Ella Johnson
“I like to dance when I am cutting into the woodblock images of dancers. I feel that I am doing...
Tess Eastgate
The importance of free time and calm spaces has been frequently emphasised in recent times, often against the backdrop of...
Louis Thomas
Image credit: Louis Thomas- Description-A plate of sushi Until recently, I foolishly assumed that once you go beyond Oxford Castle...
James Ashworth
I’m a big fan of Wes Anderson’s work, I won’t lie. Bearing that in mind, I approached the cinema for...
Scott Harker
Over the summer, I was given the opportunity to visit both China and Japan, as a first-time visitor in both...
Scott Harker and Sam Sykes
Towards the end of Trinity term 2016, the two of us received a slightly strange email to the OxStu Editor...
Sam Sykes
On the 11th March 2011 at 14:46 JST, an earthquake struck Japan off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, in...
Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe
In a bid to put my English degree to good use and rekindle my love affair with East Asia, in...
Yuki Numata
If you’ve ever been to Japan, you might have noticed that the country places a strong emphasis on its four...
Beth Hibbert
This weekend the Pitt Rivers Museum’s most recent special exhibition, Surviving Tsunami, has closed. The exhibition featured visual material from an on-going...
James Ashworth
Late last year, the Japanese government’s chief spokesperson announced that the country will restart its commercial whaling program in July...
Francesca Whitfield
Image Credit: Hannah Kentridge Hannah Kentridge is a 21-year-old, 4th year undergraduate at Pembroke College, Oxford, studying Oriental Studies and...
James Ashworth
The infamous capsule hotel. Everyone’s heard of those little pods into which people cram themselves in an effort to save...
Sam Sykes
Noise, light, energy. The skyscrapers shimmer with neon and exuberant sky-high manga figures; the streets resound with the cheerful...
Mayu Noda
In politics, human life ironically seems to be of little interest; the response of the USA and Japan to the...
Scott Harker
When I arrived in the far northern Japanese town of Teshio, I was initially struck by two things: one was...
James Riding
If you grew up some time between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, chances are you remember watching a particular...
Beth Lambert
There is a popular phrase in Japan called “the nail that sticks out its head gets hammered”, a mantra enforcing...
“Think of all the tales you’re going to discover…” Arriving on the B-T stage this 7th week is ‘As I...
