My recent interview on Tokyo Humanities Cafe by Dr. Ayumi Koso of the National Institutes for the Humanities. The link provides entire...

We're excited to announce details of our spring "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Thursday, April 18 at 7.30pm, at our usual venue...

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

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...

We're excited to announce details of our Christmas "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Thursday, December 20th at 7.30pm, at our usual...

Thanks all for coming to THC7 last night. We are happy that it was a full-house despite the busy pre-holiday/bonenkai week. Q&A sessions...

I will give a talk "Romantic Marginality: Why Annotation Matters" on Tuesday, October 30 at 6:30 pm, as part of the Studium Generale of...

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

Thanks everyone who came out to THC 6 last night. We had a full house with 50+ people in the audience. Big shout out to the speakers too!...

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

Mark your calendars for our 6th humanities cafe - a great line-up of speakers, with talks on Kazuo Ishiguro, Aokigahara forest, poetry...

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

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

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...

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

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

Tokyo Humanities Café No. 5 (our first anniversary event!) went really well last night. Thank you all the speakers, Maho Ikeda, Marthyn...

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

Thanks to the great speakers and participants, Gothic in Japan symposium went great at Nagoya University.  I am grateful that the...