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ESSAYS – THE WORDS OF BOARD CROSSINGS
‘Solaris’ by Angelm Kiefer and ‘In Praise of Shadows’ by Junichiro Tanizaki
Anselm Kiefer is a representative of neo-expressionism that emerged in the 1970s. He depicted the horrors of war and the pain of survival through paintings. He was inspired by the Japanese aesthetics of Tanizaki, who delicately expressed the subtle ...
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The Postwar Reconfiguration of the Western Genre in Yamakawa Soji’s Koya no Shonen
This paper investigates how Yamakawa Soji’s illustrated story, Koya no Shonen (1952 -1955), reconfigures the American Western genre within the sociocultural landscape of early postwar Japan. Situated amid the influx of Hollywood films and American ...
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Recording Disasters ：Focusing on the Adaptations of Haruki Murakami’s Drive My Car and After the Quake
This year, the TV drama After the Earthquake produced by NHK was adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story collection After the Quake. It was co-created by the production team of the Oscar-winning film Drive My Car. Both works are set against the ...
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Essays – The wordses of Board Crossings
4 Thinking of Cassandra：Coming and going between the Humanities and Sciences
Sakai SHUICHI
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):4-6.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.4
      
7 ‘Solaris’ by Angelm Kiefer and ‘In Praise of Shadows’ by Junichiro Tanizaki
In HWANG
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):7-11.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.7
      
Special Issues
15 The Postwar Reconfiguration of the Western Genre in Yamakawa Soji’s Koya no Shonen
Shogo SUGIMOTO
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):15-29.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.15
      
31 Recording Disasters ：Focusing on the Adaptations of Haruki Murakami’s Drive My Car and After the Quake
Yan LIU
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):31-47.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.31
      
49 Reenacting Border-Crossing Narratives of the Japan–Korea Annexation Era & Transnational Adaptation of “Japanophone” Literature ：From Pak Yol to the Pachinko Phenomenon
Andre HAAG
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):49-67.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.49
      
69 Hunchback, the Winner of Akutagawa Prize in 2023 ：Delivery of the Satire and Aspiration Regarding Barrier-Free Issues in the Indonesian Translation Version
Wiastiningsih
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):69-90.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.69
      
91 The Adaptation of Haiku in Taiwan ：Huang Ling-zhi’s Strategy in Taiwan Haiku Saijiki
Uenia JUAN
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):91-109.   Published online 2025 Dec 31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.91
      
111 Kadokawa Films’ Combined Media Strategy and the Adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo’s Work ：Focusing on Kon Ichikawa’s The Inugami Family (1976)
Hyosun KIM
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):111-128.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.111
      
129 Recontextualizing the Allegorical Spirit in Yukio Mishima’s Beautiful Star ：From the 1962 Novel to the 2017 Film Adaptation
Kahyun LEE
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):129-144.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.129
      
Articles
147 On Abe Kobo’s “Dendrocacalia”：Plant Disease and Power
Kan ITOGA
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):147-163.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.147
      
165 The Fragmented Subjectivity：Transformations and Meanings of First-Person Expressions in Yi Sang’s Japanese Poetry
Donghee KIM
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):165-180.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.165
      
181 “Mixed Blood” and “Pure Heart”：Hybridity in Almayer’s Folly and Nihonjin Oin
Anna SHIMOMURA
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):181-208.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.181
      
209 Soldiers Appreciating the Moon, Snow, and Flowers：The Reimagining of “Fūryū” during the Sino-Japanese War
Ke XU
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):209-228.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.209
      
229 Negotiating National Allegory and the I-Novel Form ：Lee Hoe-sung’s Kinuta o Utsu Onna
Goeun CHOI
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):229-246.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.229
      
247 Embodied Memories of Occupation ：Female Violence and Queer Imagination in Numa Shozo’s Yapoo, the Human Cattle
Yi-fan CHEN
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):247-264.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.247
      
265 Idogawa Iko “Konoyo no Yorokobi yo”：The Power and Dialogicity of the Second-Person Gaze
Hiu FUJII
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):265-284.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.265
      
Research Materials
285 Translation and Publication of World Literature in Postwar Taiwanese Newspapers and Magazines ：Focusing on the Literary Section of the Japanese Edition of the China Daily News
Yuhui LEE
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):285-298.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.285
      
299 The Delayed Cold War in Postwar Japan and Its Literary Symptoms：A Report from the Shin Nihon Bungaku Reading Group
Sua CHO, Buil HONG, Selki NOH
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):299-316.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.299
      
Book Reviews
317 The Publishing Empire and War：A Cultural History of the Unruly
Dongju SEO
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):317-319.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.317
      
320 The Historical Research of Modern Japanese Literary Studies：Theories of the Transitional Period and a Chinese Perspective
Yameng ZHANG
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):320-323.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.320
      
324 Jewels, Resonating：Reading Taiwan Literature as Polyphony
Uenia JUAN
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):324-326.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.324
      
327 Digital Humanities and Japanese Culture
Jaemin SHIN
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):327-330.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.327
      
331 Digital Humanities Opens up Humanities：Dialogue between Japanese and Korean Researchers
Hiroki YONEYAMA
Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2025;21(1):331-333.   Published online 2025 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2025.21.1.331
      
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