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Entertainment
·4th June 2019

Lifelines: The woodcuts of Naoko Matsubara at the Ashmolean

Ella Johnson
“I like to dance when I am cutting into the woodblock images of dancers. I feel that I am doing...
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Culture
·14th December 2018

Useful emptiness: conceptualisation of space in Japanese art

Tess Eastgate
The importance of free time and calm spaces has been frequently emphasised in recent times, often against the backdrop of...
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Sushi-mania indeed
Food and Drink
·19th October 2018

Sushimania’s on a roll with its £16.80 bottomless menu

Louis Thomas
Image credit: Louis Thomas- Description-A plate of sushi Until recently, I foolishly assumed that once you go beyond Oxford Castle...
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Entertainment
·2nd April 2018

Review: Isle of Dogs

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...
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Features
·20th November 2016

China and Japan – a Student’s Perspective

Scott Harker
Over the summer, I was given the opportunity to visit both China and Japan, as a first-time visitor in both...
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·4th November 2016

‘Where Diversity Meets Learning’ – Reporting from HLAB 2016

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...
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·7th October 2016

Resilience in Japan: Reflections from Onagawa

Sam Sykes
  On the 11th March 2011 at 14:46 JST, an earthquake struck Japan off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, in...
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Features
·18th January 2016

Feminism, Japan and Me

Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe
In a bid to put my English degree to good use and rekindle my love affair with East Asia, in...
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Features
·22nd October 2015

Ten Reasons to Visit Japan in the Winter

Yuki Numata
If you’ve ever been to Japan, you might have noticed that the country places a strong emphasis on its four...
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Entertainment
·2nd May 2014

Review: Surviving Tsunami at the Pitt

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...
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CommentFeaturesInternational Issues
·17th January 2019

Japan’s decision to recommence whaling is perhaps not such a bad thing

James Ashworth
Late last year, the Japanese government’s chief spokesperson announced that the country will restart its commercial whaling program in July...
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Profile
·17th November 2018

A catch up with MissHanake about growing up with YouTube and turning a passion for Japanese into a degree at Oxford

Francesca Whitfield
Image Credit: Hannah Kentridge Hannah Kentridge is a 21-year-old, 4th year undergraduate at Pembroke College, Oxford, studying Oriental Studies and...
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A row of capsules in the Anshin Oyado Luxury Capsule Hotel, Tokyo
Features
·4th October 2018

My experience in a Japanese capsule hotel

James Ashworth
The infamous capsule hotel. Everyone’s heard of those little pods into which people cram themselves in an effort to save...
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Features
·30th November 2016

Japanophilia, Japanophobia: Considering the Experience of Cultural Difference in Japan

Sam Sykes
  Noise, light, energy. The skyscrapers shimmer with neon and exuberant sky-high manga figures; the streets resound with the cheerful...
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Comment
·20th November 2016

Nuclear Weapons: Learning from the Past

Mayu Noda
In politics, human life ironically seems to be of little interest; the response of the USA and Japan to the...
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Features
·13th October 2016

A People Ebbs – The Demographic Trials and Tribulations of Japan

Scott Harker
When I arrived in the far northern Japanese town of Teshio, I was initially struck by two things: one was...
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Entertainment
·13th February 2016

One-Punch Man: The first postmodern anime?

James Riding
If you grew up some time between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, chances are you remember watching a particular...
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Features
·25th October 2015

Individualism and pack mentality: one gobby Geordie’s journey to Japan

Beth Lambert
There is a popular phrase in Japan called “the nail that sticks out its head gets hammered”, a mantra enforcing...
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Entertainment
·2nd March 2015

Preview: ‘As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams’- Crossing into a fairytale

“Think of all the tales you’re going to discover…” Arriving on the B-T stage this 7th week is ‘As I...
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