Peer-reviewed articles and selected writing, with links to PDF.

Peer-reviewed articles

Urban space, public memory, and historical consciousness

“Western Elegance, Yokohama Style: College Fashion, Urban Redevelopment, and the Rise of Feminine Motomachi in Post-1970 Japan.”
U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal 65 (2024): 25–55.
Themes: urban redevelopment; gender; fashion; consumption; local history.
Links: DOI / PDF

“A Lesson in Port Citizenship: Regimes of Historicity in Maritime Museums in Yokohama, Japan, 1961–Present.”
História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography 16, no. 41 (2023): 1–29.
Themes: museums; public history; temporality; citizenship; maritime history.
Links: DOI / PDF

“Global History in Two Chronotopes: Time, Identity, and the Practical Past in Nagasaki, Japan, 1990 and 2006.”
Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 27, no. 2 (2023): 312–339.
Themes: historiography; temporality; identity; heritage; global history.
Links: DOI / PDF

Multiculturalism, race, and transnational representation

“The Limits of Humanism: On the Discursive Construction of the Japanese ‘Chinatown.’”
positions: asia critique 33, no. 4 (2025): 815–840.
Themes: race; discourse; urban space; capitalism; overseas Chinese.
Links: DOI / PDF

“Multiculturalism between Ideology and Practice: Immigrant Self-Narrations of Community Activism in Toyota, Japan.”
With Mariana Alonso Ishihara. Contemporary Japan 37, no. 1 (2025): 88–109.
Themes: multiculturalism; migration; community activism; ideology; urban society.
Links: DOI / PDF

“The Politics of Curating Japonisme: International Art Exhibition and Soft Power in Contemporary Japanese Cultural Diplomacy.”
Journal of Japonisme 8, no. 1 (2023): 31–66.
Themes: cultural diplomacy; exhibitions; soft power; aesthetics; Japonisme.
Links: DOI / PDF

Media platforms and popular narrative

“Japanese Web Novels: Media History, Platform, and Narrative.”
With Ichishi Iida. Mechademia: Second Arc 17, no. 2 (2025): 150–167.
Themes: media history; platforms; narrative; popular culture; East Asian comparison.
Links: Published version / PDF

“Fantasies of Europe, Fantasies of Japan: Isekai and the Narrative Logic of Japanese Occidentalism.”
East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 9, no. 2 (2023): 281–297.
Themes: popular culture; Occidentalism; narrative form; fantasy; modern Japan.
Links: DOI / PDF

Preprints and other writing

“An Off-Centre Pendulum: Neo-Japonisme and Contemporary French Identity in Michaël Ferrier’s Sympathy for the Phantom.”
SocArXiv, 2024.
Themes: neo-Japonisme; French identity; literature; cultural translation.
Links: DOI / PDF

“Towards a Gendered Procedural Rhetoric: Simulating Feminine Domesticity in the Atelier Role-Playing Game Series.”
SocArXiv, 2024.
Themes: game studies; gender; domesticity; procedural rhetoric; Japanese media.
Links: DOI / PDF