Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
Room 204, Hall of Wisdom
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Japanese Studies  •  Southeast Asian Studies  •  Cultural Studies  •  Identity and Culture  •  Cross-Cultural Studies
 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Journal Articles

2023. “Philippine-Japan Relations: Friends with Benefits.” Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia 34. 

2018. “Japanese Popular Culture and its Re-definition from the Peripheries.” Orientaliska Studier 156 (2018). 28 – 37.

2017. “Revisiting Japanese Studies in Southeast Asia.” Border Crossing: The Journal of Japanese-Language Literature Studies 5 (1). 137 – 49.

2015. “Boy meets World: the Worldview of Shōnen Kurabu in the 1930s.” Japan Forum 28 (1): 74–98..

2005. “The Stories They Tell: Komik Strips during the Japanese Occupation Period of the Philippines, 1942-44.” Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 53 (1): 59 – 90.

EDUCATION & RESEARCH

Education & Research

    • AB in Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology and History), Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, 2001
    • MA in Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2005
    • D. Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, 2010

Courses Taught

    • AS 221 Modern Japanese Texts
    • AS 234 Special Topics: Northeast Asia (History in/with/from Comics)
    • Int Jap A Elementary Japanese
    • Int Jap B Intermediate Japanese
 
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