Recipients of our Japan Study Grants, funded by Harold S Williams Trust Fund. The program supports scholars researching on Japan and requiring special access to the Library’s Japanese and Japan related collections.
2017
Ms Laura Clark, researching on 'Comparing Japanese and English-language theoretical constructions of Japanese masculinities'
Dr Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, with her research topic on ‘
Japanese Soldiers Migrant Experiences – through the ATIS Interrogation Reports’.
2016
Visualising Imperialism: Japan and its ‘Exterior Territories’ 1900 – 1945
A/Prof Tomoko Aoyama, School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Queensland
Tsurumi Kazuko and Shunsuke in Australia, 1937
Dr Lucy Fraser, Lecturer in Japanese, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland
Animal-Human Interactions in Japanese Tales Retold: Retelling Takizawa Bakin’s Dog-Human Interactions in Sakuraba Kazuki’s Fuse: A Counterfeit Eight Dog Chronicles
Ms Mayu Kanamori, independent scholar, photographer and script writer, Sydney
Japanese Women in Australia
Dr Helen Kilpatrick, Senior Lecturer, Japanese in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong
We even went out clubbing after he was wheelchair-bound and could no longer walk. He was a right character and had a great sense of humour.
Pete on his 80th birthday Vanessa said her dad had owned more than 2,000 records and she had found all kinds of treasures in his flat after he moved into a nursing home in 2018, including pieces of artwork and poetry she had never seen. She said: He was very talented. A lot of his art work was sea-themed and he loved the West Pier. He did an amazing drawing of it and would make art out of driftwood.