Japanese Studies Centre Monographs
Unexpected encounters: neglected histories behind the Australia-Japan relationship
edited by Michael Ackland and Pam Oliver 2007, $34.95 ISBN 978 1 876924 50 8
Telling the personal stories of Australians in Japan and Japanese in Australia, this book explores issues of race, identity and ambition in times of war and peace. The essays collected here illuminate a variety of fascinating lives and individual achievements, from trade to literature and the arts, the media and the justice system.
Women in medieval Japan
Haruko Wakita, translated by Alison Tokita 2006, $29.95, ISBN 978 1 876924 45 4
This book demonstrates the diversity of women's lives in this dynamic yet troubled period of Japanese history. Wakita explores the work of nuns, household managers, merchants, vendors, potters, prostitutes, entertainers and women at court, to show that women located in the medieval household-the ie-and those outside it had very different experiences and degrees of autonomy.
Changing histories: Australia and Japan
Edited by Paul Jones and Pam Oliver, 2001, $29.95, ISBN 0 7926 1196 2
The history of contact between Japan and Australia is rich in literature, business, romance and war. Challenging the notion that these two nations have long been culturally isolated, this volume brings out the diversity of their relationship. The topics covered in detail include Japanese business interests in Sydney from the 19th century, the broken ideals of Australian literary figures who chose to live in Japan, the role of Australian forces in post-war Occupation, and rapidly changing countries assessing one another in a serious and respectful manner.
Japanese Communities, Cultures, Critiques
Papers of the tenth Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia. Series editors Vera Mackie, Alina Skoutarides and Alison Tokita.
Volumes 1 to 4 are books. Volumes 5 and 6 are collections of working papers.
Volume 1: Re-mapping Japanese culture
2000, $21.95, ISBN 0 7326 1184 9
Volume 2: Identity politics and critiques in contemporary Japan
2000, $21.95, ISBN 0 7326 1185 7
Volume 3: Coloniality, postcoloniality and modernity in Japan
2000, $21.95, ISBN 0 7326 1186 5
Volume 4: New directions in Japanese linguistics
2000, $27.50, ISBN 0 7326 1187 3