Azumi KAWAHARA

Brief personal history

Oct 2017 – Oct 2019 Visiting Researcher, Berlin Free University, (Prof. Dr. Urs Matthias Zachmann)
Apr 2017 – Mar 2020 Research Fellow, PD, JSPS, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, (Prof. Dr. Shōichi Inoue)
Apr 2015 – Mar 2017 Senior Researcher, Ritsumeikan University (Prof. Dr. Kei Mikawa)
Sep 2012 – Dec 2013 Research Fellow, PD, JSPS, Ritsumeikan University (Prof. Dr. Masatsugu Hongo)
Apr 2011 – Aug 2012 Research Fellow, DC2, JSPS, Ritsumeikan University (Prof. Dr. Masatsugu Hongo)

Degrees

2012 Ph.D. Literature, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
2008 M.A. Literature, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
2006 B.A. Literature, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

Research themes

Intellectual history of Sadomasochism in Japan

Brief explanation of research

Azumi Kawahara is a lecturer of Fukuoka Women's University, International College of Arts and Sciences Department of International Liberal Arts, since 2020.
She majored in Japanese ancient history at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. Her current field is post-war intellectual history and culture. Her research focuses specifically on drawing the intellectual history of sadomasochism which is not as pathological but as notions which had close connections with democracy, patriotism, and modernity.

Select publication list

1.“Masochism and Post-war Nationalism: Analysis of Human Cattle Yapoo written by Shōzō Numa,” Sengo Nihonbunka Saikou (Rethinking of Post Modern Japanese Culture), San'ninsha, 2019 in Japanese

2.“The Dispute about Zubon and Slacks between Shin Azuma and Shōzō Numa: The Origin of Japanese Sadism in the Kitan Club in the 1950s,” in The Annual Review of Cultural Studies vol.4, Kōshisha, pp185-205, 2016 in Japanese

3.“Deciphering Murakami Nobuhiko’s Anonymous Text in the Kitan Club: An Alter Ego of a Post-war Democratic Egalitarian,” The Journal of Cultural Sciences, 647, 40-62, 2016. in Japanese

4. “Book Review: FUCHIHARA Tomoyuki, ‘A Study of the Rule over the Tohoku Region during the Heian Period,’” The Shirin (The Journal of History), pp98-5, 2015. in Japanese

5. “The Japan-centric order and control of Emishi under the Ritsuryo states), ”Ph.D. dissertation, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 2012. in Japanese

Funds

Jul 2019– Present Grant- in- Aid for JSPS: Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER), candidates, Amount:18,000,000 JPY
Apr 2017 – Mar 2021 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Young Scientists (B), Amount: 2,700,000 JPY, Research Title: The Relationship between Perverse Sexuality and the Theories of Modernization/ Anti-modernization in Post-war Japan
Apr 2017 – Mar 2020 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Amount: 3,400,000 JPY, Research Title: The Intellectual History of Sadomasochism in Modern Japan
Jun 2016 – Mar 2017 Grant-in-Aid for Ritsumeikan University: Research Promotion Program for Acquiring Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI),
Amount: 200,000 JPY, Research Title: Research on the Acceptance and Development of Sinocentrism in Ancient Japan Based on Sino-Japanese Comparison
Jun 2014 – Mar 2015 Grant-in-Aid for the Takanashi Foundation for Arts and Archeology, Amount: 500,000 JPY, Research Title: Japan-centric Order and Recognition of Iteki in Ancient Japan: The Cases of Emishi’s Naturalization and Assimilation

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• Literature and History
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