Beyond Japan with Oliver Moxham

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 h...

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, ch...

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...

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....

Oliver is joined by Dr Rayna Denison, Senior Lecturer in Film, Television and Media Studies. Rayna specialises in local and transnational studies of Asian media industries, especially popular cinema and television. Today she kindly joins us to place the genre of Japanese animated television and film, popularly known as anime, into the broader world of arts. See Rayna's Research Profile here . Get...

Oliver is joined by Dr Ra Mason, Sasakawa Lecturer in International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy at the University of East Anglia who will introduce us to the dynamic and nuanced world of Japan's International Relations.  See Ra's Research Profile here .  If this episode has given you an appetite for politics and diplomacy, you can join Ra at the cutting edge of Japanese Foreign...

Oliver is joined by Dr. Hannah Osborne, Senior Lecturer in  Japanese Literature at the University of East Anglia, who explores with  us the diverse, powerful and increasingly international field of modern  Japanese literature. Hannah Osborne is Lecturer in Japanese Literature at the School of  Literature, Drama and Creative Writing and the Centre for Japanese  Studies at t...

Welcome to the debut episode of our new podcast series 'Beyond Japan', where we explore the interdisciplinary nature of Japanese Studies through academics from a wide range of fields. For our first episode, Oliver is joined by the Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia, Professor Simon Kaner , Executive Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japa...