Beyond Japan with Oliver Moxham

Oliver is joined by Dr Iza Kavedžija, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter, to discuss ‘super-aged’ Japan, the challenges of a top-heavy demographic and how to live a meaningful, hopeful life in the face of crisis. 

Iza's research profile is available here.

ARTICLES: 

Reorienting Hopes

The good life in balance: Insights from ageing Japan

MEDIA:

Social care Japanese style – what we can learn from the world’s oldest population

The Japanese concept of ikigai: why purpose might be a better goal than happiness

Interview in Japanese by Eikoku News Digest

Image credits:

[L] ひいおばあちゃんと曾孫 by k14

[R] お年寄りに注意 by cyberwonk

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Oliver is joined by Andrea De Antoni, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Ritsumeikan University, discussing how to academically approach rumours of hauntings and the discriminated histories they can represent. In this episode, we grapple with 'affect' as a means of understanding bodily experiences in haunted spaces and what we can learn from comparing such phenomena on a transnational level.

Andrea's research profile is available here.

You can also experience a drive through Kiyotaki tunnel here.

ARTICLES:

Andrea's article on Kiyotaki tunnel

Witnessing an exorcism in Italy

Steps to an ecology of spirits

Other hauntings of Kyoto

Image credits:

[R] Mountain of the Fear - Mt. Osore by Junichiro Sekino

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Oliver is joined by Warren Stanislaus, PhD candidate at Oxford and Associate Lecturer of global and transnational intellectual history at Rikkyo University, on the Black Lives Matter Movement and Afro-Japanese Cultural Exchange. Listen in to learn about the imaginings and attitudes towards race in Japan and the people challenging the homogeneity myth of 'Nihonjinron'. 

Warren's website can be found here.

See the breakdown of his Rikkyo course on Transnational Intellectual History here.

Read his article on 'Black in Japan: Shifting the Narrative' here.

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Oliver is joined by Dr Michael Tsang, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at Newcastle University, who will be discussing the impact of acclaimed author Haruki Murakami’s ‘Always on the Side of the Egg’ speech on the Hong Kong protests. We explore the agency of a novelist using his skill with language to express political support and inspiration while averting direct political confrontation.

See Michael's research profile here.

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Oliver is joined by Dr Dolores (Lola) Martinez, research affiliate at the University of Oxford’s Anthropology department, to discuss the cinematic works of legendary director Akira Kurosawa and the exchange of ideas that occurred between his cinematography and that of Western cinema. 

See Lola's research profile here.

ARTICLES

Review of the book 'Kurosawa Akira vs. Hollywood'

2017 BBC podcast, 'Seven Samurai: A Japanese masterpiece'

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Oliver is joined by Dr Chris Perkins, senior lecturer in Japanese at the University of Edinburgh, who will be discussing Japanese Korean Cultural Exchange in the immediate post-war. We will be reflecting on how media shaped popular notions of both nations by their respective peoples after more than half a century of colonisation.

See Chris's research profile here.

You can watch Diary of Yunbogi here.

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Oliver is joined by Dr Giulio Pugliese, Departmental Lecturer in Japanese Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, who has written extensively on politics and international relations in the Asia-Pacific with a focus on Japan, China and the United States. Today we will be discussing the legacy of Shinzō Abe on Sino-Japanese relations following his resignation on the 16th September, and how his departure will impact the future relationship between Japan and China.

You can find out more about Dr Pugliese's research here.

You can preview his book Sino-Japanese Power Politics: Might, Money and Minds here.

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Oliver is joined by Dr Sherzod Muminov, lecturer in Japanese History at the University of East Anglia, who explores how histories of empire and war are shaped in Japan and the reverberating impact that has in Japanese society and on its international relations.

See Sherzod's research profile here.

If you would like to tackle the challenging field of transnational imperial history with Sherzod, check out the ‘Researching Japan’ module of our new MA in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies. 

Image credits: Photograph of Yushukan imperial soldier statue by Oliver Moxham; Kobayashi Yoshinori (1998) 'Sensōron', Tokyo: Gentōsha

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Oliver is joined by Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, lecturer in Japanese Arts, Cultures and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute, who will be introducing calligraphy and the post-war avant-garde movement.

See Eugenia's research profile here.

Eugenia is the Course Director of our new MA in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies. If you would like to explore the colourful and diverse world of Japanese Art History, you can find out more about the course at the SISJAC website.

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Oliver is joined by Dr Nadine Willems to discuss political dissent during Japan’s modernisation period. She highlights the grievances of dissenters and the kind of censorship and repression they had to confront. She discusses the place of anarchism as an anti-capitalist ideology in the early twentieth century and how it was informed by foreign intellectual trends as well as indigenous traditions. The podcast also illustrates the role of poetry as a way to raise awareness about the plight of the Ainu community in northern Japan in the 1930s.

See Nadine's Research Profile here.

Follow her on Twitter @N_Willems5

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