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
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
'Doing history' in documentaries? Testimonies and memory in 'Nyūginia ni chitta 16-man no seishun' (dir. Ushiyama Junichi)
(Joint research forum at the National Museum of Ethnology 2022)
Professional Development session: Academic writing
(Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University 2022)
War, trauma and humanity in a Japanese veteran’s New Guinea war memoir: Ogawa Masatsugu’s Shi-no-shima Nyūginia (1969)
(Re-examining Asia-Pacific War Memories: Towards a cross-textual global dialogue 2020)
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 (2):
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) (4):
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