Shaun O'Dwyer - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

I have taught academic English and philosophy in Australian and Japanese universities, and am currently an associate professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University. For the past six years I have also been writing op-ed articles and columns on political and cultural issues for the "Japan Times". My writing has focused on the cultural nationalism of Japan's whaling and dolphin hunting industry, history and memory issues and international identity politics. Some of my op-ed writing has also complimented my scholarly research in philosophy, including modern Confucian thought. My book "Confucianism's Prospects" will be published by State University of New York Press in June 2019. In 2011 I began volunteering in North Japan following the tsunami of March 11th, and am currently co-director of a small disaster relief NPO called It's Not Just Mud, based in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. A number of my "Japan Times" articles have been about the international volunteer experience in the tsunami zone.

Content

Total articles 72

• Taiwan and the Australian left

  By Shaun O'Dwyer| Meanjin Verified In August 2023 Masahiro Shibaguchi, a Japanese Communist Party (JCP) assemblyman in Japan’s Takahama city and his Taiwanese partner, LGBTQIA* studies academic Ariel Ling-chun Liu, flew to Taiwan to register their marriage.[1] Unlike Japan, Taiwan recognises marriage equality, and Shibaguchi became the first Japanese politician to marry as an LGBTQIA* person.

  By Shaun O'Dwyer · Meanjin

  Sep. 12, 2024

• Inoue Tetsujirō and Modern Yangming Learning in Japan

  By Ruth Andjohn McCreery, John McCreery, Shaun O'Dwyer| shorturl.at@ IntroductionThis essay explores the relationship between Yangming Learning (陽明学 Yōmeigaku) and national morality (国民道徳 kokumin dōtoku) in Meiji-era modern Japan. The focus of the investigation is Inoue Tetsujirō, who is typically depicted as an individual who interpreted Yangming Learning through the lens of national morality.

  By Ruth Andjohn McCreery, John McCreery, Shaun O'Dwyer · shorturl.at

  May. 31, 2023

• Reinterpreting Matsumiya Kanzan: On the Interval between State Shintō and the Idea of the Three Religions

  By Song Qi, John McCreery, Shaun O'Dwyer, Ruth Andjohn McCreery| shorturl.at@ IntroductionMatsumiya Kanzan was an Edo-period thinker and a successor to the Hōjō School of military strategy. His legacy includes writings about the concept of the three religions: Shintō, Confucianism, Buddhism (神道・儒教・仏教の三教 Shintō jukyō bukkyō no sankyō). Kanzan was not the equal of Hayashi Razan, Itō Jinsai, or Ogyū Sorai; but his thinking about the three religions reveals another aspect of thought in Edo-period Japan.

  By Song Qi, John McCreery, Shaun O'Dwyer, Ruth Andjohn McCreery · shorturl.at

  May. 31, 2023

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