Organization
Faculty of Foreign Language Studies Professor
Title
Professor
Profile
https://sites.google.com/site/nobukoperf/
External link
ANAN,Nobuko
Research Interests
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Theatre Studies/ Performance Studies
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gender/sexuality
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visual culture
Research Areas
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Humanities & Social Sciences / Aesthetics and art studies
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Humanities & Social Sciences / Theory of art practice
Education
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University of California, Los Angeles Department of Theater Theater and Performance Studies
2009
Country： United States
Research History
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Kansai University Faculty of Foreign Language Studies Professor
2018.4
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Cultures and Languages, Birkbeck, University of London
2017.10 - 2018.3
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Ochanomizu University
2016.9 - 2016.12
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The University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences
2016.9 - 2016.11
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Lecturer, Department of Cultures and Languages, Birkbeck, University of London
2015.10 - 2017.9
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Lecturer, Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
2013.5 - 2015.9
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Lecturer, School of Arts, Northumbria University
2011.9 - 2013.5
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ウォーリック大学 演劇 演劇・パフォーマンス学部 研究員
2009.10 - 2011.8
Professional Memberships
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International Federation for Theatre Research
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日本演劇学会
Committee Memberships
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Theatre Research International 書評編集長
2023 - Present
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“Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance,” Bloomsbury Series, Methuen ボードメンバー
2022 - Present
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Theatre Research International アジア太平洋地域 書評編集委員
2021 - Present
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"Women Theatre Makers" Series, Cambridge Elements, Cambridge University Press ボードメンバー
2020 - Present
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Theatre Research International 編集委員
2019 - 2021
Papers
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Girls’ Aesthetics in Japan: Absence of Female Material Bodies Invited Reviewed International journal
22 81 - 100 2022
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Finding a Place of Their Own: A Genealogy of Women in Japanese Theatre Invited International journal
226 - 229 2022
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The Nation as Family: Motherhood and Love in Japan Invited Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance 623 - 636 2021
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Theatrical Realism in Manga: Performativity of Gender in Minako Narita’s Alien Street Invited Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 12 (3): 133-141 2019
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Women’s Community in Neoliberal Japan: Case Studies from Yanagi Miwa’s Visual Art Works
ANAN,Nobuko
Center for Comparative Japanese Studies Annual Bulletin 13、87-92ページ ( 13 ) 87 - 92 2017
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Girls' Aesthetics in Japanese Theatre Invited
Nobuko Anan
Japan Society Proceedings 2016 153 110 - 123 2017
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Japanese Women’s Popular Musicals: The Takarazuka Revue Invited Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers 145 - 150 2017
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Theatre of Kishida Rio: Towards Re-signification of ‘Home’ for Women in Asia Invited Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
Women in Asian Performance: Aesthetics and Politics 110 - 123 2017
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Imagining Love in a Neoliberal Japan: Yanagi Miwa’s Elevator Girl Invited Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times 51 - 63 2017
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The Rose of Versailles: Women and Revolution in Girls' Manga and the Socialist Movement in Japan Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE 47 ( 1 ) 41 - 63 2014.2
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The Takarazuka Revue’s Wind in the Dawn: (De-)nationalization of Japanese Women Invited Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
Theatre and National Identity: Re-Imagining Conceptions of the Nation 181 - 199 2014
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Dossier: History, Memory, Event: A Working Archive Reviewed
Nobuko Anan, Bishnupriya Dutt, Janelle Reinelt, Shrinkhla Sahai
Theatre Research International 37 ( 2 ) 163 - 183 2012.7
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Identity Politics in Women's Performance in Japan Invited Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 37 ( 1 ) 68 - 70 2012.3
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Two-Dimensional Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Women's Performance Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
TDR T212 96 - 112 2011
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Reconsideration of Japanese Women’s Bodies: KATHY’s Parody of Singin’ in the Rain Invited Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
Portrayals of Americans on the World Stage: Critical Essays 134 - 154 2009
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M. Butterfly: Reconfiguring Gender and Geography Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
Doshisha Literature 48, 85-104 2006
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岸田理生『終の住処仮の宿ー川島芳子伝』ージェンダーとナショナリティ Reviewed
阿南 順子
演劇学論集 43 31 - 46 2005
Books
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Performing Female Intimacy in Japan’s Takarazuka Revue Reviewed
（ Role： Sole author）
Cambridge University Press 2025
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Contemporary Japanese Women's Theatre and Visual Arts: Performing Girls' Aesthetics Reviewed
Nobuko Anan（ Role： Sole author）
Palgrave Macmillan 2016
MISC
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（書評）Okada Toshiki & Japanese Theatre, edited by Peter Eckersall, Barbara Geilhorn, Andreas Regelsberger and Cody Poulton Invited
Nobuko Anan
English Journal of JSTR 3 ( 1 ) 77 - 82 2023
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（報告）Postcards from Lockdown Invited
Nobuko Anan
International Federation for Theatre Research 2020
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（書評）The Aging Body in Dance: A Cross-cultural Perspective edited by Nanako Nakajima and Gabriele Brandstetter Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
Theatre Research International 43 ( 3 ) 342 - 343 2018
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（翻訳）Can Eros Be the Basis of Resistance? Invited
Nobuko Anan, Franklin Chang
Shuji Terayama Retrospective: "Who Can Say That We Should Not Live Like Dogs" 19 - 37 2012
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（書評）池内靖子著『女優の誕生と終焉』 Invited
阿南順子
イメージ＆ジェンダー 9 2009
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（翻訳）クリスティ・デネヒー著 ポストコロニアル日本の在日朝鮮人による「労働運動」ー早船ちよ『キューポラのある街』および梁石日『夜を賭けて』
Nobuko Anan
アジア現代女性史 5 68 - 75 2009
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（翻訳）Iwanami Gō. Introduction to Katō Michio’s The Man Who Sells Memories and Fukuda Tsuneari’s The Seige Invited
Carol Sorgenfrei and Nobuko Anan
Half a Century of Japanese Theatre 8 213 - 219 2007
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（翻訳）Katō Michio. The Man Who Sells Memories Invited
Carol Sorgenfrei and Nobuko Anan
Half a Century of Japanese Theatre 8 221 - 245 2007
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（劇評）Hiroshima Maiden. Directed by Dan Hurlin Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
Theatre Journal 58 ( 4 ) 690 - 692 2006
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（劇評）Medea, Directed by Miyagi Satoshi Reviewed
Nobuko Anan
Asian Theatre Journal 23, 407 - 411 2006
Presentations
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羊屋白玉氏（指輪ホテルシアターカンパニー主催）と公開対談 Invited
阿南 順子
愛知芸術センター主催、AAF戯曲賞 2016
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Talk with Toco Nikaido on her theatre company, Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker Invited
Nobuko Anan
Part of LIFT festival at Barbican Centre, London, UK. 2016
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Tragedy as Girls’ Utopia: Takarazuka’s The Poe Clan
Nobuko Anan
International Federation for Theatre Research 2024.7
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Building a Home in Limbo?: Dance Box’s Little Lullabies in Nagata, Kobe Invited
Nobuko Anan
De-centering Japanese Performance, University of California, Santa Barbara 2022.6
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The Takarazuka Revue and Resistant Girls’ Culture in Japan Invited
Nobuko Anan
YouTube Pop Culture Series #13, “Takarazuka: The Interplay between All-female Musicals and Girls’ Culture in Japan,” Japan Foundation New York 2022.3
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新自由主義と女性身体――３次元から２次元へ Invited
阿南 順子
日本英文学会関東支部 2020年度秋季大会 第 19 回（2020 年度秋季大会） 2020.11
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野田秀樹『MIWA』における母と愛を巡って Invited
阿南 順子
近現代演劇研究会 2019
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Noda Hideki’s MIWA: (Un)silencing ‘Maternal’ Voices
Nobuko Anan
International Federation for Theatre Research 2019
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“Two-dimensional ‘Girls’ Aesthetics’ in a Neoliberal Time: Yanagi Miwa’s Elevator Girl” Invited
Nobuko Anan
International Conference: Representations of the Face in Japanese and Western European Literature and Theatre from the Early Modern Period to the Present 2018
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Narita Minako's Alien Street: Performance in Two-Dimensional Manga Space Invited
Nobuko Anan
Adaptation, or How Media Relate in Contemporary Japan," Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture 2018
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Two-Dimensional Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Theatre and Visual Arts Invited
Nobuko Anan
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds 2016
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ネオリベラル社会における女性の共同体ーやなぎみわのビジュアル・アーツ作品を中心に Invited
阿南 順子
お茶の水女子大学 比較日本学コンソーシアム 2016
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Girls’ Aesthetics in Japanese Theatre Invited
Nobuko Anan
Japan Society Lecture Series 2016
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Longing for Girls’ Enclave: A Case Study from Contemporary Japanese Women’s Theatre
Nobuko Anan
Crossroads 2016
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Revising Traditions: Emancipation of Women, a Second-Wave Feminist ‘Muse-cal’ in Japan
Nobuko Anan
International Federation for Theatre Research 2016
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Nagai Ai’s Men Who Try to Make Them Sing: Whose Voice is Heard in ‘Japanese Democracy’
Nobuko Anan
International Federation for Theatre Research 2015
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Introduction to the Takarazuka Revue Invited
Nobuko Anan
Symposium of the Takarazuka Revue, “One Hundred Years of Song and Dance.” The Japan Foundation, London, UK 2014
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Girls' Space, Girls' Time: Case Studies from Contemporary Performance and Visual Arts in Japan Invited
Nobuko Anan
Japan Research Centre Seminar Series, SOAS 2013
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Miwa Yanagi’s Granddaughters: Women’s Space without Temporality
Nobuko Anan
Performance Studies International 2013
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Japanese Women’s Performance and Neoliberalism
Nobuko Anan
International Federation for Theatre Research 2013
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Shunga into Manga? Invited
Nobuko Anan
"Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art," British Museum 2013
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The Takarazuka Revue and Kegawa-zoku: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Japan
Nobuko Anan
British Association for Japanese Studies 2012
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Complicit Commerciality in Japan’s Takarazuka Revue
Nobuko Anan
Performance Studies International 2012
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Gender and Subcultures: Case Studies from Japan Invited
Nobuko Anan
Symposium "Going Underground? Gender and Subcultures," Northumbria University, 2012
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Kishida Rio, 'the Female Version of Terayama Shūji,' and Her Legacy in Contemporary Japanese Theatre Invited
Nobuko Anan
Symposium of Shūji Terayama, "I Am a Terayama Shūji." The Tate Modern 2012
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Theatre and Feminism in Japan
Nobuko Anan
International Federation for Theatre Research 2011
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Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan and Nation, Gender, Sex. Invited
Nobuko Anan
Warwick-JNU Conference 2010
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Takarazuka’s Wind in the Dawn: Melancholic Identification with the American Other
Nobuko Anan
British Association for Japanese Studies 2010
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Japanese Women’s Pop-Cultural Performance
Nobuko Anan
International Federation for Theatre Research 2010
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From Little Boy to Little Girl: Case Studies of Contemporary Japanese Women's Performance Invited
Nobuko Anan
Theatre and Performance Studies Seminar Series, University of Warwick 2010
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Takarazuka’s Gone With the Wind: Performing America and the (De)nationalization of Japanese Women's Bodies Invited
Nobuko Anan
Warwick-JNU Conference 2010
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Performing America and Nationalization of Japanese Women's Bodies in the Takarazuka Revue Invited
Nobuko Anan
University of California Multi-Campus Workshop on Japanese Arts and Globalizations 2008
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Yubiwa Hotel’s Lear: Blocking Women’s Rites of Passage Invited
Nobuko Anan
University of California Multi-Campus Research Group Colloquium on Asian Performance, Irvine, 2008
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Carnival without End: Negotiating Subjectivity in Tanaka Mitsu’s Emancipation of Women
Nobuko Anan
Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2007
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Looking for Home?: Social Signification of Maid Cafés
Nobuko Anan
Comparative Drama Conference 2007
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Reconsideration of Japanese Women’s Bodies: KATHY’s Parody of Singin’ in the Rain
Nobuko Anan
American Society for Theatre Research 2007
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The Takarazuka Revue: From Western Man to Japanese Housewife
Nobuko Anan
Comparative Drama Conference 2006
Research Projects
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Playing with the West: Parody and Mimesis in Contemporary Japanese Women's Performance
2009 - 2011
The British Academy Newton International Fellowship
Nobuko Anan
Authorship：Principal investigator
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Pop-cultural Approaches to Contemporary Japanese Women's Performance
2008 - 2009
The George & Sakaye Aratani Community Fellowship Fund Aratani Fellowship
Nobuko Anan
Authorship：Principal investigator
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Playing with America: Parody and Mimesis in Contemporary Japanese Women's Performance
2008
James Pendleton Foundation James Pendleton Foundation Prize
Nobuko Anan
Authorship：Principal investigator
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Playing with America: Parody and Mimesis in Contemporary Japanese Women's Performance
2007 - 2008
The George & Sakaye Aratani Community Fellowship Fund George and Sakaye Aratani Field Experience Scholarship
Nobuko Anan
Authorship：Principal investigator
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Postcolonial Approaches to Contemporary Japanese Women's Performance
2006 - 2007
Wagatsuma Memorial Fellowship
Nobuko Anan
Authorship：Principal investigator
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Feminist Performance in Contemporary Japanese Theatre
2004 - 2008
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation Sasakawa Fellowship
Nobuko Anan
Authorship：Principal investigator
Social Activities
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アジア女性舞台芸術会議実行委員会メンバー
2015
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Butterfly London コンサルタント
Role(s)： Advisor, Informant
2014
Academic Activities
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女性、ドラマ、つながり―絡まらず、けれど解けず―
Role(s)： Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc.
2021
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The Journal of Japanese Studies
Role(s)： Peer review
2019
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International Journal of Cultural Studies
Role(s)： Peer review
2017
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ワークショップ「女の家族「帝国」？ー リャオ・プェイティン『ファミリー』を読む」
Role(s)： Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc.
2016
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Methuen Drama
Role(s)： Peer review
2015
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NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
Role(s)： Peer review
2014
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Takarazuka: One Hundred Years of Song and Dance
Role(s)： Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc.
2014
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Japan’s All-Female Takarazuka Revue: Considering Gender and Sexuality from Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Role(s)： Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc.
2014
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Japanese Body Cultures and the Human Condition
Role(s)： Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc.
2013
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Theatre Research International
Role(s)： Peer review
2012 - Present
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International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
Role(s)： Peer review
2012