフィシャ 文などの翻訳活動を行っています。私たちの目標 year at the helm, this newsletter is a great chance to reflect on the ル学術雑誌で、日本学研究に関する学際的な専門雑誌として Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations は、日本の歴史や政治、文化に関する優れた論 months’ past. は、ヨーロッパの学術界では屈指のものとなっています。落札 on Screen: A History, 1989-2005 文、更に審査をパスした学術論文等を活字化する の結果、『ジャパン・フォーラム』の4人の編集メンバーであ By: Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS, University of ことです。詳細はこちら：www.bloomsbury.com/ The strength of the Journal in theory and in practice is る、Dr スティーブン・ドッドとDr クリストファー・ガータイ London) soasstudies/ undoubtedly its multidisciplinary nature and the rate and quality ス、Dr グリゼルディス・キルシュとDr ヘレン・マクノートン of submissions assures us the Field is thriving. We have welcomed は、編集長のエミリー・チャップマンさん（SOAS博士課程学 Covering the years from 1989 to 2005, submissions from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences 生・史学専攻）と共に、2014年9月に当該期間の編集作業をス this book looks at Sino-Japanese EDITORIAL Team from both younger researchers as well as established scholars. タートさせました。 relations through film and television This past year, Japan Forum has devoted its pages to subjects as drama in the crucial time of China’s SERIES EDITOR: Christopher Gerteis diverse as “Otaku tourism and the anime pilgrimage phenomenon 本学術雑誌の強みは何と言っても、その理論と実践的側面にお ascent to an economic superpower (SOAS, University of London) in Japan,” (Okamoto Takeshi, December 2014), “Re-animating ける学際性にあります。また、論文の応募率とその質の高さに in opposition to Japan’s own ailing a radioactive landscape: informal life politics in the wake of the 鑑みて、内容が非常に豊かなものになっていると言えます。私 economy. It provides an overview of EDITORIAL BOARD: Fukushima nuclear disaster” (Tessa Morris-Suzuki, June 2015) and たちは芸術、人文学、社会科学などの様々な分野の論文を募集 how Japan views China through its Stephen Dodd (SOAS, University of London) “Uneven space of everyday modernity: the colonial logic of the しています。そして、若い研究者や優れた学者の如何を問わ visual media, offers explanations as Andrew Gerstle (SOAS, University of London) suburb in Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s A Fool’s Love” (Kota Inoue, March ず、多くの研究者の皆様のご応募をお待ちしています。 to how oppositions between the two Janet Hunter (London School of Economics) 2015). countries came to exist, and how and Helen Macnaughtan (SOAS, University of London) why certain myths about China have Timon Screech (SOAS, University of London) The vibrancy of submissions trickles into our format and in been conveyed. Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck, University of London) addition to full-length standalone articles we also feature Special Issues as well as State of the Field reflections such as Joy Hendry’s fascinating essay on “The state of anthropology in and of Japan” Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th- We welcome proposals for new books in the series. (June 2015). Century Japan If you would like to discuss contributing, please get By: The Asahi Shimbun Company in touch with the series editor at [email protected] Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th- If you are interested in submitting to Japan Forum, our Century Japan investigates the role For more information: Instructions for Authors can be found in detail on the T&F played by the Asahi Newspaper, one www.bloomsbury.com/soasstudies/ website, but in brief, we ask that manuscripts are submitted of Japan’s largest daily newspapers, as in English, are no longer 10,000 words (inclusive of footnotes a mediator of information and power and references), cite both primary and secondary Japanese- during the 20th century, explores the Supported by language sources use the Harvard Referencing style. relationship between media and society during the postwar era Please contact our Managing Editor with any questions, and into the 21st century. comments or feedback [email protected]

www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/publications/japan-forum/ From left: Kristen Purcell, Griseldis, Helen, Christopher, Emily and Steve)

24 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 25 Honorary Appointments Visiting Scholars and Resesearch Associates: Sept 2014 - Aug 2015

PROFESSORIAL RESEARCH RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Princess Akiko of MIKASA POST DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE Dr Eriko MOTOMORI ASSOCIATE Oxford University Dr Eriko TOMIZAWA-KAY Meiji Gakuin University Dr Oleg BENESCH Research: Japanese art; western collections Research: Japanese Modern Art History, 1 April 2015 - 31 March 2016 University of York of Japanese art in the west particularly 20th century paintings Research: Historical sociology of childhood Professor Gina BARNES in modern Japan SOAS, University of London Research: Early Modern and Modern 14 May 2013 - 13 May 2015 Dr Rajyashree PANDEY [email protected] Research: State formation; agricultural Japanese intellectual, cultural, and social [email protected] Goldsmiths, University of London transition; urganisation; landscape history. History of Japan and China in Research: Medieval Japanese literature and archaeology; East Asian archaeology transnational and comparative contexts Buddhism Prof Yukiko NAGANO especially Japanese archaeology and [email protected] [email protected] Senshu University prehistory/photohistory VISITING SCHOLARS 1 April 2015 - 31 March 2016 [email protected] Mr Timothy CLARK Dr Jonathan SERVICE Research: Rural sociology. Comparative British Museum Professor Masayuki ITO Research: History of music theory; Family Study: Japanese Rural Families and Professor Neil JACKSON Research: Japanese pictorial arts of the Aichi Gakuin University structures of perception and changes in Communities (ie and mura). Comparative University of Liverpool early modern and modern periods Date of appointment: 1 April 2014 - 31 mentalité in Japan Study of Japanese and Balinese Rural Research: C19 and C20 Architecture [email protected] March 2015 [email protected] Societies, Families and Communities of a [email protected] Research: Contemporary spirituality (e.g. Variety of Ethnicities in Asian States Dr Penelope FRANCKS yoga and meditation) in Japan and the UK Dr Lone TAKEUCHI [email protected] Professor Peter KORNICKI University of Leeds Research: History of ideas in Early-Mid University of Cambridge Research: Japanese economic history, Dr Kentaro KOBAYASHI Heian Period Dr Eunjee PARK Research: Cultural history of Japan before especially rural economic development Meisei University and the history of consumption and the [email protected] Kagawa University 1900, with special interests on the history 1 April 2014 - 31 March 2015 1 April 2014 - 31 March 2015 of the book in East Asia (Korea and Vietnam consumer Research: Urban and regional economics Dr Sarah TEASLEY Research: The study of environmental as well as Japan), women’s education and [email protected] Royal College of Art accounting. The study of corporate social literacy, and the history of medicine and of Dr Rinko MANABE Research: History of design and built responsibility cartography Dr Christine GUTH Chuo University space in modern Japan, with an emphasis [email protected] Royal College of Art 1 April 2015 - 31 March 2016 on media, technology and institutional Professor Shinichi SHIRATO Research: Japanese art and design history Research: Sociology of education, gender formation; design and architectural theory; Meiji University Professor Ian NISH collecting and collections; productions and and education, career education gender and design; the history of new 1 April 2014 - 31 March 2016 London School of Economics consumption across cultures [email protected] materials research and application Research: Comparative study about the role Research: International history of northeast [email protected] [email protected] of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry asian in 19th and 20th centuries Dr Noriko MATSUMOTO (CCI) in the regional economy; comparative Dr Monika HINKEL 1 April 2014 - 31 March 2015 Dr Ellis TINIOS study about the distribution policy related to Professor Naoko SHIMAZU SOAS, University of London Research: Research about Nonprofit University of Leeds city planning and management Birkbeck, University of London Research: Woodblock prints of the Meiji era, Management and Social Enterprise Research: The illustrated woodblock- [email protected] Research: Political, social and cultural especially the print artist Toyohara Kunichika printed book in the Edo period; representing history of modern Japan, and Japan in the [email protected] Professor Tomoko MORITA China in Edo-period books and prints; the wider world Chubu University actor prints of Kunisada [email protected] Dr David W HUGHES 1 August 2014 - 31 July 2015 [email protected] SOAS, University of London Research: Japanese diplomatic history Professor Evgeny STEINER Research: Ethnomusicology; music of in 19th century, especially treaty ports, Dr Carla TRONU Research: Muromachi epoch arts (especially East Asia especially Japan; Japanese folk extraterritoriality, international law, consular Autonomous University of Madrid Ikkyu and his circle); Ukiyo-e prints; history and theatre music; music and linguistics; courts and immigration Research: History of Japan (early modern) of Western collections of Japanese arts Indonesian gamelan and Javanese street and Japanese religions; production of [email protected] music [email protected] sacred space in Japanese cities; history of Christian missions in Asia; history of Professor Yuriko TAKAHASHI Nagasaka, Macao and Goa Research: Classical Chinese philology and Dr Olga KHOMENKO [email protected] phonology (Shuowen Jiezi focusing on Research: Post war Japanese History of the process of annotation by Duan Yucai Advertisement & consumerism in Japan Dr Stephen TURNBULL and computerization of the Xu Yuan’s Text) [email protected] Akita International University and modern Chinese literature (Lao She Research: Japanese history and religion focusing on his Christian background) Dr Barak KUSHNER [email protected] [email protected] University of Cambridge Research: History of Japanese propaganda, Sino-Japan relations, comedy, and food Dr Akiko YANO history Research: Early modern Japanese art [email protected] and culture [email protected]

26 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 27 Honorary Appointments Highlights from our Visiting Scholars and (Professorial) Resesearch Associates

Gina BARNES Oleg BENESCH Penelope FRANCKS Christine GUTH Monika HINKEL Professorial Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate

The last three years Barnes, Gina. “JADE: its tectonic formation, Oleg Benesch’s Over the course Since January In November 2014 have seen intensive geochemistry, and archaeology in East 2014-15 academic of the year, Penny Christine Guth Monika Hinkel gave a re-writing of Gina Asia – in reverse order”, lecture script for year began with Francks completed has been pursuing lecture on Japanese Barnes 1993/1999 Harrow & Hillingdon Geological Society; the publication of the substantially research on materials, art for the European publication, now pdf available at http://www.hhgs.org.uk/ his book, Inventing revised and rewritten making and meaning Union Executive newly published as monthly_meetings/previous_meetings/ the Way of the third edition of in early modern Training Programme the Archaeology previous_meetings.htm, 2015 Samurai: Nationalism, her textbook, Japan. In March she (ETP) at SOAS. of East Asia. This Internationalism, and Japanese Economic spoke on “Models, is widely used as a Ryan, Joseph and Gina Barnes. “Armor in Bushido in Modern Development, which Modelling and Over the past textbook in university Japan and Korea”, pp. 1-16 in 2015 ad- Japan in September was published in June. Knowledge Transfer academic year courses on early East Asia. The new edition ditions to Encyclopaedia of the History 2014. In the autumn, he gave talks related to Her paper on kimono fashion appeared in in Early Modern Crafts” to the materials Monika taught a variety of courses at Morley is twice as long as the former and includes of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the book at institutions including the SOAS Fashion Theory and a longstanding project studies group at the Max Planck Institute, College on Japanese painting and ceramics, up-to-date information in archaeological Non-Western cultures, Springerlink. Ar- JRC, the University of Cambridge, and the on rice, in which she had participated, Berlin. In the Autumn term of 2015, she will Major themes in Japanese art and Nanban sciences as well as excavation results. ticle ID: 395008, Chapter ID: 395008; DOI University of Alaska Fairbanks. finally resulted in the publication of its develop this research further as a fellow at art. Continuing her interests in Japanese 10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10234-1 collected volume. She is now launching the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton. geology, she attended a 3-week geology [http://link.springer.com/referenceworken- January 2015 started with the appearance into a new project to produce a short book In May 2015 she contributed two lectures to fieldtrip to New Zealand in November 2014, try/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10234-1], of Oleg’s article “The Samurai Next Door”, for Palgrave Macmillan to serve as a guide the V&A year course ‘Art and the City’ with taking in the volcanics and earthquake 2015. which examines the complex history of to Japan and the Great Divergence. No PUBLICATIONS the topics ‘Floating world: Edo’ and ‘Edo: activities of the islands and comparative bushido discourses in modern China. exciting trips abroad or whatever, but that’s Craft and Design’. jade resources – the latter important for Barnes, Gina. “Vulnerable Japan: the This article is one of a series of ongoing the way she likes it these days! Guth, Christine; Hokusai’s Great Wave: lecturing on jade to geological societies volcanic setting of life in the archipelago”, projects on the broader history of bushido. Biography of a Global Icon. January 2015. In June 2015 Monika was invited by the (Harrow & Hillingdon GS, 14 jan 2015). pp. 21-42 in Environment and Society in the Oleg presented a related paper, which University Of Hawai’i Press Chester Beatty Library in Dublin to give a Gina serves on the Editorial Boards for Asian Japanese Islands, ed. by Philip Brown and reevaluates the relationship between Zen PUBLICATIONS lecture as part of the events programme for Perspectives and Japan Review and is an Bruce Batten. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State and the samurai, at the Association of the ‘Seven Treasures: Japanese Cloisonne Advisory Editor for the Japanese Journal of University Press, 2015. Asian Studies annual meeting in Chicago in Francks, Penelope, Japanese Economic Enamels from the Victoria and Albert Archaeology. She also teaches in the SOAS March. Development, 3rd ed. London: Routledge, Museum’ exhibition. The title of her talk was Diploma course Arts of Asia: Korea and Barnes, Gina. “A hypothesis for Early Kofun 2015 ‘Visualising Change: Japanese Woodblock Japan. rulership”, Japan Review 27: 3-29, 2014. In the Spring of 2015, Oleg spent six weeks Prints of the Meiji Era (1868-1912)’. in Japan conducting research with the Francks, Penelope, ‘Was fashion a European Barnes, Gina. “Complex society in Korea generous support of the Japan Foundation invention? The kimono and economic PUBLICATIONS and Japan”, pp. 833-851 in The Cambridge Endowment Committee and the Great development in Japan’. Fashion Theory World Prehistory, vol. 2: East Asia and the Britain Sasakawa Foundation. This research 19:3 (June 2015) Barnes, Gina. Archaeology of East Asia: Americas, ed. by C. Renfrew and P. Bahn. trip focused on gathering materials for an the rise of civilization in China, Korea and Cambridge University Press, 2014. ongoing research project titled ‘Citadels Francks, Penelope, ‘Rice and the path of Japan. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015. of Modernity: Reclaiming the Past and economic development in Japan’ in F. Bray, Barnes, Gina. Review of Japanese Proclaiming the Future through Japan’s P. Coclanis, E. Fields-Black and D. Schafer, historiography and the gold seal of 57 C.E.: Castles’. eds., Rice: Global Networks and New relic, text, object, fake, by Joshua A. Fogel. Histories. New York: Cambridge U.P., 2015 Monumenta Nipponica 69.1: 103-108, 2014. For more information on these and other activities, please see Oleg’s website: olegbenesch.com

PUBLICATIONS

Benesch, Oleg. Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Benesch, Oleg. “The Samurai Next Door: Chinese Examinations of the Japanese Martial Spirit,” Extrême-Orient Extrême- Occident No. 38 (Jan. 2015). pp. 129-168.

28 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 29 Honorary Appointments Highlights from our Visiting Scholars and (Professorial) Resesearch Associates

David W. HUGHES Peter KORNICKI Research Associate Research Associate

Being retired but not David also had the pleasure of organising In October 2014 Peter tired, David Hughes two Satsuma-biwa concerts and a SOAS Kornicki retired from main activities this Summer School of Japanese Buddhist the professorship year (aside from chant, all featuring Ueda Junko. of Japanese at occasional lectures, Cambridge and PhD supervising/ consequently now examining, etc) have PUBLICATIONS have more time to get involved performance. on with his research! For the SOAS Min’yō Hughes, David. “Japan”. Chapter 3 (pp. In autumn 2014 Group (Japanese 74-103) in Michael Church (ed.) The other Peter gave the Carmen Blacker Lecture folk songs), this meant: saké-related songs classical musics: fifteen Great Traditions. in Norwich and in London - the subject for saké events at the Japan Embassy and Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2015. was the role of Tsushima as a conduit Japan Foundation; a concert to celebrate of information and goods from Korea to Beatrice Shoemaker, Kansai, Japan re-launching Durham’s Japanese Studies Japan. In December Peter lectured in Berlin BA; Hyper Japan; two events celebrating and in March 2015 he spent a week at Yale Satsuma 150 (we did a song & dance from as the Edwin McLellan Visiting Professor and Kagoshima); and music for the play “Yama: gave the keynote address at the ‘Treasures Tales of Shōnai”. The London Okinawa from Japan’ conference held there. In Naoko SHIMAZU Evgeny STEINER Sanshinkai performed at the Japan Matsuri, May he ran a workshop on how to read Professorial Research Associate Research Associate Japan Speech Contest, EU-Ryukyukan Edo-period books and documents at the International Open Karate Tournament, University of Warsaw, in June Peter lectured Brighton & Hove Japan Club – and on at Tôhoku University and in August he gave In the academic year 2014-15, Naoko has Evgeny Steiner “Unending Ripples from The Big Wave: Okinawa’s RBC-TV via internet on the the keynote address at a conference at the been on leave from Birkbeck University of presented the Japonisme and Russian Art Nouveau.” The annual Sanshin Day. The longstanding National Institute of Japanese Literature in London. In November 2014, she was invited following papers Ryabushinsky mansion (The Gorky Memorial SOAS Noh Group has now merged into Tokyo. to participate in the plenary panel on “The during the last Museum, part of The Institute of World Future of History’ held to commemorate academic year: Literature, The Academy of Sciences), 16 the tenth anniversary of the establishment May, 2015, Moscow. PUBLICATIONS of the Department of History at Goldsmith “Between Glorification College. She is spending six months from and Discontent: In July Evgeny taught courses on Japanese Kornicki, Peter. ‘The vernacularization January to June 2015 as a Fernand Braudel Vereshchagin’s culture at The Second European Summer of Buddhist texts: from the Tangut Senior Fellow at the European University Orientalism,” a paper at the 103d College School of Oriental Studies in Malta. empire to Japan’, in Benjamin A. Elman, Institute (EUI) in Florence, to work on Art Association Conference, 11-14 February, ed., Rethinking East Asian languages, her research monograph, Diplomacy as 2015, New York. (It was about a peculiar vernaculars, and literacies, 1000-1919 (Brill: Theatre: The Bandung Conference and the kind of Orientalism represented by an artist PUBLICATIONS Leiden, 2014), pp. 29-57. Making of the Third World. In February 2015, Vassily Vereshchagin who fell in action in she was invited to present her current major Japan in the Russo-Japanese war. “No Longer Magic, but Even More Kornicki, Peter. ‘From Liuyu yanyi to Rikuyu project on the presidential themed panel Attractive: The Changing Image of Japan in engi taii: turning a vernacular Chinese text to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary “Hokusai, Bumpo, and Mochi,” a paper at Russian Imagination” // Russia and Japan: into a moral textbook in Edo-period Japan’, of the Bandung Conference in 2015, at the 17th International Conference History & Constructing Identity – Imagi(ni)ng the in Matthias Hayek and Annick Horiuchi, the annual conference of the International Culture of Japan, Russian State Univ. for the Other. Ed. Julia Mikhailova. - St. Petersburg: eds, Listen, copy, read: popular learning in Studies Association held in New Orleans. In Humanities. 16-18 February, 2015, Moscow. St. Petersburg Centre for Oriental Studies early modern Japan (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. April, she was invited to give the Marius B. Publishers, 2014, pp. 142-161. 205-225. Jansen Memorial Lecture 2015 at Princeton “Love’s Labor Lost, or the Russian Way from University. April also saw the publication of Japanophiles to Japanophobes,”a paper at “Zen Ladder, or the Steps of Ascension Kornicki, Peter. ‘Chinese Texts in pre- “Views from the Trenches: New Year’s Truce, the IX ICCEES, 3-8 August 2015, Makuhari, to Enlightenment” // Psychotechniques modern East and South-East Asia’, in Bloody Sunday and Japanese Attitudes Japan. and Altered States of Consciousness. - St. Tim Wright, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Toward the 1905 Revolution in Russia,” Petersburg: RCHA, 2015, pp. 234-244. SOAS Min'yō Group at Embassy to celebrate winners in the saké division of the International HORIZONS, 5:2 (2014), which resulted He also delivered two invited lectures: Wine Challenge, 2014. Chinese, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) from the workshop paper she presented at “The Mirror Images: On Soviet-Western the Seoul National University in July 2014. “Zen Mind: Where does Meditation and Reflections in Children’s Books of the 1920- the University of London Noh Society (with From January 2015, Naoko has joined Other Exertion of One’s Consciousness 30s” // Children’s Literature and European Royal Holloway, U. London) to promote the International Advisory Board of The Lead.” The Methodological Seminar on Avant-Garde. Ed. B. Cummerling-Meibauer. teaching Noh performance. All three of Historical Journal for five years to expand Oriental Studies, The School of Asian – Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2015, pp. these groups welcome new members (write the journal’s publication of non-Western Studies, National Research University Higher 189-214. to [email protected]). histories. School of Economics. Moscow, 24 March, 2015.

30 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 31 Honorary Appointments Highlights from our Visiting Scholars and (Professorial) Resesearch Associates

Lone TAKEUCHI Ellis TINIOS Carla TRONU Research Associate Research Associate Research Associate

Lone Takeuchi is The past year In the fall term Carla finishing a short Ellis Tinios was Tronu was still a monograph entitled, occupied with JSPS Postdoctoral Kings and the king- leading workshops Researcher at Tenri like: some tenth and seminars at University, where century kanabun as various venues she co-organized religious literature. and with lecturing. the ‘Tenri Kirishitan The central chapters Ellis delivered the Workshop’ (11-12 present analyses keynote address October 2014) with and interpretations at the meeting of Prof Higashibaba Ikuo. She gave research of Book XIX–XX of Kokinshu and of International Ukiyo-e Society in Tokyo seminars in Japanese on various topics Utsuho monogatari as esoteric Buddhist in November 2014. His lecture title was related to her research on sacred space Daniel Arrowsmith, 'For a Peaceful World' soteriological procedures. “Greater than Utamaro: the Fame of in early modern Nagasaki at several Calligrapher, Hiroshima, Japan Kunisada”. institutions: the Japanese Association of Religious Studies (13-14 September), the In February 2015, he ran a two-day book Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (14 workshop at the University of Southern November), the Association for Kirishitan California in Los Angeles on the art of the Studies (15 November), the Tenri University Stephen TURNBULL Akiko YANO book. That was followed, in March 2015, Oyasato Intitute for the Study of Religion Research Associate Research Associate by a three-day workshop devoted to the (28 November), the Kyoto University bibliography of the Edo-period, offered Association for Christianity and Religious jointly with Laura Moretti at Emmanuel Pluralism in Asia (24 January 2015) and In January 2015 which was published in June 2015. Akiko Yano spent College, Cambridge University. In June the Association for the Study of Popular Stephen Turnbull the year as a Visiting 2015 Ellis ran three book workshops Religion (31 January). was guest lecturer Research Fellow at at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in at Mie University’s PUBLICATIONS the International New York City. They were based on the She is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, Research Center for Vershbow collection recently acquired by ICC, Sophia Univesity (Tokyo) where she where he presented Turnbull, Stephen Japan’s Sexual Gods: Japanese Studies the Museum. Each session was aimed at a gave a public lecture on the connection a paper about his Shrines, Roles and Rituals of Procreation (Nichibunken) in very different constituency: Europeanists between the parish system and the lay ongoing research into and Protection (Japanese Studies Library Kyoto. She gave (curators, librarians, curators); Japan confraternities in early modern Nagasaki Japanese mercenaries Volume 49) Brill, Leiden (2015). two public lectures specialists; and docents. In April he (4 June). During summer she gave in Southeast Asia in the seventeenth for Nichibunken on participated in a one-day Edo publishing presentations in English at international century. His time at Mie also allowed him Turnbull, Stephen ‘The Ninja: An media reactions to the 2013 British Museum workshop in Norwich jointly organised by conferences in Japan, at TUFS (29-31 the opportunity to follow a long-standing Invented Tradition?’ Journal of Global shunga (Japanese erotic art) exhibition, one SISJAC and Chuo University. July) and the Japanese Association for interest in the possible historical origins Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective: in Kyoto (Dec) and one in Tokyo (Feb) at the Renaissance Studies (18-19 July), and in of the popular (and largely spurious) cult Interdisciplinary Reflections on Japan Vol. 9 International House. She was also invited PUBLICATIONS Germany, at the International Association of the ninja. Iga-Ueno City is the centre No. 1, Article 3. Kennesaw State University, to give presentations on the impact of the of the History of Religions (Erfurt 22-29 of the ‘ninja industry’, and Mie University Atlanta, Georgia (2014) same exhibition socially and academically at Ellis Tinios. “Hokuksai and his blockcutters” August), where she organised a panel on the has boldly begun a serious study into the International Ukiyo-e Society (Kokusai in Print Quarterly, Volume XXXII, Number 2 transformations in the historical discourse the phenomenon. Stephen had already ukiyo-e gakkai) conference in Tokyo in (June 2015), pp.186-191. on the Japanese martyrs in Japan, Mexico contributed to the programme with a June and at the conference of the joint and Europe since the 17th century to the highly critical article recently published association of art-related societies of Japan Tinios, Ellis. “Kunisada. El gran maestro” present. by Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, (Geijutsugaku kanren gakkai) in Kyoto. [Kunisada: the Grand Master] in Georgia where he presented his ideas in Fantasía en escena. Kunisada y la escuela PUBLICATIONS 2013. The trip to Mie allowed him to join She is leading a team that is translating the Utagawa [Fantasy on the stage: Kunisada in with their research including making BM exhibition catalogue Shunga: Sex and and the Utagawa school] Madrid. 2014. pp. Tronu, Carla, ‘The rivalry between the the first ever translation into English of Pleasure in Japanese Art (British Museum 59-75. Jesuits and the Mendicant orders in Ninjutsu Ogiden, the last of the so-called Press, 2013) to be published in Japan by Nagasaki at the end of the sixteenth century ‘ninja manuals’ that was produced in about Shogakukan in September 2015. She wrote Tinios, Ellis. “Contexte historique” [Prints in and the beginning of the seventeenth 1800. He also joined them in analysing an article, ‘Nihon no shunga o igirisu wa context] and “La production des estampes century’ in Agora, 11, 2015, pp.25-39 the relationships that existed between the dou mita ka’ on British media responses ukiyo-e” [The production of ukiyo-e prints] Rokkaku family of Ōmi Province and the to the BM shunga exhibition in Bunka in Le geste suspendu: Estampes kabuki トロヌ・カルラ、「近世日本におけるカトリ small independent landowners whose shigengaku, no. 13 (forthcoming July 2015) du Cabinet d’arts graphiques [The Frozen ック小教区制度について」『アジア・キリス activities during the Sengoku Period were edited by Prof. Kinoshita Naoyuki. Gesture: Kabuki prints from the Cabinet ト教・多元性 現代キリスト教思想研究会』 partly responsible for the ninja myth d’arts graphiques] edited by Christian 第13号、2015年、87-99頁 developing. After leaving Mie he visited Rümelin and Hans Bjarne Thomsen. selected sites to put the finishing touches Geneva, 2014. pp. 10-17 and 18-23. to his book about Japan’s sexual shrines,

32 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 33 Kayoko Tsuda Bursary (Japanese Studies) £2 million endowment funds first Numata PhD degrees at SOAS involving any aspect of Japanese Studies Reader in Japanese Buddhism at SOAS

Iris HAUKAMP Eiko GYOGI OAS, University of London has received a further £600,000 realises the Kayoko Tsuda Recipient 2014-2015 Kayoko Tsuda Recipient 2014-2015 gift from Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK) (Society for the vision of BDK FINAL REPORT INTRODUCTORY REPORT Promotion of Buddhism) to secure a long-term endowment to establish KAYOKO TSUDA S for the Numata Readership in Japanese Buddhism. a number of BURSARY permanent Thesis Title Working Title This significant tranche of additional funding brings the total academic posts around A Foreigner’s Dream of Japan: Translation for Intercultural The bursary was donation to over £2 million from BDK, a long standing donor the world. The struggle over power and Education in the Foreign created through the and supporter of Buddhist Studies at SOAS. The donation was authenticity in a German- Language Classroom: A Case generosity of Ms celebrated at a signing ceremony last month where Director of The study Japanese coproduction Study of Elementary and Kayoko Tsuda. SOAS Professor Paul Webley and Dr Lucia Dolce, the first Numata Intermediate Japanese Students Reader in Japanese Buddhism, were joined by Rev. Dr. Toshihide of Japanese Iris would like to express her Numata; Director of BDK Tadashi Ikuta, and Mitutoyo UK and BDK Buddhism sincere gratitude to the JRC and Eiko’s research examines how trustees Takaji Katayama and David Thomson. features at all to the late Mrs Kayako Tsuda translation activities going degree levels for her generosity. The Tsuda bursary 2014/2015 has beyond the consolidation of grammar promote This donation will further enhance the study of Buddhism at at SOAS, BA, supported the final months of writing her thesis and intercultural competence among elementary and SOAS, a leading centre for the study of Buddhism and Japanese MA and PhD. It enabled her to bring the project to an end that she is intermediate learners of Japanese. in Europe. Through the appointment of Dr Lucia Dolce, the is supported by very happy with. academic programme will advance the understanding of Japanese two research Translation has been used in Japanese language Buddhism. Dr Dolce’s current research focuses on ritual landscape Centres: the Her thesis, A Foreigner’s Dream of Japan: The education for a long time, but criticised for of mediaeval Japanese Buddhism. She has published on different Centre for struggle over power and authenticity in a German- over-focus on accuracy without lack of fluency. traditions of Buddhism in Japan, including the Lotus Sutra and the Study of Japanese coproduction, has re-evaluated the However, recent recognition of the importance of the Tendai traditions of interpretation, Nichiren Buddhism, Tantric Japanese Religions, funded in 1999, and the Centre of Buddhist binational film project The Samurai’s Daughter students’ own language has led to a re-evaluation Buddhism, as well as the relationship between Buddhism and Studies, established in 2001. These Centres provide a forum for (Die Tochter des Samurai, 1937, Fanck) and New of translation in the language classroom. Eiko’s Shinto. an intellectual community of SOAS staff and students, academics Earth (Atarashiki tsuchi, 1937, Itami). Iris argued study joins this growing but yet notably lacking field from other institutions as well as Buddhist affiliations, to undertake research activities and outreach through events and newsletters. against previous, predominantly political readings of studies by examining its possible use for much- The 2015-2016 Dr Dolce said: “I am honoured to have been appointed as the first of the project as a piece of political propaganda, needed intercultural education in the lower-level academic year will Numata Reader in Japanese Buddhism. This is the first Numata with a focus on Fanck’s German-Japanese edition, Japanese language classroom. It is a qualitative be the final year of position in Europe dedicated to Japanese Buddhism and it is and their lasting impact on interpretations of the classroom research aiming at having a deep Kayoko’s generous particularly significant that it is held at SOAS – where resources participants. Such approaches, relying on seemingly understanding of students’ learning experiences ten-year gift, and for the study of Japanese Buddhism are unmatched compared to straightforward causal relations, neglect to take through translation activities informed by systemic the members of the anywhere in Europe. 200万の寄付金：日本沼田仏教における初の准教授をSOASが輩出 into consideration the films themselves as well as functional linguistics. In her study, five translation JRC wish to take this Japanese interests in the costly undertaking. In classes were implemented to 14 elementary and opportunity to express “In the UK and Europe, the study of Buddhism has overwhelmingly ロンドン大学SOASは、日本の沼田仏教の読者層を末永く維持する interplay with political currents, the project became intermediate students of Japanese. The data was their deepest gratitude focused on the South Asian and Tibetan traditions. This post will ために、公益財団法人仏教伝道協会より更に60万ポンドのご寄附 the locus of a power struggle over representational collected from various resources for triangulation to Kayoko, and her allow greater visibility to Japanese Buddhism as an important and を頂きました。 authority, and the notion of authenticity of the and analysed using different analysis method, such husband Stanley influential component of the Buddhist world. national image of Japan on international cinema as grounded theory approach, thematic analysis and Guy, whose support このご寄附により、SOASでの仏教研究は更に充実したものとなる screens emerged as a critical key to understanding discourse analysis. The results mainly based on the for this endowment “Buddhism in Japan has taken different forms and has undergone でしょう。実際、SOASはヨーロッパの仏教研究と日本研究をリー the project’s discursive level and as the main factor learning journals, interviews, and tasks before and continued after extraordinary changes throughout its history. To study Japanese ドする研究機関です。Dr ルチア・ドルチェがこの度、准教授に in the two directors’ failed interactions, eventually after the classes suggest that translation activities Kayoko’s untimely Buddhism means not only to bring to life a vast and fascinating 昇進したことにより、この分野における日本仏教への理解を更に resulting in two versions of the film. An overdue draw students’ attention to not only referential death in April 2012. textual and ritual culture, but to open up avenues to reconsider 促進することになるでしょう。Dr ドルチェは、現在、中世日本 comparative textual analysis suggested the necessity meanings but also subjective realities evoked by a range of issues that are relevant to our world, from secularism 仏教の儀礼風土を中心に研究活動を行っています。彼女は、これ to reconsider the films as creative products of a the text and social context of the text. Based on and modernity (and postmodernity) to pluralism and religious までに日本仏教に関する様々な伝統や仕来りを本にまとめてきま representational and aesthetic power struggle, these results, her study aims to provide pedagogical engagement in social and political arenas. I hope that the Numata した。例えば、法華経や天台宗の伝統的慣習の解説や、日蓮宗、 and hence as cultural, rather than purely political implications for the practical applications of endowed post will help develop a new generation of scholars to タントラ仏教（後期密教）についての研究を行ってきました。ま artefacts. translation activities to the Japanese language make a real impact on the understanding of the different strands of た、仏教と神道の違いなどについても書いてきました。 classroom. Buddhist culture.” The JRC’s support and the feeling of obligation Dr ドルチェは次のように述べています。「この度、日本の沼田仏 towards Mrs Tsuda’s generosity gave her a strong SOAS Director Professor Paul Webley said: “Through the creation of 教研究、初の准教授に昇任されたことを大変光栄に思います。私 motivation in the rather difficult final months to this senior academic post, the School is joining a select number of の昇任は、これまで日本の仏教研究に貢献してきたヨーロッパの finish the project. Moreover, the Tsuda lecture leading institutions which have Numata scholars. We are delighted 沼田仏教研究界では、初めてのことになります。また、SOASでそ provided the precious possibility to present my that this endowed post will enable us to continue to advance the のことが実現したことに感慨深いものを覚えます。SOASはヨーロ research to the JRC and to receive valuable study and understanding of Buddhism. SOAS is the world’s leading ッパの他のどの研究機関とも比べ物にならない程、多くの日本仏 feedback. She has now successfully defended my institution for the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East and the 教の研究に関する文献を所有しています。 thesis, and am certain that the positive result was provision of high quality research and teaching in Buddhist Studies also due to the relative peace of mind with which at SOAS has been significantly enhanced by the vision and generous イギリスとヨーロッパでは、圧倒的に南アジアとチベットの仏教 she could approach the crucial final stages of support of BDK over the last two decades.“ 研究が盛んです。今回の昇任によって、これまで以上に日本仏教 writing and editing thanks to the Tsuda bursary. が世界の仏教界において重要かつ影響力のあるものとして、可視 The School has a long-standing relationship with BDK, starting from 化されていくことでしょう。」 the 1990s when the endowment was first established. The post is named after the BDK’s founder, the late Rev. Dr. Yehan Numata, and

34 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 35 From the Library Meiji Jingu Japanese Studies Research Grants One of the world’s most important academic libraries for the study of Asia Research Grants for SOAS staff to promote Japanese studies

2015/2016 RECIPIENT

Name Project Title Amount Awarded Dr Helen Macnaughtan Diversity Management in Japanese companies: constraints, challenges, solutions £1,020

Research Summary: Fieldwork for this project comprised three phases:

The aim of this project is to assess the impact of diversity Phase 1: Case study of regional ‘diversity’ activities in Hokkaido management programmes in Japanese companies over the last (March 2015) OAS Library is one of the world's most important academic The Library has agreed with Brill to cooperate with the Brill Asian decade (2005-2015), and to analyse how ‘diversity’ has been libraries for the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Newspapers project. The Japan Chronicle has been completely defined (and changed over time) within the Human Resource Phase 2: Attendance at Waseda University Diversity Management which attracts scholars from all over the world to conduct digitized. Trans-Pacific (newspaper) and the Japan Times Weekly are Management (HRM) policies of Japanese companies. In doing so I Workshop and 15 interviews with HR/Diversity Managers of S research. The Library houses over 1.2 million volumes at now in the process of digitization. will evaluate the issues and challenges facing diversity management Japanese firms (Tokyo, June/July 2015) the SOAS campus at Russell Square in central London, together in Japanese firms, and assess the ‘match’ between top-down with significant archival holdings, special collections and a growing government policy and bottom-up strategies being implemented at Phase 3: Case study of regional ‘diversity’ activities in Kansai (Spring network of electronic resources. External funding and acquisitions in 2014/15 the corporate level (and at the regional level). 2016)

• As in previous years, the Library has received an annual grant Although there are earlier origins, Japanese companies arguably Write up of the project is ongoing with expected submission SOASライブラリー（大学図書館） (£8,500) from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese only began to actively work on diversity management in the mid- to a journal based in the academic field of Human Resources Arts and Cultures to acquire materials on Japanese art and 2000s. ‘Diversity’ in Japanese companies has been most focused on Management in 2016. SOASの大学図書館は、アフリカやアジア、中東研究において、世 culture. The Library’s acquisitions supported by this include women workers, with attempts to recruit and retain greater levels of 界で屈指の図書館です。本図書館は世界中の研究者を惹き付けて Gunsho Ruijū (see above) and Tōyō Bunko Zenpon Sōsho (12 female employees within corporations. Some Japanese companies Helen is extremely grateful to Meiji Jingu for providing her with the 止まず、これまでに内外の多くの研究者が利用してきました。ロ volumes). can be seen to be diversity champions and have already established funds to carry out phase two of this research. ンドンの中心地、ラッセル・スクエア・キャンパス内にある本大 necessary support systems for female employees. As a result, we 学図書館の所蔵冊数は、120万冊以上にも及びます。また、その他 • Jiyeon Wood (the Art Section)’s grant application for The can now observe some improvements from the perspective of に、貴重なアーカイブ資料や特別コレクション、そして、昨今盛 Metropolitan Centre for Far Eastern Art Studies was successful. corporate diversity. んになりつつあるオンライン資料などもあります。 The Library has received US $3,500 for research materials. However, Japan continues to rank low in global gender equality MEIJI JINGU JAPANESE STUDIES 日本研究に関することでは、SOASライブラリーは、16万もの学術 • The Library has acquired Higashiyama Kaii Zen Sakuhinshū rankings, particularly in terms of social and economic equality, and RESEARCH GRANTS 論文を所蔵しています。また、1,000冊に及ぶ日本語の定期刊行物 (東山魁夷全作品集) on the special fund from an anonymous encouragement of women into corporate positions of leadership. や西洋の言語で書かれた定期雑誌が300冊余り、そして、500を超 alumnus last year. Both international pressure and economic concerns has prompted FOR SOAS STAFF える視聴覚資料を所蔵しています。これらのものは、全て日本学 the current government to focus on female empowerment, 研究分野の教育やリサーチのために使われています。SOAS図書館 • The Library has received resources for Japanese studies advocating ‘Womenomics’ policy. Grants are offered to assist full-time academic の資料検索はこちらから：www.soas.ac.uk/library/ from various institutions and individuals in the UK and Japan staff members of the JRC, SOAS, to promote Japanese Studies. including the Historiographical Institute at the University of The project will assess whether this is a viable policy and to Tokyo, IDE-JETRO, Imperial Household Agency, Kagoshima what extent it matches the needs of corporations and women Funds may be used for personal research, conferences, etc, or Prefecture, Meiji Jingu, National Museum of Ethnology, themselves. The key challenge for Japanese companies is to to purchase research-level books for the SOAS Library. Group Librarian’s Report Okinawa Prefecture, Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation, transform their corporate culture, employees’ mind-set and the projects and Toyo Bunko. working lifestyles of both men and women. I hypothesise that no are acceptable, but should be submitted in the name of one Japanese company has succeeded in this yet, but there are signs representative individual. The Library holds some 160,000 monographs for Japanese studies. Fujiko Kobayashi (Subject Librarian (Japan and Korea), of a corporate endeavour to come up with strategies that seek to In addition, there are over 1,000 Japanese language periodicals, [email protected] redefine Japanese-style HRM as well as possibly challenge western- Further information: some 300 western language periodicals, and over 500 audio-visual based ‘best practice’ diversity management. www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/awards-and-grants materials for teaching and research in Japanese studies; the online www.soas.ac.uk/library/subjects/japkor catalogue is available at www.soas.ac.uk/library Round two will open in Oct 2015

The Library subscribes to major research databases; the list is available at www.soas.ac.uk/library/resources/a-z /. Japan- related databases include Japanese newspapers (Asahi, Nikkei, and Yomiuri), JapanKnowledge, Zassaku Plus, and full-functions of CiNii. New acquisitions in the 2014/15 academic years are Gunsho Ruijū (群書類従), the Japan Chronicle, and Digital National Security Archive (Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part III, 1961-2000). SOAS academics and students have access to full-text journal databases, and external members are welcome to use them in the Library.

36 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 37 Meiji Jingu Japanese Studies Research Scholarships MPhil/PhD programme involving research on Japanese Studies

Elia DAL CORSO Michiko SUZUKI Marcello FRANCIONI Jamie TOKUNO Meiji Jingu Recipient 2014-2015 Meiji Jingu Recipient 2014-2015 Meiji Jingu Recipient 2015-2016 Meiji Jingu Recipient 2015-2016 FINAL REPORT FINAL REPORT INTRODUCTORY REPORT INTRODUCTORY REPORT

Thesis Title Thesis Title Thesis Title Thesis Title Study On Evidential Strategies History of Disaster, Recovery, Onee-kotoba. Language, Translating Ecotourism: MEIJI JINGU In The Sakhalin Dialect Of Ainu and Humanitarianism in Sexuality and Social Change in A Descriptive Corpus- SCHOLARSHIPS And Nivkh Wartime Japan, 1931-1945 contemporary Japan Based Analysis of How 2016-2017 English<>Japanese Translators Elia’s PhD research focuses on Michiko’s project explores the Japanese non-heterosexual Mediate Ideological Differences Two awards are offered the instances of grammatical wartime humanitarian relief men and women, or Japanese in Ecotourist Texts of Japan and to any full-time MPhil/ evidentiality found in Ainu, activities of the Japanese Red sexual minorities, are a clear Anglo-Oceania PhD programme an endangered indigenous Cross Society (JRCS) personnel example of emerging social where the student will language spoken in Northern Japan. In his research between 1931 and 1945, including the Second characters that symbolize the period of cultural This project explores tourist text translation be working on some he uses both a descriptive and a comparative Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Pacific change contemporary Japan is going through, through the lens of ecotourism ideology within aspect of Japanese approach. He intends to give the first general cross- War (1941-1945). It focuses on their visits to POW mining the long-promoted myth of a socially the context of Japanese translation studies. It Studies. dialectal account on Ainu evidentials that considers camps, their treatment of refugees – civilians and homogenous nation of salary-men and housewives. expands upon previous research findings that argue both the Hokkaidō variant and the Sakhalin variant diplomats of hostile nations, and their humanitarian “Kamizono” is a Using onee-kotoba (or ‘big sister talk’) as a case for the effectiveness of a target culture norms- Scholarships are for of the language, and he speculates what instances operations in the battlefields overseas and air research journal study, Marcello will analyse the linguistic and social oriented approach to the translation of tourist texts. one year only, but it of language contact in relation to evidentiality are raids in the Japanese Archipelago during World issued by the Meiji interactions among the users of this linguistic variety Disparities between Anglo-Oceanic and Japanese is possible to reapply found among Ainu and three other neighbouring but War II. The research also highlights their initial Jingu Research - mainly, non-heterosexual Japanese men. The ideologies of ecotourism present unique challenges if an award recipient unrelated languages: Nivkh, Udihe and Japanese. atomic bombing relief operations in Hiroshima Institute. study will mainly focus on the Shinjuku Ni-Chome to the English and Japanese translators of the tourist has demonstrated and Nagasaki on the days of bombings, and their ​ area, where onee-kotoba is mostly practiced in texts published to inform and persuade foreign outstanding potential Being awarded the Meiji Jingu scholarship for this first aid medical treatment for radiation diseases. ​The journal will Tokyo, and it will try to give reason of the meaning visitors to participate in eco-tours offered in Japan, for research. Please first year of PhD was an honour and a priceless help Concerning the history of institutional behaviours feature a short attributed to the use of this variety, studying how Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia. This project note that this for Elia’s study experience. The scholarship allowed and the JRCS ethos, the project explores the 15th essay​ in Japanese​ these people express independence and creativity examines the translation strategies employed scholarship cannot hin to live in London and to frequent the university International Conference of the Red Cross in Tokyo by the 2014- on a linguistic, relational and political level. by English and Japanese translators to navigate be held during the on a daily basis. There he was able to benefit from in 1934, which was the first Red Cross International 2015 recipients The research will not focus only on onee-kotoba’s these ideological differences while simultaneously Extension of Writing-Up the rich array of resources and from the exchange Conference in Asia. The congress could be analysed of the Meiji Jingu morpho-syntactic features, but it will also discuss adhering to the target culture-oriented approach (Continuation) status. of ideas with different people that were fundamental in the view of the crisis of internationalism. It Scholarships: the state of onee-kotoba at a sociolinguistic level advocated by tourist text translation scholars. for his learning. He is happy to use this award for my also examines how the JRCS was involved in the Michiko Suzuki’s - whether it is a dialect, a jargon or a linguistic Each scholarship is research, to help Meiji Jingu to foster knowledge of establishment of the Manchukuo Red Cross Society will be published standard, and it will try to compare its geographic This project will first compile and assess data valued at £7,000 in Japan overseas. (MRCS), which the JRCS worked with, as well as Red in November 2015 diffusion to its demographics. composed of translated and non-translated total. Cross workers from colonial territories of Japan, and Elia dal Corso’s Japanese and English promotional ecotourist texts. such as Taiwan and Korea. in May 2016. Onee-kotoba will allow us to better understand The translation strategies identified as indicators Further information: what is constructed as the Other through linguistic of ideological assumptions are repetition, over- In fulfilling the aims of the project Michiko hopes ​Further details and nonlinguistic practises, while also providing a lexicalisation, transitivity, and style-shifts. Using www.soas.ac.uk/ to discover ‘the grand humanitarianism’, which available online: more defined portrayal of the relationship between corpus software, this project will then analyse data registry/scholarships was spontaneously guided by human instinct and www.meijijingu. language and sexuality among this group of non- sets to investigate how these strategies influence escaped from any kinds of political influences. It also or.jp/ heterosexual Japanese speakers. the target reader’s view of the host culture’s aspires to elevate historical humanitarian narratives ecotourism model. into an idea of ‘chikō gōitsu: (知行合), which stresses Finally, the aim of Marcello’s research is to make the importance of achieving full integration between more accessible the knowledge and understanding The aim of this research project is to determine knowledge and practice. In other words, the of an existing reality in contemporary Japan such as if current translation practices, specifically humanitarian idea and the humanitarian action are the cultural dynamics of the people who may not between Japanese and English, in the ecotourism two sides of the same coin, synchronous and ever recognize themselves in the dominant paradigm and sector within the Pacific Region are detracting inseparable in the reality of human sufferings. may express that adopting onee-kotoba. from or contributing to effective cross-cultural communication in the international ecotourism It has been such a great honour for Michiko to industry. By doing so, this project will provide insight receive the Meiji Jingu Japanese Studies Research into how current ecotourism translation practices Scholarships. It has provided her with great financial in Anglo-Oceania and Japan might be further support, and thus far enabling her to concentrate developed to bridge the gap between foreign on her studies satisfactorily throughout the year visitors’ perception of ecotourism and the host without any concerns. culture’s ecotourism goals.

38 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 39 Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentship Sponsored by the Nippon Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation

Radu LECA Lois Barnett Robert James SIMPKINS Michiko SUZUKI Sasakawa PG Studentship Recipient 2014-2015 Sasakawa PG Studentship Recipient 2014-2015 Sasakawa PG Studentship Recipient 2015-2016 Sasakawa PG Studentship Recipient 2015-2016 FINAL REPORT FINAL REPORT INTRODUCTORY REPORT INTRODUCTORY REPORT SASAKAWA POSTGRADUATE

Thesis Title Thesis Title Thesis (working) Title Thesis Title STUDENTSHIP The Backward Glance: Concepts An Investigation of Audience ‘Playing in Kōenji’: Making History of Disaster, Recovery, 2015 of ‘outside’ and ‘other’ in the Responses To and Motivations street music in a Tōkyō and Humanitarianism in Japanese spatial imaginary of the for the Use of Western-Inspired neighbourhood. Wartime Japan, 1931-1945 The Sasakawa 17th century Costume in Japanese Cinema Postgraduate The analysis of visual (1923-39) Robert’s thesis follows the My project explores the wartime Studentship, made representations of peripheric lives of buskers that perform in humanitarian relief activities of possible through the spaces and identities, and what Lois has studied at SOAS since Kōenji in central Tōkyō. Buskers’ the Japanese Red Cross Society generosity of The these representations can tell us 2010, gaining both a BA in status as both street performers (JRCS) personnel, and their Nippon Foundation about the relationship between Japanese Studies (First class) and an MA in Global and part-time workers set involvement in the International and the Great Britain reality and fantasy in this period. Cinemas and the Transcultural (Distinction). them apart from deeply engrained societal norms Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement between Sasakawa Foundation. regarding lifetime employment and render them 1931 and 1945. Most historiographies of the Before coming to SOAS, Radu studied for five years She feels extremely lucky, and is very grateful, to the subject of an ongoing moral panic about Red Cross have been dominated by a West- SOAS can nominate in Japan thanks to the generosity of the Japanese have been awarded the Sasakawa Postgraduate freeterism (underemployed freelancers). In Kōenji, centred narrative of humanitarianism. However, up to three students government, and completed a BA in Japanese Studentship for the first year of her PhD studies. It is the deviance associated with underemployment an epistemological framework of Japanese for studentships of Literature in Kanazawa University. He decided to a privilege that has afforded her the benefit of time and appropriation of public space is challenged by humanitarian activities during World War II was £10,000 (untaxed) expand his MA research at SOAS into a PhD in and space to engage in her research with a singular musicians through structures of performance and temporally and spatially far beyond our traditional History of Art titled ‘The Backward Glance: Concepts focus that would not have been possible otherwise, a sense of agency distilled in the notion of mobility. historical discourse. The JRCS had wide networks Any full-time of ‘Outside’ and ‘Other’ in the Japanese Spatial indeed without the Foundation’s input she would Street performers assimilate this discourse into self- with a range of agencies in wartime Japan, while Postgraduate Taught Imaginary of the Seventeenth Century.’ This thesis not have been able to embark on this course of management, self-promotion using social media, they preserved contacts with the International Red Masters Degree is chronologically focused on the late seventeenth research at all. and non-monetary forms of exchange that facilitate Cross and other Red Cross Societies outside Japan Programmes with century, which he considers to have been a time of camaraderie and strong senpai-kouhai relationships during the series of imperialist wars that led up to a dissertation on a rapid changes in the spatial experience, and focuses The grant has also allowed Lois to procure a large of dependency. They also create clear strategies for the World War II. The organisation itself was at a theme connected with on the impact of representations on the changing amount of primary source material myself – this has ‘progression’ in the subtly hierarchical musical world crossroads, and individual aid workers acted behind Japan or any full-time spatial imaginary of the period. His investigation largely been achieved via the use of internet auction they inhabit. Whilst it is tempting to frame the story the scenes. Thus, one of aims of the research is to MPhil/PhD student shows the degree to which the cultural identity of sites and classified advertisements, leading to of those he has come to know in Tōkyō as one of examine the history of JRCS wartime humanitarian (new admissions and urban publics depended on references to peripheral negotiations with booksellers, ephemera traders and subculture, youth deviance and spatial tensions in activities in the global history discourse. current SOAS MPhil/ spaces and identities. private sellers not only within Japan and the UK but public areas of the city, 路上ライブ (rojō raibu or PhD students) whose across the world. This has allowed for the affordable ‘performance on the street’) is also an activity which In order to add to the historiography of the thesis topic focuses on This fourth year has been the busiest in Radu’s acquisition of materials which may not be available incorporates a savvy for entrepreneurialism and Japanese Empire and World War II narratives, this any aspect of Japan are doctoral programme. He has stayed well within the in existing archives – for example a variety of English echoes standardised views regarding work ethics study of wartime humanitarianism seeks to re- eligible to apply. schedule of writing up his thesis, while teaching language materials produced by Japanese and hierarchical social relationships. Consequently, interpret some of the wartime landscape of wartime undergraduate and postgraduate classes on Japanese publishers for overseas readers, clearly the young men and women who take to the mobilisation surrounding the JRCS. The organisation Full details available at: Art at SOAS throughout the year. A peer-reviewed demonstrating the public image of Japan and its streets walk a fine line between maintaining and itself struggled to operate relief activities while article stemming from my doctoral research has film industry which was considered fit for Western commodifying their authenticity as street musicians. maintaining the Red Cross’ international claim www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/ been published in Comparative Critical Studies, and consumption – and for in-depth analysis of Their collective stories suggest an involved of neutrality. Although there are a large number awards-and-grants/ a chapter in an edited volume on Women, Gender magazines, posters and the like to be examined as engagement with their future which contradicts of wartime historiographies, operations of aid and Art in East Asia is undergoing review and is due cohesive artefacts, contextualised physical products popular images of an apathetic youth, and instead workers have generally become lost to the historical to be published with Ashgate next year. In June 2015 of modernity, rather than as simply sources of two- highlights a series of attempts to maintain a sense narrative. Therefore, this project re-explores wartime he co-organized an international interdisciplinary dimensional articles and images as represented of control amid rising social inequalities and history through the lens of ‘humanitarianism’ with symposium on pre-modern Japanese studies, held at by a scanned image onscreen. She asserts that uncertainty in Japan. the aim being to recover voices of aid workers, and SOAS on 4-5 July. this consideration of the value of ephemera as a throws light on the history of the great silence of physical everyday object existing within the modern humanity. The Sasakawa Studentship has been invaluable in space (a role held also by clothing and accessories providing him financial security during this critical themselves) rather than as simply a two-dimensional This research project may allow scholars of and stressful period, especially when it came to means of providing historical evidence of visual Japan, and perhaps the Red Cross itself, to better travel and accommodation expenses. Having this and literary cues, can provide further input into understand the extent to which the institution’s support encouraged me to participate in a variety reconstructing audience responses and opinions of relief activities were, and were not, in accord with its of events during which he was able to present and Western-inspired aesthetics. Without input institutional mission. receive feedback on his research, which is especially from a funding body, she would not have been able relevant in view of his desired future academic to access these sources for her research, and she is career in Japanese Studies. He would like to extend so grateful for the opportunity the Foundation has his deepest thanks to the Sasakawa Foundation for provided me to investigate this fascinating topic. supporting, among other topics, research on pre- modern Japanese cultural history.

40 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 41 SOAS School wide events Networking with the wider community

STUDY ABROAD AND EXCHANGE AT SOAS STUDY ABROAD AND EXCHANGE STUDENT 2014-2015 EUROPEAN EXECUTIVES VISIT FOR EXECUTIVE TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR JAPAN AND KOREA Overview The SOAS Study Abroad and Exchange programme offers Azusa Tao undergraduate and postgraduate students the opportunity to study Tokyo University of Foreign Studies OAS welcomed the latest cohort of participants on the the diversity and strength of academic research at SOAS by at SOAS for either a semester or a year. Students can transfer credit EU-funded Executive Training Programmes for Japan and colleagues affiliated with the JRC and CKR. back to their home university so that the courses they select at Korea in for 3 weeks in November. Thirty-six participants SOAS can form a part of their degree. S in total attended the 3-week programmes which were I am grateful to all my academic and business colleagues who What courses are you taking at SOAS? delivered by over thirty Japan and Korea experts, drawn mostly from contributed to the programme this year and I look forward to Study Abroad or Exchange students at SOAS are able to design their Comparative Growth in Asia and Africa the Japan Research Centre and Centre of Korean Studies but also working with you again in the future.” own unique programme of study. They can decide to focus on a involving practitioners from business and academics from other particular region or concentrate on a specific discipline, and are free institutions. The programme aims to equip executives from all over The European Commission are currently reviewing the objectives to choose courses from across each of our three Faculties and all of Why did you choose SOAS? the EU with the skills and knowledge needed to help them develop and structure of the Executive Training Programme and will our Departments. Not only that SOAS provides us with a wide range of courses their business activities announce later this year whether there will be funding for future specialising in Asia and Africa, there are so many international in Japan or Korea. cycles. Exchange Partnerships students from around the world. You can find some language Doshisha University | Hitotsubashi University | Hokkaido University courses that are very hard to learn in any other insitutions! (starting 2015/16) | Hokkaido University of Education | International Therefore people here are very keen to understand different For further information about the ETP Christian University | Kansai University | Keio University | Kobe cultures and languages and I loved interacting with people with visit www.euetp.eu University | Kwansei Gakuin University | Kyoto University of Foreign different backgrounds. I personally liked talking with the students SOAS Enterprise Team: www.soas.ac.uk/enterprise/ Studies | Kyushu University | Meiji University (starting 2015/16) | studying Japanese since it gave me an opportunity to look at my Nagoya University | Nanzan University | Ochanomizu Womens country objectively. University | Osaka Prefecture University | Osaka University, School of Economics | Osaka University, School of Foreign Studies What did you enjoy most about your academic studies at SOAS? EUビジネスマン研修プログラム（日本と韓国編） (Osaka Gaidai) | Ritsumeikan University | Sophia University | Tokyo I loved Comparative Growth in Asia in Africa, which is on the very University of Foreign Studies (Tokyo Gaidai) | Waseda University basic processes in which less developed countries may be able SOASは、日本と韓国でビジネスを展開するための「EUビジネス to achieve their economic growth. Since it was my first exposure マン研修プログラム」の研修会を開催し、ヨーロッパからの参 to development studies, I hardly had any knowledge on it, but 加者一団をお迎えしました。この研修プログラムは11月に三週 the course was structured well enough for any complete starters 間に渡って行われ、総勢36人が参加しました。本研修プログラ to fully understand the contents. I found it very intersting to ムは、30人以上の日本及び韓国に関する専門家によって開催さ see how the culture of my country was being explained to have れました。ほとんどのプログラムで、ジャパン・リサーチ・セ contributed to its economic growth, because I had thought how ンターと韓国研究センターの専門家メンバーが指導しました organisations operate in Japan was universal but actually it was が、それ以外にも産業界やその他の研究機関、学界関係者によ perceived as unique. る研修も行われました。本プログラムは既に経験を積んだヨー ロッパ人の企業幹部を対象としており、彼らが日本や韓国でビ Moreover, I enjoyed Hindi courses, which were Hindi 2 and ジネスを展開するに当たり、必要なスキルと知識を身に付ける Readings in Contemporary Hindi, a lot as well. I would always ことを目的としています。 feel at home in them and the teachers always let us have some time to discuss and share our thoughts. It was my second year to study Hindi and the courses were very suitable for me to actually As in previous cycles, participants attended sessions providing Dr ヘレン・マクノートン（2015-2016年度：ジャパン・リサー チ・センター長）は、「日本と韓国でのビジネスを対象とした put into practice my Hindi skills by composing sentenses and historical, political, economic and cultural background as well as speaking up. an introduction to the East Asian business environment. They also 「EUビジネスマン研修プログラム」の成功は、SOASで日本と韓 国に関するそれぞれの研究センターに所属している、同僚研究 benefitted from practical skills training such as developing effective Overall, SOAS has a wonderful atmosphere that the students are business plans and an introduction to the Japanese and Korean 者たちの研究対象の多様性とその能力の高さを物語っている。 」と述べています。 very open to new things and this is the best thing I will miss about writing systems. here. SOAS is part of a consortium with Waseda University in Tokyo and 「EUビジネスマン研修プログラム」の詳細はこちら：www. euetp.eu Any advice for students thinking about studying abroad/on Yonsei University in Seoul to deliver the one-year programme; exchange in the UK? following the European module participants move to Japan or Generally, I think the UK is very generous about ‘differences’, so Korea for nine months where they undergo intensive training in please do not afraid of how you may be perceived by people. Japanese or Korean language, business and management and Get in touch My initial concern was my English, for example, and I would be attend a three month internship in a relevant sector. For more information on Study Abroad and Exchange at SOAS sometimes too obssessed with mistakes and my pronunciation visit www.soas.ac.uk/studyabroad/ or get in touch with the Study and could not concentrate on expressing my thoughts. However, Dr Helen Macnaughtan, acting Chair of the Japan Research Centre Abroad team on [email protected] and +44 (0)20 7898 4125. there are a lot of people who speak English not as their first for the academic year 2015-16, said “the successful delivery of language and people here are very kind enough to try to the Executive Training Programmes for Japan and Korea reflected understand us and help us. If you express something, then people will deffinitely listen to you.

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SOAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN JAPAN (SAIJ) SOAS同窓会

SOAS alumni are part of a global, unique and diverse network of SOASの同窓会は、グローバルでユニーク、更に多様性に富んだネ graduates. The Alumni Network is an online community to connect ットワークを有しています。そのネットワークは、インターネッ with fellow alumni and the School, as well as access the service and トで卒業生と大学を繋ぎ、また様々なサービスや特典を卒業生で benefits SOAS offers you as an alumnus. ある皆様に提供しています。

Overview 最新ニュースについては、SOAS同窓会ネットワークのFacebook The SOAS Alumni in Japan (SAIJ) are one of our most active alumni ページ（www.facebook.com/Soas.Leavers）とSOAS同窓会日本支 associations and welcome visiting staff and students, as well as 部（SAIJ）のFacebookページ（www.facebook.com/SOAS.alumni. alumni in the region, to join in their regular events. SAIJ welcomes japan）をご覧下さい。 the following: JAPANESE SPEECH CONTEST: SPOKEN 1. SOAS alumni and students currently studying at SOAS who BUSINESS JAPANESE have ties with Japan 2. Anyone who has ties with SOAS and Japan (even if they are not Overview SOAS alumni). Dedicated to the memory of the late Sir Peter Parker 3. Anyone who wants to have non-commercial ties with SOAS and Japan, including prospective students and Japanese The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese graduates of other British universities who want to maintain were established in 1990 by the Japan External Trade connections with the UK Organisation (JETRO) London, and the SOAS, University of London. The Awards are widely recognised as having made a significant contribution to the recent growth in the use of Japanese in business, as well as having benefited The 25th Sir Pater Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese was participants in their professional careers. held on Tuesday 10th February 2015 at SOAS.

Purpose of the Awards First Prize Winner The purpose of the Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Mr Ming Jeong (NNA) Business Japanese is to deepen the understanding of Proposed Global Changes to Japanese Companies’ Middle Japanese business culture by businessmen and women Management Hiring Strategy of the countries of the European Union through study of the Japanese language, and to contribute to goodwill and Second Prize Winner mutual understanding with the people of Japan through Miss Livia Scumpieru (Denso Automotive Deutschland GMBH) better communication. The role of the women in the Japanese companies

Third Prize Winner Mr Angus Turvill (Freelance Translator) Sponsors Localizing Cultural Products - Japanese Books and Films for non- Annual LDK (London Daigaku-Kai: University of London’s Alumni Japanese Consumers Association in Japan) party Special Prize Winner Mrs Raile Rauk (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) Supported by Business Communication in Japan Get in touch For more information on alumni activity in Japan, please contact the SOAS Alumni Relations team at [email protected] or on +44(0) 20 7898 4041. You can also view photos on the SOAS Alumni Office Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/soasalumni/ and read updates Get in touch Dr Stephen Dodd with SOAS alumns at the ‘Bounenkai’ End of Year Alumni Party from the SOAS alumni network and SAIJ on the Facebook pages: in Tokyo www.facebook.com/Soas.Leavers and www.facebook.com/SOAS. For more information on the Sir Peter Parker Awards alumni.japan. for Spoken Business Japanese visit www.soas.ac.uk/ languagecentre/awards/sppa/or get in touch with the Secretariat on [email protected] and +44 (0)20 7898 4828.

44 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC WWW.SOAS.AC.UK/JRC SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 45 SOAS, University of London is the only Higher Education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.

SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely combining language scholar- ship, disciplinary expertise and regional focus, it has the largest concentration in Europe of academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

On the one hand, this means that SOAS scholars grapple with pressing issues - democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, social change - confronting two-thirds of humankind while at the same time remaining guardians of specialised knowledge in languages and periods and regions not available anywhere else in the UK.

This makes SOAS synonymous with intellectual enquiry and achievement. It is a global academic base and a crucial resource for London. We live in a world At SOAS the understanding of Japanese of shrinking borders and of economic language, history, and culture has been and technological simultaneity. Yet a core area of study since the university it is also a world in which difference admitted its first students in 1917 as and regionalism present themselves the School of Oriental Studies. SOAS’ acutely. It is a world that SOAS is commitment to nurturing, refining, and distinctively positioned to analyse, expanding the study of Japan has only understand and explain. grown over the last century.

Last year, the numbers of first-year CONTACT US 現在SOASにて学部生５００名余り、 intake of students for BA Japanese and MA Japanese Studies combined were We welcome you to become part of 院生１００名余りが日本及び日本語に the SOAS experience and invite you to 焦点を当てて学際的に学んでおりま our highest yet. We currently have over five hundred undergraduates and over learn more about us by exploring our す。欧州における当分野の研究機関と website. しては最大の学生数となります。 one hundred postgraduates at SOAS whose interdisciplinary studies include www.soas.ac.uk an aspect centred on Japan or Japanese. No other institution in Europe has such Admissions a high concentration of students with a www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/ WHY CHOOSE SOAS? focus on the field. SOAS Library SOAS attracts the brightest and most Furthermore, with more than twenty www.soas.ac.uk/library/ exceptional candidates for PhD five academic specialists, SOAS houses research in all areas, and the study of one of the largest concentrations of Research Japan and Japanese is no exception. Japan specialists outside of Japan. SOAS’ www.soas.ac.uk/research/ Year on year since 2009, the number of Japan Research Centre (JRC) has been PhD students studying some aspect of the forum for Japan-related research SOAS, University of London Japan has held steady, with an average activities at SOAS since 1978 and Thornhaugh Street of nearly thirty research students each continues to thrive. Russell Square year. London WC1H 0XG

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