Research field (3):
History - Japan
, Literature - Japanese
, Local studies
Research keywords (6):
Memory studies
, Pacific Islands
, Modern East Asian history
, Pacific War
, Travel writing
, 20th century history
Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2020 - 2025 A Historical Study of Global Migration, Flora and Fauna Exchange of Modern Japanese Period
2014 - 2017 “Developing Korean awareness at University of the South Pacific”
2012 - 2015 Japanese travel writing on the Pacific Islands
Papers (22):
Ryota Nishino. Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea. 2022
Ryota Nishino. War, Trauma, and Humanity in a Japanese Veteran’s New Guinea War Memoir: Ogawa Masatsugu’s “Island of Death” (1969). The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. 2022
Ryota Nishino. Re-examining Asia-Pacific War Memories: Grief, Narratives, and Memorials. The Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus. 2022
Travelling memories: war memoirs and travelogues of the southern Pacific campaigns of Asia-Pacific War - memory and historical consciousness. Peace Studies. 2020. 30. 1. 55-82
Ryota Nishino. Pacific War Battle Sites through the Eyes of Japanese Travel Writers: Vicarious Consumer Travel and Emotional Performance in Travelogues. History and Memory. 2020. 32. 2. 146-175
Ryōta Nishino. Beyond Zero-Sum Geopolitics: Asia-Pacific and the Shadows of the Asia-Pacific War. Critical Asian Studies, Commentary, Online, https://doi.org/10.52698/CPDW4488. 2022
Ryota Nishino. Japanese Studies from the South Pacific: Present and Future Prospects as Seen from the University of the South Pacific. Japanese Studies Around the World 世界の日本研究. 2022. 28-35
Ryota Nishino. Traveling Memories: Travel, War and Sightseeing in the Pacific Islands). Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2019, AM/NES I A: Forgotten Archipelago of Oceania. 2019. 42-43
Ryota Nishino. Toward a Future of Travel Writing and History : Collecting, Researching, and Reflecting on Southwestern Pacific Islanders' Experiences of the Pacific War. Japanese Studies Down Under : History, Politics, Literature and Art. 2018. 171-180
New Zealand Asian, Studies Society International ConferenceMassey University. White-washing and Brain-washing: A Comparative Study of the Narrative Strategies and Descriptions of the Russo-Japanese War in Japanese and Russian History Textbooks, ca. 1997-2010. Proceedings of the 19th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference. 2011. 157-164
An Encyclopaedia of Oceanian Cultures
2024 ISBN:9784621310076
Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea War, Travel and the Reimagining of History
Bloomsbury Academic 2022 ISBN:9781350139008
Transpacific Vision: Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South
Lexington Books 2021
Japanese studies : perspectives from the Pacific rim
2021 ISBN:9784910171005
Pacific insularity : imaginary geography of insular spaces in the Pacific
Rikkyo University Press,Maruzen-Yushodo [distributor] 2021 ISBN:9784901988384
Fear and Intrigue on Southern Islands: Mizuki Shigeru's Ocean Monster and its Anime Renditions 1987 and 1996
(Insular imaginaries? Japan’s Islands, Reversion, and Territorial Integrity from the 1970s to Toda 2024)
Making Waves in “the Japanese Lake”: Journalists’ Impressions of Korean Ports and Manchuria, and Niigata, 1930-1941
(The 24th AAS-in-Asia conference, Universitas Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2024)
2003 - 2007 The University of Western Australia Faulty of Arts History
Professional career (1):
PhD (The University of Western Australia)
Work history (8):
2023/04 - 現在 Meijo University Faculty of Business Management Department of International Business Management Associtate Professor
2021/08 - 2023/03 Nagoya University Graduate School of Law Desginated Assistant Professor
2020/04 - 2021/07 International Research Center for Japanese Studies International Research Center for Japanese Studies Visiting research fellow
2012/07 - 2021/07 The University of the South Pacific School of Law and Social Sciences Senior Lecturer
2019/04 - 2020/03 International Research Center for Japanese Studies International Research Center for Japanese Studies Visiting Research Fellow
2012/01 - 2012/05 Fiji National University Department of Geography and History Head of Department (History)
2011/06 - 2012/05 Fiji National University Department of Geography and History Assistant Professor in History
2009/01 - 2011/06 Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (Ara Institute of Canterbury) Japanese Language Programme Lecturer
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Committee career (3):
2023/04 - 2025/03 名城大学 インターナショナル教育・研究センター運営委員会
2022/04 - 2023/03 Nagoya University, Graduate School of Law International Student Committee (2022 Academic Year)
2022/04 - 2023/03 Nagoya University, Graduate School of Law Academic Writing Working Group (English programme)
Awards (6):
2004/04 - The Georg Eckert Institute of International Schoolbook Research Research scholarship
2003/04 - The University of Western Australia Convocation Post Graduate Travel Award for 2004
2003/03 - The University of Western Australia University Postgraduate Award)(International Student)
2003/03 - The University of Western Australia International Postgraduate Research Scholarship
2000/08 - Massey University, New Zealand Teacher Trainee Scholarship
2000/04 - Rhodes University Colours (for academic achievement)
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Association Membership(s) (5):
Japan Society for Tourism Studies
, Sietar Japan 異文化コミュニュケーション学会
, Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies
, British Association of Japanese Studies
, European Assciation of Japanese Studies