Japan in Australia

Dr David Chapman is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland in Australia. His research interests include history, identity and citizenship. He is the author of The Bonin Islanders 1830 to the Present: Narrating Japanese Nationality (2016), coauthor of Koseki, Identification and Documentation: Japan’s Household Registration System and Citizenship (Routledge 2014) and author of Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity (Routledge 2007).Dr Carol Hayes is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Studies in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Her research interests include literature, identity and language teaching methodologies and practice. She is the author of ‘Sashiko Needlework Reborn: From Functional Technology to Decorative Art’ (Japanese Studies 2019) and ‘Women Writing Women: "A Woman’s Place" in Modern Japanese Women’s Poetry’ (JSOA 2016), and coauthor of Reading Embraced by Australia: Oosutoraria ni Idakarete (2016).

• List of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgementsList of contributorsPrologue: Celebrating Japan in AustraliaALAN RIX1 Japan in Australia, an introductionDAVID CHAPMAN AND CAROL HAYES2 Youthful first impressions: Tsurumi Kazuko and Shunsuke in Australia, 1937TOMOKO AOYAMA3 Forging an Australian artistic modernity: how Japanese woodblock prints informed Margaret Preston’s early paintings and printsPENNY BAILEY4 Japan-Australia friendship through bat and ball: the Yomiuri Giants’ baseball tour of Australia in 1954AI KOBAYASHI5 Japan at the 1956 Melbourne OlympicsMORRIS LOW6 Japanese sleeping beauties abroad: Australian retellings of Kawabata Yasunari’s fairy-tale novellaLUCY FRASER7 The irrepressible magic of Monkey: how a Japanese television drama depicting an ancient Chinese tale became compulsory after-school viewing in AustraliaREBECCA HAUSLER8 Nikkei Australian identity and the work of Mayu KanamoriTIMOTHY KAZUO STEAINS9 Trans-Asian engagement with Japan in/and AustraliaKOICHI IWABUCHI10 The Australian literary scene and Murakami Haruki: Nobel laureate heir apparent or marketing overhype?LAURA EMILY CLARK11 Why introductory Japanese? An Australian case studyCHIHIRO KINOSHITA THOMSON12 Mobility and Children Crossing BordersIKUO KAWAKAMICodaROGER PULVERSOn the streets of our townVERA MACKIEIndex