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...

A monster created by a scientist wreaks destruction.  A black cat exacts revenge for a forgotten murder.  A curse is cast on...

I am invited to give two special lectures "Why read annotation?" and "What can British cinema teach us about the country’s political and...

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