Border Crossings: The Journal of Japanese-Language Literature Studies

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 ...

SPECIAL ISSUE 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 ...

SPECIAL ISSUE 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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日本伝統文芸とモダン京城の出会い ( 14930 times )

Inkyung UM

Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2015;2(1):79-94. Published online 2015 Jun 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2015.2.1.79

If Lolita Could Tell : Echoes of Nabokov in Kazuki Sakuraba’s My Man ( 7540 times )

Rafael Vinícius Martins

Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2019;8(1):211-230. Published online 2019 Jun 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2019.8.1.211

Depictions of Japanese Children Left Behind in China through the Perspective of Japanese and Chinese Female Writers: Based on Toyoko Yamasaki’s The Son of Earth and Yan Geling’s Auntie Duohe (Tazuru) ( 6896 times )

Yuanchao SHAN

Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2018;6(1):33-48. Published online 2018 Jun 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2018.6.1.33

Localising Japanese Popular Culture in the Philippines：Transformative Translations of Japan’s Cultural Industry ( 6301 times )

Kristine Michelle L. SANTOS

Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2021;13(1):93-102. Published online 2021 Dec 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2021.13.1.93

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A Journey to Another World:The Relay Translation of Iron World ( 5852 times )

Hung-Shu CHEN

Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2016;3(1):111-130. Published online 2016 Jun 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2016.3.1.111

A Journey as a Lingual Experience:Border Transgressions in Haruo Sato’s Writing on Taiwan ( 5632 times )

Tatsuya KONO

Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2016;3(1):83-95. Published online 2016 Jun 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2016.3.1.83

The Politics of Junrei no Tabi:Shimazaki Tōson and the Formation of a Zone of Political Contact in South America ( 5616 times )

Erina OKA

Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2016;3(1):35-50. Published online 2016 Jun 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2016.3.1.35

The Woman in the Dunes as Border Crossings:Abe Kobo, T.S. Eliot, and Paul Bowles ( 5609 times )

Kenji OBA

Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2016;3(1):63-81. Published online 2016 Jun 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2016.3.1.63

A Report on the Taiwan Symposium of the Third Forum for East Asia and Contemporary Japanese Literature ( 5574 times )

Tsuyoshi NAMIGATA

Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2016;3(1):217-218. Published online 2016 Jun 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2016.3.1.217

Orikuchi Shinobu's "Korean" Representation: I Feel Like Wanting to be a Korean ( 5572 times )

Shimpei NAGAI

Bord Crossings J Jpn Lang Lit Study. 2018;6(1):113-129. Published online 2018 Jun 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2018.6.1.113

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