My piece on the fabulous Tokyo Poetry Journal "Rebel Poets Against the Machine: An interview with Tokyo Poetry Journal editors Jeffrey Johnson, Taylor Mignon...

My interview with embroidery artist Alison Carpenter-Hughes is out.

My review of On the Bullet Train With Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan by Judith Pascoe is out on the latest issue of Kyoto Journal.

My review of British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason by Timothy Michael is out in the latest issue of The Byron Journal.

Thanks to Prof. Steve Clark at University of Tokyo, Laurence and I will be giving this book launch talk on British Romanticism in Asia on Saturday, June 15. ...

E-book format of British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia (for the whole boo...

My new review of "Tokyo Romance" by Ian Buruma is published in Kyoto Journal No. 93.

I am pleased to announce Dr. Laurence Williams (Sophia University) and my new co-edited collection, British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, ...

My new article "Have Something to Say: Masahiko Abe on the University of Tokyo’s rejection of the Japanese Education Ministry’s English Examination Reforms" ...

My review of "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee, originally published in Kyoto Journal No. 89 (January 2018), has been reproduced on their official website.

Education material on TES "British Gothic Monsters in East Asian Culture: Ideas to Kick-start Reading and Viewing" by Sarah Olive and me (originally created ...

Very thrilled to announce of the new “Asia-Pacific and Literature in English” Series with Palgrave Macmillan, co-edited with Shun-liang Chao, Steve Clark, Tr...

My new book review of "Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone" by Richard Lloyd Parry is published in Kyoto Journal #91.

My new article 'The Hungry Fox: An interview with BJ Fox, star of Japanese television sitcom "Home Sweet Tokyo"' is just published on Wall Street International.

Two of my book reviews are published in  The Byron Journal 46.1. Review of William Christie, The Two Romanticisms, and Other Essays: Mystery and Interpretati...

My new article "Faking it for real: My Shinto wedding" is out on Wall Street International.

"Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry" edited by Michael Edson (University of Wyoming) is now released (Publisher | Amazon Japan | Amazon US | Amazon UK) ...