2026 TIFO Fellows

Alessia Cofone

University of Oxford

Who cares? The multi-directionality of care in contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture

Andrea Matafora


University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Tōkyō in crime: modes, motives, and functions of the criminal metropolis in Japanese literature of the new millennium

Arina Sydorkina

Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland

Construction of National Identity in Media Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of Japan, Russia, and the USA