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Signifikansi Aksi Melela Dalam Manga Shimanami Tasagore (2015), Erina Firdausy, Dewi Anggraeni 2023 Universitas Indonesia

Signifikansi Aksi Melela Dalam Manga Shimanami Tasagore (2015), Erina Firdausy, Dewi Anggraeni

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

This study examines the concept of coming out as part of queer narrative within Shimanami Tasogare (2015), a manga by Kamatani Yūki. Although coming out has become an important concept within LGBTQ, previous related research tends to see coming out as a one-time achievement. This study analyses the significance of coming out in Shimanami Tasogare by using the queer narrative approach. This study applies Klein et al.’s theory (2015) which argues that coming out is a dynamic and non-linear social process. This study uses text analysis and compositional interpretation (Rose, 2001) as research method. Results show that coming out plays …


Mixed Speak: Towards A Re-Poetics Of Race And Self, Celina Mizuki Ohga Samuelson 2023 Macalester College

Mixed Speak: Towards A Re-Poetics Of Race And Self, Celina Mizuki Ohga Samuelson

Media and Cultural Studies Honors Projects

This paper tells the stories of mixed-race Japanese people. I engage in a re-poetics, positing storytelling as an essential tool into complicating our understandings of race and self. I examine the relationship between language and race, exploring how subjects existing within a space of mixedness navigate identity-formation and racial belonging. Operating under a socio-constructivist lens, I begin with a brief re-telling of the history of race in Japan, re-framing mythologies of race throughout literature, legislation, and into national and colonial projects. While popular discourse alleges Japan was and is a country of racial homogeneity, I argue that this falsifies colonial …


Caron's Japan: Tokugawa State And Society Through A European Lens, Cegan Hinson 2023 University of Mary Washington

Caron's Japan: Tokugawa State And Society Through A European Lens, Cegan Hinson

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

Dutch East India Company (VOC) merchant François Caron describes Tokugawa Japan as a rigid political hierarchy controlled by the Shogun, similar to the governments established by absolute monarchs in Europe. Caron understands and insightfully describes Tokugawa society by emphasizing perceived and real similarities between Tokugawa Japan and Early Modern Europe. He struggles to understand religious differences between these societies, but his description of Japanese religious practices still reflects how the Shogunate utilized Buddhism and anti-Christian policies to uphold their rule. Caron also depicts Tokugawa Japan as a land of plentiful resources prime for lucrative trade. He includes the writings of …


From Pedagogical To The Practical: A Study Linked By Japanese Themes, Kennedy Lomont 2023 Bowling Green State University

From Pedagogical To The Practical: A Study Linked By Japanese Themes, Kennedy Lomont

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

This portfolio consists of three essays linked by Japanese themes and also includes a practical project. These papers delve into the subjects of Japenese incarceration, magical girl anime, and Noh theater. My practical portion contains the materials that I have created and refined for job search purposes.


Maturing Manga: An Analysis Of Adult Themes In Shōnen Manga, Audrey Leahy 2023 Georgia Southern University

Maturing Manga: An Analysis Of Adult Themes In Shōnen Manga, Audrey Leahy

Honors College Theses

Manga is a Japanese form of visual storytelling comparable to comic books and graphic novels that has seen a significant increase in popularity abroad in the twenty-first century. In Japan, manga is published in magazines intended for particular target audiences. The two most prominent of these are shōnen, manga for young men, and seinen, manga for adult men. This paper examines these demographics and explores the growing similarities between these two demographics. The research compares the adult content and themes of manga in both shōnen and seinen manga. The series Dorohedoro and Chainsaw Man were analyzed both quantitatively for amounts …


‘Aboutness’ Relation In Japanese Topicalization: An Analysis Of The Np1 Wa Np2 Da Construction, Megumi Yoshida 2023 Toyo University

‘Aboutness’ Relation In Japanese Topicalization: An Analysis Of The Np1 Wa Np2 Da Construction, Megumi Yoshida

Japanese Society and Culture

This study investigates the comprehension of a Japanese topicalized construction with the structure NP1 wa (topic) NP2 da (copula) by native speakers of Japanese. The meaning of this kind of sentence can be extremely ambiguous when NP1 and NP2 do not refer to an identical referent. However, it is usually not considered ambiguous when used in a particular context since the context indicates how it is meant to be understood. This study examines the uses of this construction in experimentally controlled contexts. The results indicate the significant effects of the syntactic or semantic relation with the …


A Century Of Critical Buddhism In Japan, James Mark Shields 2023 Bucknell University

A Century Of Critical Buddhism In Japan, James Mark Shields

Faculty Contributions to Books

This chapter introduces the central arguments of Critical Buddhism as a lens by which to view the course of “modern” Buddhism in Japan, particularly as it relates to politics. It traces philosophical and political precedents for Critical Buddhism in the context of Japanese modernity, by focusing on several progressive Buddhist figures movements from mid-Meiji through early Shōwa, including the New Buddhist Fellowship and the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism. I argue that previous attempts to centralize criticism as a basic Buddhist precept were unsuccessful in part do to an inability to distinguish the Buddhistic components of their thought and practice, …


I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue In F Minor, Seo-Young J. Chu 2023 CUNY Queens College

I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue In F Minor, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Pig Gourd: The Meaning Of Tezuka’S Playing Around With Form, Jon Holt, Teppei Fukuda 2023 Portland State University

Pig Gourd: The Meaning Of Tezuka’S Playing Around With Form, Jon Holt, Teppei Fukuda

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

Taking an arguably minor character from Tezuka Osamu’s oeuvre, Natsume Fusanosuke argues how the Pig Gourd’s cameos even in the artist’s most serious works demonstrate a bifurcated sense of play and high-brow artistry in his manga. Natsume employs an early version of his ‘manga-expression theory’ (manga hyōgen-ron) manga-analysis approach, which he began to develop in this, his first manga-studies monograph and seminal study of the ‘god of manga’ Tezuka Osamu. This translation of a chapter essay from Where Is Tezuka Osamu? (Citation1992) demonstrates Natsume’s versatility in isolating thematic patterns or formal experimentations in an artist’s style, including …


Dissertation Chapters Underway: 10,000 Shards, Or Opening And Activating Depth: Handicraft, Value, And The Work Of Art (Shards 00000-00001), Christopher Southward, Christopher Southward 2023 Binghamton University--SUNY

Dissertation Chapters Underway: 10,000 Shards, Or Opening And Activating Depth: Handicraft, Value, And The Work Of Art (Shards 00000-00001), Christopher Southward, Christopher Southward

Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship

Dissertation Chapters Underway: 10,000 Shards, Or Opening and Activating Depth: Handicraft, Value, and the Work of Art (Shards 00000-00001), Christopher Southward


Magical Girls: Queer Identity In Japan, Keira McDevitt 2023 Gettysburg College

Magical Girls: Queer Identity In Japan, Keira Mcdevitt

CAFE Symposium 2023

Queer themes have long been interlaced with feminist ideals and "magical girls" within Japanese anime culture. The subject is explored within two iconic magical girl anime, "Madoka Magica" and "Revolutionary Girl Utena", as well as the history of queerness in Japan and its relevancy to modern ongoing franchises.


Post-Traumatic Growth And Comfort Characters In Japanese Media, Brandon S. Ireland 2023 Gettysburg College

Post-Traumatic Growth And Comfort Characters In Japanese Media, Brandon S. Ireland

CAFE Symposium 2023

A study of the concept of comfort characters as an idea formed thanks to post-traumatic growth and an emotional attachment to fictional characters thanks to survivor stories.


Aum: The Cult At The End Of The World, Dereck Daschke 2023 Truman State University

Aum: The Cult At The End Of The World, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of AUM: The Cult at the End of the World (2023), directed by Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto.


Aloha Japan: Staging Hawaiian Culture, A. Anuheaokalani Noriko Breeden 2023 Connecticut College

Aloha Japan: Staging Hawaiian Culture, A. Anuheaokalani Noriko Breeden

East Asian Languages and Cultures Department Honors Papers

No abstract provided.


Formulaicity And Contexts: A Multimodal Analysis Of The Japanese Utterance-Final Tteyuu, Michiko Kaneyasu 2023 Old Dominion University

Formulaicity And Contexts: A Multimodal Analysis Of The Japanese Utterance-Final Tteyuu, Michiko Kaneyasu

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

This study investigates the use of the utterance-final tteyuu [ʔtejɯː], a combination of the quotative particle tte and the verb yuu (‘say’). Although its lexicalized status and utterance-final occurrence are commonly observed, we still know little about its real-time functions. The analysis of 120 examples in varied contexts shows its general usage to clarify something expressed in the prior talk, which is a type of repair practice. More importantly, the analysis reveals how the participants’ understanding of the ongoing speech activity and multimodal cues affect its use and interpretation. Furthermore, some specialized usages appear to motivate activity-bound pragmatic inferencing, leading …


Asia Pacific Perspectives Vol. 18 No 1. 2023, University of San Francisco 2023 University of San Francisco

Asia Pacific Perspectives Vol. 18 No 1. 2023, University Of San Francisco

Asia Pacific Perspectives

Contents:

Articles

Urban Youth on the Margins: Inequality in China’s Sent Down Youth Movement by Sanjiao Tang

Chinese Firms in the Belt and Road Initiative: A Cross-Sectoral Study of BRI Activities in Kenya by Yabo Wu

Book Review

W. Puck Brecher. Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History by James Stone Lunde



Endless Waves: Japanese Creative Writing Project, Seth Nisley 2023 Eastern Michigan University

Endless Waves: Japanese Creative Writing Project, Seth Nisley

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The goal of this project was to create a short story in Japanese for the purpose of improving my Japanese writing abilities, especially in areas such as natural character dialog, setting descriptions, pacing and other aspects of creative writing that are usually not covered in language classes. I outlined and drafted the short story first in English to establish a rough framework, then rewrote the story in Japanese with slight variations. I edited the text twice myself and subsequently edited it with a native speaker to ensure a natural tone. Throughout the final editing process, the initial goal of editing …


Geisha As Living Embodiments Of Art Representing Japanese Cultural Aesthetic, Addie Richmond 2023 Otterbein University

Geisha As Living Embodiments Of Art Representing Japanese Cultural Aesthetic, Addie Richmond

Undergraduate Distinction Papers

Since the Edo period, geisha have existed as living embodiments of the Japanese arts and aesthetic culture. The true world of the geisha is little known or understood, especially in the west, and misconceptions continue to be perpetuated through popular media. The primary representation of geisha often focuses on their role in relation to male patrons, rather than on artistic accomplishments and cultural value as individuals. This research analyzes the evolution of aesthetics, as being central to expressions of Japanese artistic practices that contributed to the role of the geisha within historical social spaces. Through establishing context for historical precedent, …


ตัวละครเอกชายในงานเขียนของมุระกะมิ ฮะรุกิ ในช่วง ค.ศ. 1979-2017, ดุสิตา ปริญญาพล 2023 คณะอักษรศาสตร์

ตัวละครเอกชายในงานเขียนของมุระกะมิ ฮะรุกิ ในช่วง ค.ศ. 1979-2017, ดุสิตา ปริญญาพล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาตัวละครเอกชายในงานเขียนของมุระกะมิ ฮะรุกิ ในช่วง ค.ศ.1979-2017 และบริบททางสังคมของญี่ปุ่นในช่วงเวลาดังกล่าว โดยวิเคราะห์ผ่านความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างตัวละครเอกชายกับตัวละครอื่นๆในเรื่อง ซึ่งจะแสดงให้เห็นลักษณะการปฏิสัมพันธ์ระหว่างตัวละครเอกชายกับสังคม รวมทั้งสะท้อนทัศนคติของผู้เขียนที่มีต่อสังคมภายใต้บริบทสังคมญี่ปุ่นร่วมสมัย โดยสามารถแบ่งลักษณะของตัวละครเอกชายได้ตามช่วงเวลาการประพันธ์ผลงานของมุระกะมิ ฮะรุกิ ได้เป็น 3 ช่วง ดังนี้ งานเขียนในช่วงแรก (ค.ศ. 1979-1986) ตัวละครเอกชายมีการรับมือและจัดการกับปัญหาด้านความสัมพันธ์กับคนรอบข้างด้วยวิธียอมรับจนนิ่งเฉย หลีกหนี หรือกีดกัน ซึ่งล้วนสะท้อนให้เห็นลักษณะของตัวละครเอกชายที่มีความโดดเดี่ยวและแปลกแยกจากสังคม ไม่สอดคล้องกับความเป็นชายกระแสหลักที่สังคมคาดหวัง อันเป็นผลมาจากสภาพสังคมญี่ปุ่นในช่วงฟื้นฟูประเทศภายหลังการพ่ายแพ้สงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 รวมทั้งอิทธิพลจากประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกาและทวีปยุโรป เกิดการปะทะสังสรรค์กันของหลากหลายแนวคิดและอุดมการณ์ ทั้งความเป็นปัจเจกนิยม ความเป็นเสรีนิยมแบบบุปผาชนหรือฮิปปี้ ตลอดจนอุดมการณ์ทุนนิยมที่กลายเป็นกระแสหลักที่กาหนดรูปแบบและวิถีชีวิตของผู้คน งานเขียนในช่วงที่สอง (ค.ศ. 1987-1999) ตัวละครเอกชายดาเนินชีวิตท่ามกลางค่านิยมดั้งเดิมของญี่ปุ่นกับความเป็นสมัยใหม่แบบตะวันตกได้ดูกลมกลืนมากขึ้น นับตั้งแต่ลัทธิทุนนิยมที่ไหลบ่าเข้าสู่ประเทศญี่ปุ่นตั้งแต่ช่วงทศวรรษที่1950 จนกระทั่งยุค “ทศวรรษที่สูญหาย” ภายหลังปรากฏการณ์ฟองสบู่แตกในช่วงครึ่งหลังทศวรรษที่1990 พัฒนาการของตัวละครเอกชายในช่วงนี้สะท้อนผ่านบทบาท “พ่อ” และความต้องการเป็นพ่อ ซึ่งเผยให้เห็นการยอมรับและปรับตัวเข้าสู่สังคม ในขณะเดียวกันก็สะท้อนความเป็นชายแบบใหม่ที่เป็นขั้วตรงข้ามกับปิตาธิปไตยแบบดั้งเดิม ทั้งนี้อาจเพื่อนำเสนอทางออกให้แก่สังคมที่เต็มไปด้วยปัญหาที่ฝังรากลึกอยู่ในสังคมญี่ปุ่น งานเขียนในช่วงที่สาม(ค.ศ. 2000-2017) ภายใต้บริบทสังคมในยุคทศวรรษที่สูญหายที่เริ่มตั้งแต่ทศวรรษที่1990 สังคมญี่ปุ่นยังคงอยู่ในสภาวะสูญหายอยู่จนกระทั่งปัจจุบัน ตลอดจนเหตุการณ์ภัยพิบัติแผ่นดินไหวครั้งใหญ่ที่เกิดขึ้นในปีค.ศ.2013 ประกอบกับการที่มุระกะมิเติบโตขึ้น ทำให้เขาเริ่มหันกลับมามีพันธกิจต่อสังคมญี่ปุ่น โดยการนาเสนอตัวละครเอกชายที่ละทิ้งความเป็นปัจเจก หันกลับมาให้คุณค่ากับการรวมกลุ่ม อันเป็นคุณค่าดั้งเดิมของมนุษย์ หากมนุษย์ร่วมมือช่วยเหลือกันและกันสังคมจะเปลี่ยนแปลงไปในทิศทางที่ดีขึ้น


De Médée À La Sorcière : Reconstruction D’Un Mythe Par Michelet, Caroline Strobbe 2023 The Citadel

De Médée À La Sorcière : Reconstruction D’Un Mythe Par Michelet, Caroline Strobbe

The Coastal Review

In La Sorcière, Jules Michelet uses the strength and the myth of the Medea character, which had already fascinated Corneille. In the second part of his work, Michelet creates nominative witches after authentic texts. In the first part, he creates an allegoric witch on the Medea model: the Woman, a victim of arbitrariness, injustice and repression, rises up against her oppressors, figuring the march of Humanity towards Enlightenment and Liberty. The analogies between the Witch and Medea are therefore numerous and necessary, since they help to render the defense of the oppressed against the oppressor. Would the somber Medea, …


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