A second CD featuring my music is being released in May 2023. For more details, see my music website.
New articles in AY2022
I published 1 article, 2 book chapters, 1 essay, and 1 book review in AY 2022. They are:
1. ‘Travelling the Bakumatsu Opera The Woman Who Loved Toshizō: Towards a theory of music-related contents tourism’ (article)
2. ‘The Pathos of the Soldier-Athlete in Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific War’ (chapter)
3. ‘Discourses of War and Peace during Japan’s “Postwar”’ (chapter)
4. 「グローバルとローカルの音楽」(essay)
5. Review of Leo T.S. Ching, Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Post-Colonial East Asia (review)
New Book: War as Entertainment
The latest book in our contents tourism project, War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan (edited by Takayoshi Yamamura and Philip Seaton), was published open access by Routledge. However, a much better way of reading the book is via my website War Memory Tourism, where you can see the chapter pdfs alongside related materials.
「地球の音楽」が出版された
I have a short essay in Chukyu no ongaku (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Press, 2022) about music in the United Kingdom. It is more personal essay than research paper, but it signals the beginning of a more active focus on music research alongside my composing activities, something I have discussed in my music blog. The chapter is in Japanese (see the publisher’s page here).
New website: War Memory Tourism
I have created a new website called War Memory Tourism. This website is a research and teaching resource that is designed as an online appendix for my various research projects and an interactive reading list for my students. Do check it out!
Graduation!
Congratulations to the 21 BA students and 2 MA students who graduated on 23 March after completing their theses under my supervision. All the best in whatever comes next …!
Open access book chapter: “Japanese Society at War”
My article “Japanese Society at War: History and Memory” is now available open access in the The Routledge History of the Second World War.
Beyond Japan Podcast
On 30 September an edition of the Beyond Japan Podcast (University of East Anglia) was released with me talking about contents tourism. Check it out!
「コンテンツツーリズム」が出版されました!
2020年に出版されたContents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandomの和訳は、北海道大学出版会によって出版されました。リンク:出版社のWebページ
New Book Chapter in The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism
My chapter “Rewriting history, revitalizing heritage: Heritage-based contents tourism in the Asia-Pacific region” co-authored with Sue Beeton has just been published in The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism.