Ryōta Nishino
Biographic Data
| ID | 337525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryōta Nishino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryōta |
| FAMILY NAME | Nishino |
| SIGNATURE | NISHINO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the South Pacific |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2815-1295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
War, Trauma, and Humanity in a Japanese Veteran's New Guinea War Memoir: Ogawa Masatsugu's "Island of Death" (1969)
Upon its publication in 1969, a war memoir by a Japanese veteran, Ogawa Masatsugu (1917-2009), "The Island of Death," New Guinea: Humans in Extremis (Shi-no-shima Nyūginia: Kyokugen no naka no ningen), rose to prominence for its portrayal of the raw realities of the author's combat experience in New Guinea. Although it secured its place in Japan's war memory of the Asia-Pacific War, what remains overlooked, and merits further exploration is Ogawa…
Introduction: Re-examining Asia-Pacific War Memories: Grief, Narratives, and Memorials
Articles in this special issue re-examine Asia-Pacific War memories by taking a longer and broader view, geographically, temporally, and spatially. A diverse, global team of thirteen authors highlights subjects across a wide geographical area spanning the Asia-Pacific region especially. In the process, articles question common assumptions and narratives surrounding Asia-Pacific War memories by highlighting crucial, in-between spaces and remembran…
Pacific War Battle Sites through the Eyes of Japanese Travel Writers: Vicarious Consumer Travel and Emotional Performance in Travelogues
This article analyzes travelogues written by Japanese visitors to the battle sites of the Pacific War. It argues that they tend to turn the destinations into exclusively Japanese zones of emotional performance, thereby promoting an imaginary reconquest of these sites. While most of these travelogues recount deepening empathy toward the Japanese victims and ignore the islander counterparts, a minority imagine the suffering of the islanders and vie…
The Awakening of a Journalist’s Historical Consciousness: Sasa Yukie’s Pacific Island Journeys of 2005–2006
Between 2005 and 2006 a female journalist Sasa Yukie (b. 1974) participated in and documented the commemoration of Japanese soldiers who died in the Pacific Islands during the Pacific War with other veterans and the families of deceased soldiers. Sasa’s book, Onna hitori gyokusai no shima o yuku (2007), integrates her travel experience, impressions of her fellow travellers, historical accounts, and reflections on battlefields and commemoration si…
From Memory Making to Money Making
Of the numerous commercially published Japanese travelogues about the southwestern Pacific Islands, five stand out for their detailed accounts of interactions between the travel writers and the Pacific Islanders. This article explores the common narrative threads in these works. Drawing on the literature on travel writing and dark tourism, it analyzes how the relationship between travelers and the Islanders has evolved over time. The early writer…
The Reverend Dr Kambati Uriam, 1961–2017
If there is a hope I wish to convey ... it is that the Gilbertese people will take pride in being I-Kiribati and treasure with all jealousy the wisdom and knowledge of their ancestors as found in the
Pacific Islanders Experience the Pacific War: Informants as Historians and Story Tellers
This article demonstrates how travel writers take on the roles of historians during and after their journeys. The manner in which they exercise their roles varies in their understanding of the past, the articulation of personal values, and aspirations for the present and the future. To highlight both the commonalities and the variations, consider three commercially published Japanese travelogues to southwestern Pacific Islands. The article shows …
The self-promotion of a maverick travel writer: Suzuki Tsunenori and his Southern Pacific Islands travelogue, Nanyō tanken jikki
Suzuki Tsunenori (1853–1938; also known as Keikun) was one of the pioneering writers on Pacific Islands in the Meiji period. Recent scholarship has exposed flaws in his representation of Pacific Islanders in his landmark travelogue, Nanyō tanken jikki [A True Chronicle of South Seas Exploration] (1892). While the criticism undermined his reputation for his ethnographic eye, this essay employs an alternative critical angle on self-presentation. Su…
Dialogues with Shadows: Reflections on Identity, History and Travel
After the end of my solo journey in Southeast Asia, I felt shadows from the trip were following me. It took me some time before I began reflecting on the shadows. My reflections attempt to merge the academic and the personal, and bring my motivation and observations into scrutiny. This reflective exercise begins with my motivation for the journey, and moves to a few individuals and their personal life histories. I am indebted to VALDES for awardi…
Tales of Two Fijis: Early 1960s Japanese travel writing by Kanetaka Kaoru and Kita Morio
This paper analyses impressions of Fiji in 1961, recorded by two well-known Japanese travel writers: travel journalist Kanetaka Kaoru and writer Kita Morio. Their comments on ethnic Fijians' attitudes to work and on encounters with a variety of Indigenous Fijians, including ratu (hereditary chiefs), made the observed people ‘others' informing the travellers' views on post-war colonial Fiji in an era when little was known about Fiji in Japan. Diff…
Ukiya Tôjirô and his motorcycle journey in August 1957: Crystallising ambitions and identity
One of the formative experiences the motorcar racer Ukiya Tôjirô (1942–1965) had was his first long-distance motorcycle journey. His long-selling travelogue, Gamushara 1500 kiro [My frantic 1500-kilometre journey] chronicles his travel and demonstrates his growing awareness as a young member of an elite socio-economic stratum. This article situates his motorcycle journey in Japanese social history. It then analyses his writing from a socio-econom…
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Ukiya Tôjirô and his motorcycle journey in August 1957: Crystallising ambitions and identity
One of the formative experiences the motorcar racer Ukiya Tôjirô (1942–1965) had was his first long-distance motorcycle journey. His long-selling travelogue, Gamushara 1500 kiro [My frantic 1500-kilometre journey] chronicles his travel and demonstrates his growing awareness as a young member of an elite socio-economic stratum. This article situates his motorcycle journey in Japanese social history. It then analyses his writing from a socio-econom…
Dialogues with Shadows: Reflections on Identity, History and Travel
After the end of my solo journey in Southeast Asia, I felt shadows from the trip were following me. It took me some time before I began reflecting on the shadows. My reflections attempt to merge the academic and the personal, and bring my motivation and observations into scrutiny. This reflective exercise begins with my motivation for the journey, and moves to a few individuals and their personal life histories. I am indebted to VALDES for awardi…
Tales of Two Fijis: Early 1960s Japanese travel writing by Kanetaka Kaoru and Kita Morio
This paper analyses impressions of Fiji in 1961, recorded by two well-known Japanese travel writers: travel journalist Kanetaka Kaoru and writer Kita Morio. Their comments on ethnic Fijians' attitudes to work and on encounters with a variety of Indigenous Fijians, including ratu (hereditary chiefs), made the observed people ‘others' informing the travellers' views on post-war colonial Fiji in an era when little was known about Fiji in Japan. Diff…
The self-promotion of a maverick travel writer: Suzuki Tsunenori and his Southern Pacific Islands travelogue, Nanyō tanken jikki
Suzuki Tsunenori (1853–1938; also known as Keikun) was one of the pioneering writers on Pacific Islands in the Meiji period. Recent scholarship has exposed flaws in his representation of Pacific Islanders in his landmark travelogue, Nanyō tanken jikki [A True Chronicle of South Seas Exploration] (1892). While the criticism undermined his reputation for his ethnographic eye, this essay employs an alternative critical angle on self-presentation. Su…
The Awakening of a Journalist’s Historical Consciousness: Sasa Yukie’s Pacific Island Journeys of 2005–2006
Between 2005 and 2006 a female journalist Sasa Yukie (b. 1974) participated in and documented the commemoration of Japanese soldiers who died in the Pacific Islands during the Pacific War with other veterans and the families of deceased soldiers. Sasa’s book, Onna hitori gyokusai no shima o yuku (2007), integrates her travel experience, impressions of her fellow travellers, historical accounts, and reflections on battlefields and commemoration si…
From Memory Making to Money Making
Of the numerous commercially published Japanese travelogues about the southwestern Pacific Islands, five stand out for their detailed accounts of interactions between the travel writers and the Pacific Islanders. This article explores the common narrative threads in these works. Drawing on the literature on travel writing and dark tourism, it analyzes how the relationship between travelers and the Islanders has evolved over time. The early writer…
The Reverend Dr Kambati Uriam, 1961–2017
If there is a hope I wish to convey ... it is that the Gilbertese people will take pride in being I-Kiribati and treasure with all jealousy the wisdom and knowledge of their ancestors as found in the
Pacific Islanders Experience the Pacific War: Informants as Historians and Story Tellers
This article demonstrates how travel writers take on the roles of historians during and after their journeys. The manner in which they exercise their roles varies in their understanding of the past, the articulation of personal values, and aspirations for the present and the future. To highlight both the commonalities and the variations, consider three commercially published Japanese travelogues to southwestern Pacific Islands. The article shows …
Pacific War Battle Sites through the Eyes of Japanese Travel Writers: Vicarious Consumer Travel and Emotional Performance in Travelogues
This article analyzes travelogues written by Japanese visitors to the battle sites of the Pacific War. It argues that they tend to turn the destinations into exclusively Japanese zones of emotional performance, thereby promoting an imaginary reconquest of these sites. While most of these travelogues recount deepening empathy toward the Japanese victims and ignore the islander counterparts, a minority imagine the suffering of the islanders and vie…
War, Trauma, and Humanity in a Japanese Veteran's New Guinea War Memoir: Ogawa Masatsugu's "Island of Death" (1969)
Upon its publication in 1969, a war memoir by a Japanese veteran, Ogawa Masatsugu (1917-2009), "The Island of Death," New Guinea: Humans in Extremis (Shi-no-shima Nyūginia: Kyokugen no naka no ningen), rose to prominence for its portrayal of the raw realities of the author's combat experience in New Guinea. Although it secured its place in Japan's war memory of the Asia-Pacific War, what remains overlooked, and merits further exploration is Ogawa…
Introduction: Re-examining Asia-Pacific War Memories: Grief, Narratives, and Memorials
Articles in this special issue re-examine Asia-Pacific War memories by taking a longer and broader view, geographically, temporally, and spatially. A diverse, global team of thirteen authors highlights subjects across a wide geographical area spanning the Asia-Pacific region especially. In the process, articles question common assumptions and narratives surrounding Asia-Pacific War memories by highlighting crucial, in-between spaces and remembran…
History (11 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Travel Writing and Literature (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works)