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.

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