Visiting Associate Professor
HASHIMOTO Yorimitsu
Education:
- 2008
- Ph.D. University of Lancaster (U.K.)
- 1997
- M.A. University of Tokyo
- 1994
- B.A. University of Osaka
Professional Experience:
- 2009 - present
- Visiting Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- Associate Professor, School of Letters, Osaka University
- 2004 - 2009
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Yokohama National University
- 2001-2004
- Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Yokohama National University
Specialization:
Comparative Literature and Culture, British Studies
Research Interest:
Japonisme and the Yellow Peril in Britain
Major Publications:
- 2011
- "Soft Power of the Soft Art: Jiu-jitsu in the British Empire of the Early 20th Century", Shigemi Inaga (ed.), The 38th International Research Symposium: Questioning Oriental Aesthetics and Thinking: Conflicting Visions of "Asia" under the Colonial Empires.
- 2007
- Yellow Peril: Collection of British Novels 1895-1913, 7 volumes (Tokyo: Edition Synapse, 2007)
- "White Hope or Yellow Peril? : Bushido, Britain and the Raj" in David Wolff, et al. (eds.), The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective, v.2 (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp.379-402.
- 2005
- "Japanese Tea Party: Representations of Victorian Paradise and Playground in The Geisha (1896)" in John K. Walton, (ed.) Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity and Conflict (Clevedon, U.K. : Channel View, 2005), pp.104-124.
- 2003
- "Germs, Body-politics and Yellow Peril: Relocation of Britishness in The Yellow Danger", Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, 9, (2003), pp.52-66.
