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This paper aims at introducing standard practices and new strategies of the Japanese language education between Italy and Japan, in a globalized contest of different kind of migrations, against the background of the new possibilities opened by the EU-Japan's Economic Partnership Agreement (2019), and the new immigration policies launched by Japan (2019-2020). In both cases, economc and demographic issues, together with consistent ethical matters, lead to a robust rethinking of linguistic policies as a mandatory step forward an inclusive interaciton between nationals and non-nationals.

Adaptation (hon’an) and translation (hon’yaku) of Shakespeare’s plays are the key strategies that the Meiji literati endorsed to appropriate Shakespeare’s cultural heritage.

This paper is a study of a Japanese illustrated handscroll produced in the late Kamakura period (1185-1333), the Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba, that provides an invaluable pictorial account of the two attempted Mongol invasions of Japan in the years 1274 and 1281. It was copied and restored, with some images significantly altered, during the Edo period (1615-1868).

In an essay published on the 11th of August 1967, the well-known writer Yukio Mishima 三島由紀夫 surprisingly yielded a confession about why he had never mentioned the trauma that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had exerted on his psyche – and if we are to take his statement literally, his literature as well. The essay is titled “Hiroshima inside me” (Watashi no naka no hiroshima. In it, Mishima describes the extent of the moral and psychic trauma that this event extolled on him as a youngster.

The essay first takes into consideration the shift in the balance of power in the Far East since the end of the Cold War. It focuses on the changes that have taken place in the Pacific from the Obama era to the Trump presidency, especially from the point of view of the so-called “Thucydides” and “Churchill” Traps. Within such a framework, it discusses the core reasons for the rivalry between the Popular Republic of China and the United States, as well as the theory of a clash between the two powers that is imminent and inevitable.

This article analyses accounts of travels to Asia written by Bengali women in the early
20th century, a period when there was an immense intellectual curiosity about Asia in colonial India.
Japan’s victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 was widely interpreted as a victory over Western
hegemony in Asia. The notion of a pan-Asian identity based on a shared history and cultural heritage
was debated and popularized in the Bengal public sphere. Together with this, there was also a

Through an analysis of travel accounts and memoirs of Hariprabha Takeda, this article
studies the experiences of a Bengali traveller / migrant to Japan in the first half of the 20th century.
It argues that the notion of a pan-Asian identity based on a shared cultural heritage, which was being
debated and popularized in early 20th century India, partly shaped her understanding of the society
and culture of her new habitation. Focusing on the issues of integration, identity and rootedness,