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Ohsawa Yuki

Center for Language Studies Associate Professor
Last Updated :2025/04/10

Researcher Information

Affiliation

    Center for Language Studies

Job Title

  • Associate Professor

Degree

  • PhD (Asian Studies)（2016/05 The University of British Columbia ）
  • MA (Pacific Studies)（2011/05 The University of Victoria）

Research funding number

  • 90981134

J-Global ID

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Literature - Japanese

Academic & Professional Experience

  • 2023/04 - Today  Otaru University of CommerceCenter for Language Studies准教授
  • 2022/09 - 2023/03  Western Washington UniversityThe Department of Modern and Classical LanguagesVisiting Assistant Professor
  • 2019/08 - 2022/08  The University of British ColumbiaThe Institute of Asian ResearchPostdoctoral Research Fellow
  • 2020/01 - 2022/07  The University of British ColumbiaThe Department of Asian StudiesPostdoctoral Teaching Fellow
  • 2017/09 - 2019/03  Josai International UniversityFaculty of TourismAssistant Professor
  • 2015/01 - 2017/08  The University of British ColumbiaThe Department of Asian StudiesSessional Lecturer

Education

  • 2011/09 - 2016/05  The University of British Columbia  The PhD program in the Department of Asian Studies

Association Memberships

  • Japan Society for Animation Studies   The Japan Studies Association Canada   Asian Studies Conference Japan   Japan Studies Association   

Published Papers

  • The Influence of the Pacific War on 1950s Japanese Manga: Perceptions of Technology
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Otaru University of Commerce The review of liberal arts 149 1 - 28 2025/03 Research institution
  • Charismatic Actors and Devout Audiences: Kabuki Meets Anime in Super Kabuki II
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 23 (3) Article 10  2024/01 [Reviewed]
     Scientific journal
  • Yuki OHSAWA
    The Japanese Journal of Animation Studies 22 (1) 43 - 54 2022/03 [Reviewed]
     Scientific journal
  • The Effect of the Hybridity between Eastern and Western Cultures in Japanese Animations -From a Post-Colonial Perspective-
    Yuki OHSAWA
    城西国際大学紀要 第27巻 第6号 観光学部 27 (6) 33 - 47 2019/03 [Reviewed]
  • A Contemporary Version of Globalization: New Ways of Circulating and Consuming Japanese Anime and Manga in East Asia
    Yuki OHSAWA
    城西国際大学紀要 第26巻 第6号 観光学部 26 (6) 19 - 41 2018/03 [Reviewed]
  • The Posthuman in Girls’ and Boys’ Japanese Manga and Anime—What do Sex, Gender, and Sexuality mean to Posthumans
    Yuki OHSAWA
    The Japan Studies Association of Canada 2016, Globalizing Japan: Issues in Language, Linguistics and Japanese Society 29 - 40 2017/01
  • Changes in the Conceptualization of Body and Mind in Japanese popular Culture, 1950 – 2015
    Yuki OHSAWA
    2016/04 Doctoral thesis
  • Form, Content, Body Parts: An Analysis of Gender relations in Contemporary Japanese Film
    Yuki OHSAWA
    2011/03 Master thesis
  • 三位一体の国際援助 –NGO・国家・国際機関の連携で世界に挑む–
    大澤 幸
    2008/03 Master thesis

Conference Activities & Talks

  • An Unusual Depiction of the Female Body in Japanese Anime
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Japan Studies Association of Canada 2024 Annual Conference  2024/10
  • 湯浅政明アニメの中のポストヒューマン
    Yuki OHSAWA
    日本アニメーション学会 第26回大会  2024/08
  • TIFF Pop Japan: World of Anime
    Yuki OHSAWA
    2023/05
  • Introduction of Satoshi Kon's Animated Films
    Yuki OHSAWA
    King Kon: The Anime of Kon Satoshi (The Cinematheque, Vancovuer)  2022/07
  • Japanese Girl’s Science Fiction Manga and Women Manga Artists
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Visual＋Material Culture Research Seminar Series (Museum of Anthropology at UBC)  2022/03
  • Post-war SF manga in Japan
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Comics in East Asia Conference (Online/ Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France)  2021/10
  • What does Anime Tourism really mean? – The locals Meet the anime fans who celebrate the anime pilgrimage sites –
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Asian Studies Conference Japan (Saitama, Japan)  2019/06
  • Anime Tourism in Oarai and Kamogawa – How Pilgrimage Sites Shine or Fade in Rural Japa
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Japan Studies Association (Hawaii, USA)  2019/01
  • Actors and Audience, Collaboration, Ritual, and Devotion: Super Kabuki II and the Fusion of Traditional and Popular Culture
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Asian Conference on Asian Studies (Kobe, Japan)  2018/06
  • “Anime Tourism” in Panel: Displacements and Dislocations in Postwar Japanese Mass Media
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Asian Studies Conference Japan (Tokyo, Japan)  2018/06
  • Anime Tourism: What Lagrange The flower of Ren-ne has brought to and created in the virtual world and the rural community in Kamogawa
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Critical Tourism Studies (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)  2018/03
  • Representations of the Endo-enhanced Body in Japanese Girls’ and Boy’s Manga and Anime
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Japan Studies Association of Canada (Vancouver, Canada)  2016/10
  • Technological Bodies in Japanese Anime from the 1950s to the 1990s
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Asian Studies Conference Japan (Tokyo, Japan)  2016/07
  • Technological Bodies: Reconceptualizing the Robot/ Human Relationship through Japanese Anime and Manga
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Harvard East Asia Society Conference (Cambridge, USA)  2016/02
  • Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Japanese Contemporary Science Fiction Animation
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Asian Studies Conference Japan (Tokyo, Japan)  2015/06
  • The Posthuman in Recent Japanese Cyborg Anime
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Human Being Human 2015 CSPT Graduate Students Conference (Victoria, Canada)  2015/05
  • Changes in the Conceptualization of Body and Mind
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Annual Asian Studies Graduate Conference (Vancouver, Canada)  2015/04
  • Posthuman in the 1990’s Japanese Cyborg Anime
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Columbia University Graduate Conference on East Asia (New York, USA)  2015/02
  • The Representation of the Female Body in. Contemporary Japanese Films
    Yuki OHSAWA
    Annual Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference (Vancouver, Canada)  2013/03

MISC

  • Intercultural Exchange Project in the Community: Participation of International Students and Japanese Students in the Otaru Tide Festival
    Yuki Ohsawa  言語センター広報 Language Studies  (33)  41  -46  2025/02

Teaching Experience

  • Japanese Culture
  • Advanced Japanese II  (Otaru University of Commerce) 

Social Contribution

  • 「アブジェクション理論で『千と千尋の神隠し』を読み解く」
    Date (from-to) : 2023/10/12-2023/10/12
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : 専修大学
    Event, Program, Title : 学祭科目
  • Introduction for A Silent Voice: Movie
    Date (from-to) : 2023/06/27-2023/06/27
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : トロント国際映画祭(TIFF) Cinematheque
    Event, Program, Title : Pop Japan：World of Anime
  • Introduction for Tekkonkinkreet
    Date (from-to) : 2023/06/16-2023/06/16
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : トロント国際映画祭(TIFF) Cinematheque
    Event, Program, Title : Pop Japan：World of Anime
  • Mind Game with Masaaki Yuasa
    Date (from-to) : 2023/06/12-2023/06/12
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : トロント国際映画祭(TIFF) Cinematheque
    Event, Program, Title : Pop Japan：World of Anime
  • Introduction for Mind Game
    Date (from-to) : 2023/06/11-2023/06/11
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : トロント国際映画祭(TIFF) Cinematheque
    Event, Program, Title : Pop Japan：World of Anime
  • Introduction for Perfect Bule
    Date (from-to) : 2023/06/03-2023/06/03
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : トロント国際映画祭(TIFF) Cinematheque
    Event, Program, Title : Pop Japan：World of Anime
  • Introduction for Memories
    Date (from-to) : 2023/06/03-2023/06/03
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : トロント国際映画祭(TIFF) Cinematheque
    Event, Program, Title : Pop Japan：World of Anime
  • King Kon: The Anime of Kon Satoshi
    Date (from-to) : 2022/07/14
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : The Cinematheque, Vancouver
    Event, Program, Title : The Anime of Kon Satoshi
  • Japanese Girl’s Science Fiction Manga and Women Manga Artists
    Date (from-to) : 2022/03/03
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : Museum of Anthropology (Vancouver)
    Event, Program, Title : Visual＋Material Culture Research Seminar Series

Media Coverage

  • Mind Game
    Date : 2023/04
    Publisher, broadcasting station: トロント国際映画祭（TIFF)
    Internet
  • Pop Japan: World of Anime
    Date : 2023/04
    Writer: Myself
    Publisher, broadcasting station: トロント国際映画祭（TIFF)
    Internet

Others

  • 2024/06 - Today 日本アニメーション学会 研究・教育委員
  • 2024/04 - Today 図書館運営委員会
  • 2024/04 - Today CGSグローカル教育部門グローカル教育専門運営会議
  • 2023/04 - Today CGSグローカル教育部門グローカル教育専門部会

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