Outputs (106)

Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present (2025)
Book
Cervelli, F. (2025). Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003472384

This book analyzes the theme of immediacy and the supremacy of the present in contemporary Japanese fiction. Examining immediacy in literary works by a diverse body of authors and works in popular culture released during the major social and economic... Read More about Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present.

Review of: 'Presence Through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia' edited by Keith Howard and Catherine Ingram, SOAS Studies in Music Series, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020 (2025)
Journal Article
Hughes, D. W., & Barnes, G. L. (online). Review of: 'Presence Through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia' edited by Keith Howard and Catherine Ingram, SOAS Studies in Music Series, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020. Musicology Australia, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/08145857.2024.2420291

Fostering Global Innovation: Strategies for Japanese Entrepreneurs and Business Ecosystems (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Yoshida, K. Fostering Global Innovation: Strategies for Japanese Entrepreneurs and Business Ecosystems. London

This paper explores strategies for fostering global innovation among Japanese entrepreneurs by addressing key challenges within Japan's entrepreneurial environment. The prolonged economic stagnation, commonly referred to as the "Lost Decades," has co... Read More about Fostering Global Innovation: Strategies for Japanese Entrepreneurs and Business Ecosystems.

Decloaking whiteness: Linguistic and pedagogical imperialisms of International Baccalaureate teacher education in Japan (2024)
Journal Article
Shah, A. (2025). Decloaking whiteness: Linguistic and pedagogical imperialisms of International Baccalaureate teacher education in Japan. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 56(2), Article e12537. https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12537

This article examines everyday International Baccalaureate Educator Certificate (IBEC) environments in Japanese higher education through a theoretical framework of whiteness. Exploring dissonances shaped by English and constructivism at two universit... Read More about Decloaking whiteness: Linguistic and pedagogical imperialisms of International Baccalaureate teacher education in Japan.

Global Innovation Driven by Japanese Entrepreneurs: Lessons from the U.S. and U.K. Ecosystems (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Tanimura, S., & Yoshida, K. Global Innovation Driven by Japanese Entrepreneurs: Lessons from the U.S. and U.K. Ecosystems. London

This paper analyzes the key factors contributing to the success of Japanese entrepreneurs in global markets, focusing on case studies of Glasp Inc. in the United States and Pointblank Promotions Ltd. in the United Kingdom. While Japan has been leadin... Read More about Global Innovation Driven by Japanese Entrepreneurs: Lessons from the U.S. and U.K. Ecosystems.

Liberty, the 'Maria Luz' Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes (2024)
Journal Article
Mihalopoulos, B. (online). Liberty, the 'Maria Luz' Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes. Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae022

While covering the same ground as recent scholarship on the emancipatory potential of the Maria Luz incident, this article takes a radical departure, arguing that the background to the incident was British desire to disrupt the Macao trade in Chinese... Read More about Liberty, the 'Maria Luz' Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes.

Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations (2024)
Journal Article
Deacon, C. (2024). Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations. International Studies Quarterly, 68(3), Article sqae114. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqae114

Why does contentious history play such an outsized role in some international relationships? Why do these “history wars” endure, overriding incentives to reconcile? Despite their demonstrable importance, history wars have generally been neglected by... Read More about Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations.

Dragon Ball, Japan and the World: The Legacy of Akira Toriyama (2024)
Digital Artefact
Cervelli, F. Dragon Ball, Japan and the World: The Legacy of Akira Toriyama

Dr Filippo Cervelli looks back on the work of late Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama and its great cultural impact in touching the hearts of many across the world and contributing decisively to Japan’s global image.

"Resonating Across Oceanic Currents" Special Edition Editorial (2024)
Journal Article
Asaba, Y., & Kasai, A. (2024). "Resonating Across Oceanic Currents" Special Edition Editorial. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 10(1), 7-12. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00121_2

Preoccupied with the historical contradictions of seawater as manifested in the early to mid-twentieth century popular music history surrounding Japan, the Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Resonating Across Oceanic Currents: Maritime Histories of... Read More about "Resonating Across Oceanic Currents" Special Edition Editorial.

Tango, Emotion, and Transculturality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2024)
Book Chapter
Asaba, Y. (2024). Tango, Emotion, and Transculturality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. In K. Wendland, & K. Link (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Tango (314-330). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974936.019

A Study on the Innovation Capabilities of Transnational Entrepreneurs (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Yoshida, K. A Study on the Innovation Capabilities of Transnational Entrepreneurs. London

This research presents the following research questions. First, what kind of "Japanese entrepreneur image" can bring out Japan's predominance in the global society? In Japan, there are only a few innovators who break away from conventional methods, b... Read More about A Study on the Innovation Capabilities of Transnational Entrepreneurs.

Examining global innovation creation and entrepreneurship in migrant entrepreneurs: The case of the Jem Group Founder, UK (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Yoshida, K. Examining global innovation creation and entrepreneurship in migrant entrepreneurs: The case of the Jem Group Founder, UK. London

This paper explored the relationship between the entrepreneurship and the local innovation creation of migrant entrepreneurs, focusing on the Jem Group, a company that has existed in the United Kingdom for 50 years, and the life of Tetsuro Hama, a Ja... Read More about Examining global innovation creation and entrepreneurship in migrant entrepreneurs: The case of the Jem Group Founder, UK.

A Study on Global Innovation Creation and Long-Term Management by Immigrant Entrepreneurs (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Yoshida, K. A Study on Global Innovation Creation and Long-Term Management by Immigrant Entrepreneurs. London

This paper explores the factors that enable so-called “immigrant entrepreneurs” to achieve sustainable long-term business development in overseas markets through a case study of a pioneering immigrant entrepreneur in the United Kingdom. The research... Read More about A Study on Global Innovation Creation and Long-Term Management by Immigrant Entrepreneurs.

Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan (2023)
Journal Article
Deacon, C. (2023). Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan. European Journal of International Relations, 29(4), 1041-1065. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661221143925

The broad agenda of ontological security scholarship in International Relations is to examine states’ (in)security of Self-identity and the implications for their international conduct. While ontological security may be an illusory goal, states vary... Read More about Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan.

Japan's 'history problem' lingers on after Abe (2022)
Digital Artefact
Deacon, C. (2022). Japan's 'history problem' lingers on after Abe

Mindless happiness: presentism, utopia and dystopian suspension of thought in Psycho-Pass (2022)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F. (online). Mindless happiness: presentism, utopia and dystopian suspension of thought in Psycho-Pass. Japan Forum, https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2021.1942137

Contemporary Japanese popular culture is particularly rich in representations of utopian social imaginations that often reveal dystopian scenarios. The anime series Psycho-Pass (2012–2013), especially, is overtly aware of its everyday utopia, and of... Read More about Mindless happiness: presentism, utopia and dystopian suspension of thought in Psycho-Pass.

The Lonely Nerd (2022)
Other
(2022). The Lonely Nerd. Warwick

This is the twenty-second issue of Exchanges, published in August 2022. This is our fourth special issue focussing on cultural experiences around the theme of the lonely nerd. Developed in collaboration with scholars from the Universities of Oxford a... Read More about The Lonely Nerd.

Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in Summer Wars (2022)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F. (2022). Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in Summer Wars. Exchanges (Coventry), 9(3), 203-225. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.887

This article analyses Hosoda Mamoru’s anime film Summer Wars (2009) through its rearticulation of the lonely male otaku. A highly debated issue in and outside of Japan, the otaku community of fans shares with nerds associations with obsessive interes... Read More about Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in Summer Wars.

Socially Inept? The perceived loneliness of nerds (2022)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F., & Schaper, B. (2022). Socially Inept? The perceived loneliness of nerds. Exchanges (Coventry), 9(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.946

This introduction establishes the main perspectives of the special issue on the relationship between loneliness and nerds. We argue that the stereotype of the lonely nerd is becoming increasingly reductive in the technological age at the turn of the... Read More about Socially Inept? The perceived loneliness of nerds.

(Re)producing the ‘history problem’: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute (2022)
Journal Article
Deacon, C. (2022). (Re)producing the ‘history problem’: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute. The Pacific Review, 35(5), 789-820. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2021.1897652

Japan-South Korea relations have consistently been presented by International Relations scholars as a puzzle that confounds mainstream rationalist theories, which struggle to explain the consistent acrimony associated with the so-called ‘history prob... Read More about (Re)producing the ‘history problem’: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute.