SINGLE FRAME HEROICS: YOSHIMOTO BANANA AND CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE

I completed my PhD on Yoshimoto Banana and contemporary Japanese literature at Swinburne University of Technology in 2009. I want to use this blog to post notes about Yoshimoto Banana and other aspects of Japanese culture that interest me.

Sunday, September 25, 2022

THE 'RETIREMENT' OF YOSHIMOTO BANANA AND THE RISE OF A NEW GENERATION...

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PART ONE: YOSHIMOTO BANA AND THE 'NEW BREED' There has been a generational change in Japanese literature. In 2021 Banana Yoshimoto p...

Saturday, December 5, 2020

FICTION AND FUROSHA: VISIBILITY IN JAPAN

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Arriving in Japan during the period of the bubble economy, in the 1980s, I was struck by the technology and the fast pace of life. I had a...

Saturday, May 2, 2020

BACK TO FEUDALISM

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In the land of the of the Rising Sun people are facing the spectre of No Future. After two and and fifty years of isolation in the pre-mod...

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

SAYAKA MURATA'S 'CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN'

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The idea of someone working in a convenience and finding this is the place where they feel most comfortable is a revelation. Going to Jap...

OSONAE

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A big lipsticked face appears In front of your eyes, Your ears twitch But you remain resigned. The face buries itself in your fur, It...

Sunday, January 20, 2019

YOSHIMOTO BANANA AND ME

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'NEW WAYS OF BEING' : WHY YOSHIMOTO BANANA MATTERS FROM AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE When I first read Yoshimoto Banana"s 'K...

Saturday, November 24, 2018

SUKITA MASAYOSHI: THE SHOOT MUST GO ON

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The Japanese film festival is on again and this year one of the highlights is the documentary The Shoot Must Go On about the eighty ye...

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