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DrIan McArthur

Honorary Associate

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

  • Honorary Associate
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Adaptations by oral storytellers (rakugoka), playwrights and newspapers of popular European detective fiction as mediums for the transmission to Japan of nineteenth-century European notions of modernity.
  • The use of media, particularly the print media, in cross-cultural interchange between the West and Japan
  • The role of Japan’s reporters’ clubs (kisha kurabu) as filters of information.