Matthews, Joel ^{Person Individualisierte Person}

"I am currently full-time faculty at Surugadai University in Japan, primarily teaching East Asian modern history, minority studies and postcolonial studies. After completing undergraduate studies in Cultural Studies and Asian Studies at Murdoch University in my hometown of Perth, Australia, I completed an MA at Kobe University in Japan while researching the media and its impact on a group suicide phenomenon that emerged in Japan during the 2000s. After completing the MA program, I entered the doctoral program at New York University’s East Asian Studies department, and while continuing my study of Japan, expanded my field of research to include the Koreas, Taiwan and China. My doctoral dissertation was a social and political history of the Zainichi Korean minority in Japan, primarily focusing on Japan’s postwar black markets and the concomitant propagation of colonial discourses of Korean “criminality” as seen through both colonial era and postwar images of Koreans in Japan. I am interested in issues of race and ethnicity in modern Japan, predominantly through the lens of Zainichi Korean history, culture and politics, but also seek to make connections between Japan and other postcolonial settings in Asia and beyond."