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  YOSHIDA Kaori
   Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Studies
   Position   Professor
■ Education
1. 〔Doctorial Course〕 Comparative studies of Asian and North American Popular Culture, Graduate School Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Completed
2. 〔Master Course〕, Graduate School Communications Studies, University of Calgary, Completed
3. 〔Master Course〕, Graduate School Division of Language Education, Fukuoka University of Education, Completed
■ Academic and professional experience
1. Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Studies Professor
■ Message
Message to undergraduate students: The nature of globalization will change over time. In order to meet these changes, I encourage you to make use of APU’s multicultural environment, study hard, open your mind to different cultures, and strive to become a global citizen. Message to graduate school students: Besides advancing their research, I also encourage domestic students to expose themselves to the multicultural environment in order to become a scholar with multifaceted views. To international students: please learn about Japan, old and new, through your classes and by seeing the country.
■ Current specialized field
Media and cultural studies, Gender studies, Japanese popular culture (Key Word:Media and cultural studies, popular culture, visual media, gender studies, memory studies) 
■ Books and theses
1. 2022/05 Article War-Themed Shōjo Manga as a Site for Female Subjectivity: An Aesthetic Analysis of Mothers and Daughters Narrating War US-Japan Women's Journal 61,pp.76-97 (Collaboration)  Link
2. 2022/04 Article "Ambivalent Female Bodies: A Place for Feminine War Memory in Japan" Electronic journal of contemporary Japanese studies (ejcjs) 22(1) (Single)  Link
3. 2019/04 Book Chapter 7 "Mediating Otome in the Discourse of War Memory: Complexity of Memory-making through Postwar Japanese War Films" Shōjo across Media: Exploring Popular Sites of “Girl” Discourse in Japan.  pp.155-179 (Single) 
4. 2018/09 Article Art as peace education at “dark” museums and sites in UK, Europe and South East Asia Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 6(1),pp.1-9 (Collaboration) 
5. 2018/03 Book “Heritage Landscape of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Tourism and Heritage: Networks, Communities and the Digital Age in the series Landscape and Heritage, Chapter 3  pp.55-75 (Collaboration) 
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■ Academic or professional association memberships
1. 2019~ Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies
2. 2015/04~ Cultural Typhoon
3. 2011/06 Asian Studies Conference Japan
4. 2009/11 International Association for Asia Pacific Studies
5. 2008/08 The Association for Japanese Literary Studies
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■ Conference presentations
1. 2022/12/04 "Haunting Memories from the Battlefield: Analysis of the Grotesque in War Manga" (AP Conference 2022)
2. 2022/07/02 "Narrating the war from the margin: women’s embodied narratives in Japanese war fictions" (ASCJ (ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN) 2022)
3. 2022/03/05 “(Re)memorizing WWII across boundaries: An Analysis of Young Visitors of Japan’s Educational Tourism (shūgaku ryokō) in Okinawa” (International Workshop on Development of Community Development and Sustainable Tourism Programs in Natural Heritage Sites)
4. 2021/12/05 “Educational Tourism in Japan (shūgaku ryokō) as A Contact Zone for Rememoration of WWII” (AP Conference)
5. 2021/10/09 “Educational Tourism as a Narrative Space for Contested Memories of WWII: The Analysis of Young Visitors' Experience of War Heritage Sites in Okinawa” (WCAAS Annual Conference (WESTERN CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES))
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■ Research topic, funded research and KAKENHI
1. 2020  Uncovering the black-box of educational dark tourism: Comparative analysis of the mechanisms of packaging and perceiving of war narratives through war heritage sites between former enemies  (Key Word : )
2. 2019  Uncovering the black-box of educational dark tourism: Comparative analysis of the mechanisms of packaging and perceiving of war narratives through war heritage sites between former enemies  (Key Word : )
3. 2018  Uncovering the black-box of educational dark tourism: Comparative analysis of the mechanisms of packaging and perceiving of war narratives through war heritage sites between former enemies  (Key Word : )
4. 2017  The potential of war heritage sites as educational and touristic attractions in Japan: comparative studies with five relevant countries  (Key Word : )
5. 2016  The potential of war heritage sites as educational and touristic attractions in Japan: comparative studies with five relevant countries  (Key Word : )
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■ Awards and honors
1. 2008/08 Canada Dissertation Award nomination
■ Educational ability
● Practice example of education method
1. 2016/11/23 Graduate School SC Division Joint Presentation Forum
● Announcement concerning education
1. 2016/11/17 Introduction to APS lecture (Pilot version) (session for CSM cluster)
● Matter that should be mentioned specially in others educational activity
1. 2016/11/10~2016/11/22 Joined the Graduate School GSA Guidance session (for application to GSA)
■ Professional contribution to Society
1. 2012/10~2012/10 Oita University Center for International Education & Research Seminar Series "“Gendered construction of war memories through postwar Japanese media”