New Frontiers in Japanese Studies

Abstract

Introduction: envisioning new frontiers in Japanese Studies, Akihiro Ogawa and Philip Seaton Part 1: Rethinking Japanese area studies in the 21st century 1. Rethinking the Maria Luz Incident: methodological cosmopolitanism and Meiji Japan, Bill Mihalopoulos 2. Exporting theory 'made in Japan': the case of contents tourism, Philip Seaton 3. Japanese language education and Japanese Studies as intercultural learning, Jun Ohashi and Hiroko Ohashi 4. Japanese Studies in China and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1945-2018, Yi Zou 5. Japanese Studies in Indonesia, Himawan Pratama and Antonius R. Pujo Purnomo Part 2: Coping with an aging society 6. Discover tomorrow: Tokyo's 'barrier-free' Olympic legacy and the urban aging population, Deirdre A.L. Sneep 7. Foreign care workers in aging Japan: Filipino carers of the elderly in long-term care facilities, Katrina Navallo 8. Immigrants caring for other immigrants: the case of the Kaagapay Oita Filipino Association, Melvin Jabar Part 3: Migration and mobility 9. Invisible migrants from Sakhalin in the 1960s: a new page in Japanese migration studies, Svetlana Paichadze 10. Japanese women in Korea in the postwar: between repatriation and returning home, Mooam Hyun 11. Challenging the 'global' in the global periphery: performances and negotiations of academic and personal identities among JET-alumni Japan scholars based in Japan, Sachiko Horiguchi 12. Dream vs. reality: the lives of Bangladeshi language students in Japan, Siddiqur Rahman 13. Sending them over the seas: Japanese judges crossing legal boundaries through lived experiences in Australia, Stacey Steele 14. 'Life could not be better since I left Japan!': transnational mobility of Japanese individuals to Europe and the post-Fordist quest for subjective well-being outside Japan, Susanne Klien Part 4: The environment 15. Japan's environmental injustice paradigm and transnational activism, Simon Avenell 16. 'Community power': renewable energy policy and production in post-Fukushima Japan, Akihiro Ogawa