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Journal of Japanese Studies: Exploring Multidisciplinarity January 2022 Volume 1 Number 1 Inaugural issue Founding Editor Abul Barkat Download

BOOK REVIEW Akihiro Ogawa & Philip Seaton (Edited). New Frontiers in Japanese Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 258 pp. ISBN: 9780367406806 (hbk); ISBN: 9780367821494 (ebk) (hardcover, also available as e-book). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367821494 Md. Jahangir Alam, PhD https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6312-5685 Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh. E-mail: mjalam.jsc@du.ac.bd https://doi.org/10.55156/jjsem.dec2133 Download

BOOK REVIEW Hirabayashi Hiroshi. India: The Last Super Power (1st Edition). Aleph Book Company, 2021, 203 p. ₹- 699. Gitanjali Sinha Roy Research Associate, Centre for Security and Strategy Studies (CesCube), India https://doi.org/10.55156/jjsem.dec2132 Download

Transgenerational Trauma in Ichiyo Higuchi's WAREKARA - A Multidisciplinary Approach to Literary Research Zsolt Nyeste A PhD student of the Japanese Philology Doctoral Program at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Currently working as, a Japanese teacher. Email: nyeste.zsolt@hunfalvy.com Abstract In this paper, I examine the heroine, Omachi's fate in Warekara – one of the last stories of Higuchi Ichiyo, the principal female author in the Meiji era –using multidisciplinary approaches. Besides literary theory, I mainly rely on a psychological perspective and the relatively new concept of transgenerational trauma. This latter can serve as an organising force behind the story's [...]

Comparing Women Empowerment issue in Bangladesh and Japan and Its Possible Impacts Farida Yeasmin Banna Graduate Student, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Email: faridayeasmin343@gmail.com Abstract This research investigates women empowerment issues by comparing Bangladesh and Japan and finding out its possible impacts in those countries. By using qualitative method, the examination of the research provides a result that women's position is increasing in Bangladesh and Japan day by day, and this comparison keeps mainly positive impacts though it has negative impacts. However, countries societal mindsets cannot be changed by writing a research paper. Many societal, organisational, [...]

Hikikomori: How the Youth of Japan are Living as a Shut-in Pratyusha Majumder Post Graduate Fellow, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, India. E-mail: pratyushamajumder5@gmail.com Abstract Hikikomori in Japan is a condition in which affected people want to withdraw from society and often do not leave home for days. First identified in Japan in the late 1990s, current studies suggest that the condition is far more widespread than previously thought. Some researchers saw the growth of the withdrawal phenomenon in 1980, and it is linked to the collapse of the "bubble economy" of the generation and the [...]

A Contemporary Indian Expatriate View of Japan: Orienting an Indian in Japan by Pallavi Aiyar M. V. Lakshmi Assistant Professor, Centre for Japanese Studies, School of Language Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. E-mail:mvlakshmi@gmail.com Abstract In recent years, with the movement of people across nations, be it for economic or political reasons, by choice or due to economic or political circumstances, the opportunities to interact with one another across borders of one's own country have increased. Thiscan be seen in various milieus such as the workplace or socially, through informal and formal platforms, through person to [...]