The new issue of Transcommunication (vol. 9, no. 2) is now available at the Waseda University Depository. Its featured section titled “COVID-19 and Japanese (and Other) Studies” includes the following essays:
Aaron Gerow (Yale University), “COVID-19 and Belonging in the Place of Japanese Studies”
Phil Kaffen (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte), “Disciplines and Distance”
Daisuke Miyao (University of California, San Diego), “What We’ve Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate?: Facing Forward to the Future of Japanese Cinema Studies”
Kenta Kato (Waseda University), “A Matter of Choice: The Discipline of Interdisciplinary Programs and Japanese Cinema Studies”
Zakir Hossain Raju (Independent University, Bangladesh), “Towards Japanese Studies… through COVID-19: A Chronicle”
Shigeko Mato (Waseda University), “A Stream of Thought on Disorientation”
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (Waseda University), “COVID-19 and the University: The End of Internationalization as a Collective Fantasy”
Click here to read the entire issue.
