STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Hikari Hori (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Promiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression of nationalism. Hori makes clear that the Japanese … [Read more...]
March 11 Event: “The Nuclear Disaster, Tsunami, and Manga: The Representation of Recent Disasters in Japanese Popular Culture:” Video
Video is now available from the March 11, 2016 event “The Nuclear Disaster, Tsunami, and Manga: The Representation of Recent Disasters in Japanese Popular Culture." The event featured guest speaker Yukari Fujimoto, Professor of Japanese Studies, Meiji University and Visiting Scholar, Columbia University; and moderator Hikari Hori, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages … [Read more...]
