Faculty

Visiting Research Fellows

Alistair David SWALE
Specialized Field(s)	Cultural History of Meiji and Taishō Japan, Popular Culture
Current Research Themes	The Transition from Meiji to Taishō Examined Through Popular Culture and the Career of Miyatake Gaikotsu
Keywords for Research	Meiji, Taisho, popular culture, Miyatakegaikotsu

2000	Ph.D., Graduate School of Law, Law Faculty, Kyoto University

2007	Senior Lecturer, Waikato university
2019	Associate Professor, Canterbury University
2022	Visiting Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2026	Visiting Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

2000	Ph.D., Kyoto University

Books

・ A Cultural History of Late Meiji Japan: Empire and Decadence, , Springer, 2023
・ Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the ‘Post-Cinematic’ Imagination, Palgrave (UK), 2015
・ The Meiji Restoration: Monarchism, Mass Communication and Conservative Revolution, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
・ The Political Thought of Mori Arinori; A Study in Meiji Conservatism, Japan Library, 2000

Co-authored Books

Articles

・ Gesaku and the renegotiation of ‘Civilization and Enlightenment’ through Illustrated News, Japan Forum Vol. 34, No. 5, 2022, pp.568-600
・ Public Speaking and Serialized Novels: Kōdan and Social Movements in Early Meiji Tokyo, Japanese Studies Vol. 41, No. 3, 2021, pp.343-360
・ Anime and the Conquest of Time: Memory, Fantasy, and the “Time-Image” fromGhost in the Shell to Your Name, Japan Review No. 35, 2020, pp.199-218
・ Memory and Forgetting: Examining the Treatment of Traumatic Historical Memory in Grave of the Fireflies and The Wind Rises, Japan Forum Vol. 29 (4), 2017, pp.518-536
・ Miyazaki Hayao and the Aesthetics of Imagination: Nostalgia and Memory in Spirited Away, Asian Studies Review Vol. 39(3), 2015, pp.413-429

Other Publications