Enhancing Pharmacy Students’ L2 English Proficiency: Vocabulary Knowledge and Collaborative Learning in Reading

Enhancing Pharmacy Students’ L2 English Proficiency

Vocabulary Knowledge and Collaborative Learning in Reading

  • Haruko Shimazaki／2026.2
  • JPY 6,000／A5 size, softcover, 180 pages
  • bookdesign: Toshinobu Nagata

This study bridges its inspiration and purposes by demonstrating the transformative potential of reading as both a skill and a gateway to professional growth. By addressing the unique challenges faced by pharmacy students, it provides a framework for enhancing EMP proficiency and preparing future pharmacists to meet the demands of an increasingly interconnected world. (from Chapter 7: Conclusion)
This study addresses these challenges through the following objectives.
– Enhance Reading Proficiency
– Support Vocabulary Development
– Evaluate Collaborative Reading (CR)
– Advance Evidence-Based Teaching Practices
– Contribute to Global Pharmacy Education (from Chapter 1: Introduction)
（ISBN 9784868161301）

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Motives for This Study
1.2 Purposes of the Study
1.3 Organization of the Study
1.4 Three Domains of Subject Development Study and Their Connection to This Study
1.5 Ethical Considerations

Chapter 2 Theoretical Background
2.1 Research Context in Pharmacy Education
2.2 Literature Review
2.3 Summary of Chapter 2

Chapter 3 Study 1: Investigation of Japanese Pharmacy Students’ English Vocabulary Knowledge
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Methodology
3.3 Results and Discussion
3.4 Conclusion of Study 1

Chapter 4 Study 2: An Analysis of Japanese Pharmacy Students’ Knowledge of EMP Vocabulary: Its Breadth, Characteristics, and Difficulty Order
4.1 Research Questions
4.2 Methodology
4.3 Results and Discussion
4.4 Conclusion of Study 2

Chapter 5 Study 3: Verification of the Effectiveness of Collaborative L2 Reading Comprehension Among Japanese Pharmacy Students
5.1 Research Questions
5.2 Methodology
5.3 Results and Discussion
5.4 Conclusion of Study 3

Chapter 6 Study 4: Japanese Pharmacy Students’ Perceptions of CR
6.1 Research Questions
6.2 Methodology
6.3 Results and Discussion
6.4 Conclusion of Study 4

Chapter 7 Conclusion
7.1 Pedagogical Implications
7.2 Practical Applications of Pedagogical Implications
7.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research
7.4 Overall Conclusion

References
Appendices

Author

HARUKO SHIMAZAKI
Haruko Shimazaki is an Associate Professor at the Center for Language Education, Tsuru University, Japan. She holds an MEd from the University of Bristol, an MA in TESOL from the University of Chichester, and a PhD in Education from Shizuoka University. Her research is grounded in second language acquisition and English language education, with particular focus on vocabulary development, collaborative learning, and reading pedagogy in higher education and English for Medical Purposes (EMP) contexts. She has published peer-reviewed studies on pharmacy students’ EMP vocabulary knowledge, collaborative reading, and research-informed instructional design, including articles in the Journal of Medical English Education and the Modern Journal of Studies in English Language Teaching and Literature. She is a member of major professional associations in Japan and internationally, including JACET, JALT, JASMEE, and ThaiTESOL, and has served as a reviewer for an international ELT journal. Her professional qualifications include Cambridge CELTA and Cambridge DELTA (Module 2).

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Anthropocene Calling (AAA series Vol. 3)

Anthropocene Calling (AAA series Vol. 3)

  • Yasuko Nakamura, Giuseppe Patella, Hironari Takeda eds. / 2026.3
  • JPY4,000 / A5 size, softcover, 408pages
  • bookdesign: Tamon Yahagi

. . . The Anthropocene implies a radical spatio-temporal rethinking of the planet. The concept of a clash of scales poses fundamental challenges to the way in which the planet is perceived, investigated, and represented. From this viewpoint, the interdisciplinarity of this book, that collects the results of two international conferences held in Italy in 2024–2025, can really help to frame some of the problems immediately arise in relation to Anthropocene, such as: how to define the place of humans in natural world? What is the meaning of nature? How we are to be regarded in relation to the other natural beings? How to respond to problems facing us, now and in the future, such as environmental degradation, climate changes, overpopulation and overconsumption, destruction of natural resources, coexistence among different natural beings and dierent cultures? How can technology, humanities and the arts address this situation?
from ‘The Many Faces of the Anthropocene. Introduction’ by Giuseppe Patella
（ISBN 9784868161356）

Table of contents

Giuseppe Patella, The Many Faces of the Anthropocene. Introduction
Part 1 – The Anthropocene between Philosophy, Ecology, Aesthetics
1 Giuseppe Patella, What’s Wrong with the Anthropocene? Critique of an Ideology
2 Federico Luisetti, A Pluriversal World: Exiting the Anthropocene
3 Atsushi Okada, Ecology as Aesthetics: Alexander von Humboldt, Ernst Haeckel, and Elisée Reclus
4 Francesco Campagnola, Anthropocene as Historic-Ontological Awareness
5 Nozomu Ninomiya, Adorning the Appearance: Exploring the Intellectual History of Animal Aesthetics
6 Paolo Heritier, The Chorological Space of Being Human between East and West
Part 2 – Technology in the Age of the Anthropocene: Human, Machine, and Habitus
7 Roberto Terrosi, The Technocene: For a New Phenomenology of Spirit
8 Hideki Ohira, The Neuro-Habitus: Brain-Body Mechanisms Generating, Maintaining, and Changing Human Mind
9 Mario Verdicchio, Anthropocene: The Other Sociotechnical Blindness
10 Yasuko Nakamura/Wanwan Zheng, To Shape Oneself, to Reconfigure the Word: Exercises in Anthropotechnics and the Potentiality of Thinking
11 Yu Izumi, Abusive Language in the Age of AI: Insights from the Japanese Linguistic and Cultural Context
12 Tetsuya Yamamoto, Digital Mental Health Care in the Anthropocene: Enhancing Life with AI and ICT
Part 3 – The Anthropocene and the Arts
13 Hironari Takeda, Naoya Hatakeyama and Images of the Anthropocene: Catastrophe, Sublime, and Ruins
14 Vincenzo Cuomo, The Anthropocene from a Parasitic Perspective. The Long End of Neolithic Civilization and the Role of Artistic Experimentation
15 Ayako Ikeno, How to Imagine the Atmosphere: Mikami Seiko’s sculptures in the Age of Anthropocene
16 Asako Fukuda, “Immunity” and Zombies
Hironari Takeda, Afterword: For Further Collaboration

Editors

YASUKO NAKAMURA
Professor of German Literature and Intellectual History and Director of Humanity Center for Anthropocenic Actors and Agency at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University.

GIUSEPPE PATELLA
Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Director of IRCA̶International Research Center for Aesthetics and Art Theory.

HIRONARI TAKEDA 
Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at Kyoto University.

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The Art of Escape: On Melville’s Bachelor Machines

The Art of Escape

On Melville’s Bachelor Machines

  • Taras Alexander Sak / 2025.2
  • JPY6,000 / A5 size, softcover, 220pages
  • bookdesign: Toshinobu NAGATA

…… It is this aspect of Melville’s work and life that interests me most, this moment when his Ishmael-like outcasts or orphans turn their backs on society and law and plunge into uncharted waters, so to speak.  In other words, when they turn away from their societies and cross the line of the horizon, as Lawrence phrased it.  And it is this moment—more precisely this movement of escape or taking flight—that will be the focus of this monograph, in which I examine the “major” texts mentioned above (Moby-Dick, Pierre and The Confidence-Man), alongside selected “minor” works to which they are variously related, in order to chart this movement, speculate as to what Melville is escaping from, and consider the contemporary relevance of Melville’s “art of escape.”
（ISBN9784861109959）

Table of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Mad Fathers; or, Escaping the Nation
Chapter 2: Lost Sons (and Daughters); or, Escaping the Family
Chapter 3: An (Un)Holy Ghost; or, Escaping the Subject
Conclusion

Author

Taras Alexander Sak earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton, focusing upon 19th and 20th century American Literature, the work of Herman Melville, and Critical Theory. He has published widely on Melville, Poe, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Saul Bellow, and Cormac McCarthy, as well as on music (Lou Reed, Bob Dylan) and film. He is currently an Associate Professor at Yasuda Women’s University in Hiroshima, Japan.

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Low Fertility and Local Values through the Lens of Demographic Anthropology: Living Arrangements of the Elderly in Thailand and Sexuality and Reproduction in Japan

Low Fertility and Local Values through the Lens of Demographic Anthropology

Living Arrangements of the Elderly in Thailand and Sexuality and Reproduction in Japan

  • Yoshie Moriki／2024.12
  • JPY4,000／duodecimo, hardcover, 168pages
  • bookdesign: Nayuko Nakamoto

How are macro population structures linked to the value systems of local communities? In this book, the author explores this question using innovative methods of demographic anthropology that combine qualitative and quantitative approaches to the cases of Thailand and Japan.

（ISBN 9784861109553）

Table of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION
Aims of this Book
A Contribution to Demographic Anthropology

Chapter 1 　THE SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF LOW FERTILITY
The Case of Thailand: Population Aging and Elderly Care
The Case of Japan: Sexuality and Reproduction

Chapter 2 METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES: CAPTURING LARGE POPULATIONS, QUANTITATIVELY AND QUALITATIVELY
Data Collection in Bangkok: Statistical Considerations and Ethnographic Approach
Data Collection in Tokyo and Other Parts of Japan: Exploring Alternative Methods

Chapter 3　LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN BANGKOK: THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A BUN KHUN-MINDED CHILD
Traditional Old-age Co-residence
Determinants of Living Arrangements: Quantitative Results
Ethnographic Insights: Qualitative Results
Conclusions

Chapter 4 SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR AMONG SINGLE MALES IN JAPAN
Meaning of Sexual Activities: Social Sexuality and Solo Sexuality
Dating Relationships and Reproductive Future with the Girlfriend
Conclusions

Chapter 5 CONCLUSIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Author

MORIKI, Yoshie

Professor, International Christian University
Ph.D., Anthropology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University
Areas of Specialization: Demographic Anthropology, Area Studies

Main Works
Moriki, Yoshie. 2017. “Physical Intimacy and Happiness in Japan: Sexless Marriages and Parent-Child Co-sleeping.” In Happiness and the Good Life in Japan, edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter and Barbara Holthus. London: Routledge.
（Moriki, Yoshie, and Ryota Yoneda. 2022. Cross-Cultural Research. Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press.）
（Moriki, Yoshie, and Rikiya Matsukura. 2022. “Sexless couples and family values in Japan: Analyses from Fertility and Sexuality Viewpoints.” In The Demography of Sexuality, edited by Hiroshi Kojima and Kohei Wada. Tokyo: Harashobo.）

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From Apau Kayan, Borneo to Tokyo: The Adventure of a Kenyah Dayak Man Who Met a Japanese Person

From Apau Kayan, Borneo to Tokyo

The Adventure of a Kenyah Dayak Man Who Met a Japanese Person

  • Makoto Inoue, Ndan Imang／2024.12
  • JPY2,200／duodecimo, softcover, 312pages

*Only e-books and Amazon print-on-demand versions
(ISBN 9784868160090(e-books), 978-4-86816-011-3(Amazon POD))

Table of contents

Preface
Introduction: Background Information　Kalimantan / Borneo’s Indigenous People / Dayak Typification / Worldviews and Beliefs / Attack on a Dutch Garrison by Japanese Troops

Chapter 1: Birth
Main Theme　　The Disappeared Village of Long Dumu / Birth / Longhouses / The Great Move / Lifestyle / Establishment of Suharto’s New Order / A Terrible War / Headhunting / Frugal Living
Obbligato　　Birth / Father and Mother
Chapter 2: Early Life　　　
Main Theme　　Scared of Airplanes / Border Dispute with Malaysia / Hunting Experiences / Swidden Agriculture and Food / Favorite Food / Taught How to Hunt by His Father
Obbligato　　A Mother Who Believed in Him
Chapter 3: Elementary School Years
Main Theme　　Afraid of Punishment / Stone Writing Tools and Homework / The Outside World / Opening of the Airfield / Name Change Recommendation Ahead of Graduation
Obbligato　　High Economic Growth / Severe Burns and Alienation / Bittersweet Youth Baseball
Chapter 4: Middle School Years
Main Theme　　Journey to Long Nawang Village / Working Hard in Middle School / Responding to Famine / Tuition Fees / Ndan’s First Pair of Shoes / An Unfortunate Conclusion / Presence of the National Armed Forces
Obbligato　　The “All-Japanese-Are-Middle-Class” Mentality and the First Oil Shock / Resisting Repeated Violence
Chapter 5: Life in the City and an Inferiority Complex　　
Main Theme　　To the Provincial Capital Samarinda / Graduating from Middle School in Samarinda / Inferiority Complex as an Indigenous Person / Restored Self-Confidence as an Indigenous Person / Life and Learning in High School and University / Indonesian Economic Development
Obbligato　　Japan as Number One / High School Basketball Club / University Entrance Exams / Boarding Life in Tokyo / Inferiority Complex to Feeling Good / Fighting on the Basketball Court at University / Choosing Specialization
Chapter 6: Getting a Job and Getting Married　　　
Main Theme　　The Struggles of Job Hunting / Marriage / The Age of “Development” and Suharto’s Withdrawal
Obbligato　　Choosing a Job / Adolescence at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute / Why Study Foreign Countries? Why International Cooperation? / Sojourn in Kalimantan / Peak and Bursting of the Bubble
Chapter 7: Getting a PhD in Japan　　　
Main Theme　　Meeting a Japanese Person and Hinterland Fieldwork / New Endeavors / Impressions of Japan / Japanese Food / Obtaining a PhD / The Next Dream
Obbligato　　Policy Research and International Cooperation That Benefits Local Residents / The Inoue Seminar as a “Port” / Expectations for Ndan
Commentary 　　　The Behavioral Principles of Swidden Farmers / Migrant Work as Travel / The Likelihood of a Turning Point / Importance of a “Relational World” / The Forest and Swidden Agriculture in a “Relational World” /Role of External Experts / Experience before “Being Made” / Meaning of Learning from the Field
Afterword (1) by Ndan Imang　　　
Afterword (2) by INOUE Makoto　　
Notes　　　

Authors

INOUE Makoto
Born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1960, he lives in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture. He is a professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. He earned his Doctor of Agriculture degree from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in environmental sociology, forest governance, and Southeast Asian area studies. After working at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute; Tropical Rainforest Research Center of the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (JICA Long-Term Expert); and Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo, he assumed his current position in 2017. He has served as President of the Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology, Vice President of the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Vice President of the Japanese Society for Current Anthropology, and Trustee of the Japan Society of Tropical Ecology. He is also the Representative Director of the Japan Environmental Council (JEC) and author of In Search of the Idea of the Commons: Thinking with the Forests of Kalimantan(New World Affairs) (Iwanami Shoten, 2004). His hobby is karate-do (Japan Karatedo Federation Wado-kai 5th dan, instructor 2nd grade, Japan Sports Association karatedo coach 1).

Ndan Imang
Born in Long Dumu in 1964, he lives in Samarinda City, East Kalimantan, Republic of Indonesia. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Agriculture, Murawarman University. He has a PhD in Agriculture from the University of Tokyo. He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at Murawarman University, where he also completed a Master’s degree in forestry. He specializes in agricultural socioeconomics, swidden agriculture, and agribusiness.

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Discourse Marker Well in Spoken American English: Some Suggestions for Politeness and Cross-Linguistics

Discourse Marker Well in Spoken American English

Some Suggestions for Politeness and Cross-Linguistics

  • Ryo Takamura／2023.12
  • JPY6,000／A5size, hardcover, 298pages
  • bookdesign: Tamon Yahagi

（ISBN 9784861109263）

Table of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Transcription conventions

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Study aims
1.2 Outline

Chapter 2 Conceptual background: Definitions and assumptions
2.1 Discourse markers
2.2 Grammaticalization
2.3 Functional-semantic modes of language
2.4 Politeness theory

Chapter 3 Previous studies on well
3.1 Synchronic perspectives
3.2 Diachronic perspectives
3.3 Syntactic and semantic perspectives
3.4 Well and politeness

Chapter 4 Functions of well: Interpersonal and textual modes from the perspective of politeness
4.1 Data
4.2 Interpersonal functions
4.3 Textual functions
4.4 Summary and Discussion

Chapter 5 Bon as a discourse marker
5.1 The multifunctional nature of bon
5.2 Interpersonal functions
5.3 Textual functions
5.4 Relevance of findings: Case of bueno in Spanish
5.5 Summary and Discussion

Chapter 6 Theoretical implications
6.1 Discourse markers
6.2 Grammaticalization
6.3 Functional-semantic modes of language
6.4 Politeness theory

Chapter 7 Concluding remarks
7.1 Summary
7.2 Further issues

References
Name index
Subject index

Author

Ryo Takamura
“Pragmatic functions of wara in Japanese text messages”. Journal of Japanese Linguistics.

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American Measure: William Carlos Williams’s Vision of Free Verse

American Measure

William Carlos Williams’s Vision of Free Verse

  • Aya YOSHIDA／2021.3
  • JPY 5,000／A4 size, hard cover, 156 pages
  • bookdesign: Tamon Yahagi

William Carlos Williams championed the distinctive rhythms of American speech over against the English ones imposed in schools. He also resisted the foreign idioms embraced by Eliot and Pound, which he saw as a threat to the integrity of American verse. This was not a stay-at-home poet-doctor’s resentment of flamboyant cosmopolitanism, but obeyed a task imposed on him by the American language itself. Taking up this challenge, he found a new voice for America, in a style of composition which was by no means as free, casual, or direct as it might have appeared. Aya Yoshida shows this by tracing Williams’s quarrel with “free verse,” which he regarded as an oxymoron, and by uncovering the hidden prosodic discipline which was his lifelong concern. Central to this project was his invention of a ‘variable foot’ that replaced iambic constriction with a subtler music to catch the modern ear. The correlative experiments in typography that he also pursued throughout his career set up a dialectic between the aural and the visual, which could charge an individual image such as the iconic “red wheelbarrow” with a new kind of presence and significance. Yoshida’s analyses of these effects will kindle a thirst in her readers to renew acquaintance with this great American poet, and to make many similar discoveries of their own. –– Joseph S. O’Leary

（ISBN 9784861107320）

Table of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Embodiment of Freedom
Chapter 2 So Much Depends Upon a Variable Foot
Chapter 3 Ut pictura poesis
Chapter 4 A Recognizable American Idiom
Chapter 5 Asphodels
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Author

Aya YOSHIDA is Program-Specific Lecturer at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University. She received her Ph.D. in Human and Environmental Studies from Kyoto University. Her research interests focus on modern American poetry. Recent publications include “Surrealistically ‘glazed with’ the American Idiom: Williams’s Translations from French Verse and Prose,” published in William Carlos Williams Review 37 (2020).

Japanese English: A Descriptive Grammar

Japanese English

A Descriptive Grammar

  • Kolawole Waziri OLAGBOYEGA / 2020.2
  • JPY 6,900 / A4 size, softcover, 324 pages

Arguments rejecting the pedagogic notion of “Standard English” or “correctness”, and suggesting that all forms of English are equal, have resulted in the proliferation of terms such as “Indian English”, “Singapore English”, “Filipino English”, “Nigerian English” etc., which are claimed to be on precisely the same equal footing with “American English”, “British English”, “Australian English”. (From Chapter 1 Introduction: English in Japan)
（ISBN 9784861106804）

Table of contents 

Chapter 1  Introduction: English in Japan
1.1  English in Japan or “Japanese English”?
1.2  The English language policy in Japan
1.3  The EFL teachers and culture materials in Japan
1.4  The business of ELT in Japan
1.5  Educated speakers of English in Japan
1.6  Educated spoken English in Japan
1.7  The notions of “standard practice” and “divergence”
1.8  The purpose of the work
1.9  Scope, data and methodology
Chapter 2  The Structure of the Noun Phrase
2.0  Introduction
2.1  Grammatical categories associated with the constituents of the NP
2.2  Standard realization of the NP
2.3  Divergent realization of the NP
Chapter 3  Concord
3.0  Introduction
3.1  The principles that underlie the notion of concord
3.2  Realization of grammatical concord
3.3  Divergence relating to grammatical concord
3.4  Proximity vs. other principles of concord
Chapter 4  Order of Premodifiers
4.0  Introduction
4.1  The premodification structure in standard practice
4.2  Relative sequence of premodifiers
Chapter 5  The Structure of the Verb Phrase
5.0  Introduction
5.1  Verb classification in English
5.2  Standard realization of VPs
5.3  Divergent realization of VPs
Chapter 6  Prepositional Phrases
6.0  Introduction
6.1  The class of prepositions
6.2  Standard realization of PPs
6.3  Divergent realization of PPs
Chapter 7  Multi-word Verbs
7.0  Introduction
7.1  Multi-word verbs in standard practice
7.2  Standard realization of multi-word verbs
7.3  Divergence relating to multi-word verbs
Chapter 8  Educated written English in Japan
8.1  Divergence relating to articles
8.2  Divergence relating to noncount nouns
8.3  Divergence relating to concord (“grammatical discord”)
8.4  Divergence relating to the order of premodifiers
8.5  Prepositions
8.6  Multi-word verbs
8.7  Verbs
8.8  Stability and frequency of divergent forms
8.9  Distinctiveness
Endnote and Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index

Author

Kolawole Waziri Olagboyega

Professor (Chief) Kolawole Waziri Olagboyega is a British/Nigerian academic who is based in Japan. He is the Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the Department of English, Faculty of Letters and Graduate School of Tsuru University, Japan. Prior to joining Tsuru University in 2018, he was the Director of the English programs and the Director of the Language Acquisition Center at the International College of Liberal Arts, Yamanashi Gakuin University, Japan. He had taught in the Graduate School at Akita International University in Japan from 2007 to 2014. Prof. Olagboyega has taught a variety of students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Oman, North Cyprus and Japan. He is an alumnus of four universities including, the University of Sheffield (Ph.D. in English and Applied Linguistics), University of Cambridge (M.Phil. in English and Applied Linguistics), University of Greenwich (PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education and Training) and Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria where he obtained his B.A.Ed., graduated with a first-class honors degree in English Education and was awarded the student with the best overall performance (CGPA) in the B.A., B.A.Ed., B.Sc., and B.Ed. degree examinations in 1992.
Prof. Olagboyega is an accomplished scholar with four books and numerous scholarly publications. He has published widely in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching and World Englishes with many publications in international journals. He is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. Two of his other books are:
1. Olagboyega, K.W. (2017): English Language: Structure, Varieties, Social Contexts and Learning. (Single-author); March 29, 2017; Yamanashi Gakuin University Press.
2. Olagboyega, K.W. (2013): Communicative Grammar for High School and University Students. (Single-author); January 25, 2013; Akita International University Press.

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On the Road to the East Asian Community: Modern History of East Asia Edited by Its Students & Citizens

On the Road to the East Asian Community

Modern History of East Asia Edited by Its Students & Citizens

  • OKUDA Takaharu & Editorial Board of the English Version “Higashi Asia Kyodotai Eno Michi” / 2019.12
  • JPY 6,000 / A4 size, softcover, 522 pages
  • bookdesign: Toshinobu NAGATA

An intellectual movement for writing transnational East Asian modern history project from viewpoint of public citizenship of its community: How could we achieve to “re-historize” compositions and conflicts on modernization in East Asia, as a basis for establishing new concert in the emerging East Asian community?
（ISBN 9784861106552）

Table of contents 

Preface to the English Edition
Foreword: From Editorial Board of Chapter I & II
Introduction
Chapter I Modernizations in East Asia & Rising Imperialism In Japan: The “Western Impact” and Fates of East Asian Nations
§1. Domination of East Asia by the Western Powers & Establishment of the Meiji Government: Formation of Nation-State and its Problems in Japan
§2. Before and After of the Sino-Japanese War: Established Japanese Views on Asia and Development of “Modernization” in Korea and China
§3. Before and After of the Russo-Japanese War: Colonization of Korea, Subordinating China and Rising Imperialism in Japan
§4. The Xinhai Revolution: Development and Confusion of National Revolutionary Movements in China
Chapter II In the Era of Emerging Nationalism: People’s Struggles Fighting against Colonial Rules in Asia
§1. The March 1st Movement of Korea and the May 4th Movement of China: Evolution of Anti-colonialism & Nationalism in East Asia
§2. Around the Great Kanto Earthquake: Transformation of Japan’s Society and Escalation of Aggression
§3. Reflection on the 36 Year’s Colonial Rule over the Korean Peninsula: Various Aspects of Structural Violence Brought by Japan’s Imperialism
Chapter III The Asia-Pacific War, 1931-1945: War and Peace, Domination versus Peoples’ Struggles for Liberation
§1. The Manchurian Incident and East Asia: Illusion of Puppet Empire of Manchukuo
§2. The Second Shino-Japanese War: Peoples’ War, War Crimes and Responsibility
§3. The Asia-Pacific War: Peoples’ Struggles against the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere & Collapse of Imperial Japan
Chapter IV Nation State and Civil Society in East Asia, Straying Roads for Creating “Soul of Citizenship”
§1. The Cold War and East Asia: The “Hot War,” Construction of New Nations, and the Reform and Transformation of the Japanese Society
§2. Ambivalent Development of Nation State and Civil Society in East Asia
Chapter V Wisdoms for Tomorrow, From Reprisals to Reconciliation: Spirit and Hopes as Citizens of the Emerging East Asian Community
§1. The Era of Emerging East Asian Community: Our Way of Co-existence and Wisdoms for Tomorrow
§2. Long March to the East Asian Community
Chapter VI Thinking about Ourselves in the Contemporary East Asia: Questioned from Experiences of the March 11, Fukushima and Okinawa

Editor

OKUDA Takaharu & Editorial Board of the English Version“Higashi Asia Kyodotai Eno Michi”
OKUDA Takaharu is a professor of Faculty of International Studies, Department of International Understanding, Bunkyo University. Works: Milestones of Our International Studies (Souseisha, 2019), Our Globalization Studies, Bridge for the World and Tomorrow (Souseisha, 2017), Future & Goals of Our International Studies (Shinhyoron, 2015), and many others.

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Shakespeare Performances in Japan: Intercultural-Multilingual-Translingual

Shakespeare Performances in Japan

Intercultural-Multilingual-Translingual

  • Emi HAMANA / 2019.9
  • JPY 5,500 / A4 size, softcover, 188 pages
  • bookdesign: Toshinobu NAGATA

This book is the result of three research projects: the Intercultural Performances of Shakespeare’s Plays, Intercultural Education through World Shakespeare Performances and Translingual Performances of Shakespeare Worldwide. Although these projects were closely related and built upon one another, this book is divided into two parts—Part I: Intercultural and Multilingual Performance and Part II: Translingual Performance—according to the order of their development, logical continuity and coherence. The outcomes of the critical explorations presented in Part I lead to the proposal of a challenging new field in Part II, set against the backdrop of a paradigm shift in language education and new approaches in theatre studies.
（ISBN 9784861106576）

Table of contents 

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Intercultural and Multilingual Performance
Chapter 1 This Is, and Is Not, Shakespeare: A Japanese–Korean Transformation of Othello
1. The Critical Impact of Local Shakespeare on Global Shakespeare: Othello in the Japanese Mugen Noh Style with Elements of Korean Shamanism: A Creative Subversion
2. The Critical Impact of the Japanese–Korean Adaptation of Othello on Global Shakespeare
Chapter 2 Performing Shakespeare after the 11 March 2011 Disaster: Yamanote Jijosha’s The Tempest
1. The Tempest as Prospero’s Apocalyptic Delusion
2. Caliban’s Binding and Torture on Stage
3. An Additional Japanese Ending
Chapter 3 The Last Shakespeare Plays Directed by Yukio Ninagawa: Possessed by the Power of Theatre
1. Richard II with Wheelchairs and the Tango
2. NINAGAWA (or Samurai) Macbeth: The Legendary Production Revived
3. The Two Gentlemen of Verona with an All-Male Cast
Chapter 4 Multilingual Performances of Shakespeare Worldwide: Multilingual King Lear, Directed by Tadashi Suzuki
1. Tadashi Suzuki and Multilingual Performance
2. A Short Performance History of King Lear (1984–2006), Directed by Tadashi Suzuki
3. The Four-Language Performance of King Lear (2009)
Part II Translingual Performance
Chapter 5 Translingual Performances of Shakespeare Worldwide with a Focus on Henry V
1. Fundamental Concepts and Facts
2. An Analysis of Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2
Chapter 6 Lear Dreaming, Directed by Ong Keng Sen
1. Basic Ideas of Lear Dreaming
2. An Analysis of Several Scenes in Lear Dreaming from a Translingual Perspective
Chapter 7 Safaring the Night: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Updated
1. Basic Information about Safaring the Night
2. An Analysis of Several Elements of Safaring the Night from a Translingual Perspective
Conclusion
Appendix: Performance Review: Sandaime Richard, written by Hideki Noda and directed by Ong Keng Sen. Performed in Japanese, English and Indonesian, with Japanese and English Subtitles.
Notes
Works Cited
List of Original Publications
Author Profile
Index

Author

Emi HAMANA
PhD, Professor Emeritus of Tsukuba University, is currently Professor of English Literature at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University. She specialises in Shakespeare studies, cultural studies and English education, focusing on multicultural, multilingual and translingual performances of Shakespeare’s plays worldwide, along with intercultural collaboration in contemporary theatre. Her current research interest concerns cognitive and digital approaches to Shakespeare. Her publications include The Wonder of Gender: Shakespeare and Gender (in Japanese; Nihon Tosho Centre, 2004) and Connecting Cultures: From Shakespeare to Contemporary Asian Theatre (in Japanese; Tsukuba UP, 2012). She has also contributed to The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, vol. 2 (Cambridge UP, 2016) and Shakespeare; His Infinite Variety (Lodz UP, 2017; to be re-published by Columbia UP, 2019), and to many academic journals. Her website is at https://emihamana.net.

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