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2010 Associate Professor Masako Gavin, Japanese Studies, Bond University The Life and thoughts of Ienaga Toyokichi: Bridging over the Pacific "Excellent indexes and databases, as well as a superb collection of books and journals on Japanese history and International Relations enabled me to go into ‘lock down’ mode and concentrate on my mission – ‘impossible’ at home." ....
Recipients of our Japan Study Grants, funded by Harold S Williams Trust Fund. The program supports scholars researching on Japan and requiring special access to the Library’s Japanese and Japan related collections. 2017 Ms Laura Clark, researching on 'Comparing Japanese and English-language theoretical constructions of Japanese masculinities' ....
Literary connections between Australia and Japan In the library I found a comprehensive supply of books in English specificaly relating to my project, including translations into English of Japanese fiction, and I aslo found interconnected material giving me good background knowledge. I was quite impressed by some of the latest collections of sociological materials, for example, seven volumes of short stories published in occupied Japan (1945-1952) by Fujiwara Shoten. I came across them while browsing in the stack. Dr David Chapman, Program Director, International Studies and Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia Koseki: the ‘State’ of creating and controlling Japanese citizens ....
Dr Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, with her research topic on ‘ Japanese Soldiers Migrant Experiences – through the ATIS Interrogation Reports’. 2016 Visualising Imperialism: Japan and its ‘Exterior Territories’ 1900 – 1945 A/Prof Tomoko Aoyama, School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Queensland Tsurumi Kazuko and Shunsuke in Australia, 1937 Dr Lucy Fraser, Lecturer in Japanese, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland Animal-Human Interactions in Japanese Tales Retold: Retelling Takizawa Bakin’s Dog-Human Interactions in Sakuraba Kazuki’s Fuse: A Counterfeit Eight Dog Chronicles Ms Mayu Kanamori, independent scholar, photographer and script writer, Sydney Japanese Women in Australia Dr Helen Kilpatrick, Senior Lecturer, Japanese in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong ....
Now Online: Japanese Rare Book Digital Collection (The following is a post by Cameron Penwell, Japanese Reference Librarian, Asian Division) The Japanese Rare Book Digital Collection, launched in December 2020, currently contains 35 titles in more than 270 volumes. Twenty-five of these rare books are newly digitized, while the remaining ten are titles that were first scanned and made available online several years ago. Only recently, however, were they assembled as a collection and configured for viewing on the Library’s updated platform for digital content. Among the previously digitized materials are some rare and beautifully illustrated works of classical Japanese literature that have drawn attention from scholars around the world. Of particular interest are two unique editions of “The Tale of Genji,” the famous 11th-century work attributed to Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978–c. 1014), a lady-in-waiting at the imperial court in Kyoto (then known as Heiankyō). One ....