Tets Kimura
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Biography
Publications
Tets Kimura teaches Creative Arts at Flinders University. He has been a winner of various awards in political sciences and Asian studies, including the 2016 Paul Varley Award (Japan Studies Association, USA). His latest publications include “Cool Japan: Fashion as a Vehicle of Soft Power” (Transglobal Fashion Narratives, 2018. Bristol: Intellect, editors Anne Peirson-Smith and Joseph H. Hancock II), “Heroes and Villains: A Discourse Analysis of Australian and Japanese Whaling Reports in Newspapers” (Continuum 32:3, 2018, co-author Sandra Egege), and “Creation of Contemporary Taiwanese Fashion” (Fashion Practice 9:3, 2017, co-author Shih-Ying Lin).
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Japan: grasping for hope in a new imperial era
The Reiwa era is about to begin and with it springs hope that the national malaise of recent decades can be left behind.
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Japan’s immigration and integration questions
Twice as many people move to Japan than to Australia, now Japan is finally set to accept foreign labourers.