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Faculti.net interview about Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan

Faculti.net interview about Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan

Interview about Abe Shinzō’s assassination and gun control in Japan.

Fieldwork with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, 1999.

Fieldwork with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, 1999.

  • Interview with Will Brehm about why Playing War: Children and the Modern Paradoxes of Militarism in Japan (2017) matters now on FreshEd, a “weekly podcast that makes complex ideas in educational research easily understood.”

  • Interview about “Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan” with New Books in East Asian Studies host Daigengna Duoer.

  • Roundtable on “Meiji at 150 – Gendering War & Peace in Modern Japan” (Episode 21). Tristan Grunow (UBC) in conversation with Frühstück, Barbara Molony (Santa Clara University), and Hillary Maxson (University of Oregon).

  • The “Short(est) History of Sex in Japan” (in Japanese and German) on the Goethe Institute’s website.

  • Interview about demographic crisis and SDF recruitment, Linda Sieg, chief correspondent, Thomson Reuters, August 19, 2018.

  • Interview with Susan Scutti of CNN on “Uncle Rental,” a service that “rents” middle-aged men for various tasks, 2018.

  • Interviewed and subsequently cited about recruitment issues of the Japanese armed forces for The Asahi Shinbun; also in The Japan Times, U.S. News & World Report

  • Podcast. Japan in Focus, Australian Broadcasting Corporation News; hosted by Eleni Psaltis on the significance of Japan’s Olympic mascots that were introduced on March 1, 2018.

  • Interview about changing modes of masculinity with Hida Misako, published in President Inc., a major Japanese business magazine.