
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