This thesis aims to investigate Japanese gender stereotypes through the analysis of gender role portrayals in video commercials of the product category food and cooking, as well as by observing the use of gender specific ...

This is a thesis comparing the analysis of the compound words and overall kanji used in the pieces written by two famous Japanese Nobel-prize recipients in literature, Ōe Kenzaburo and Kawabata Yasunari. The novels in ...

Gendered language is a well-known feature of Japanese, but how is it applied by a speaker who does not fit the cisgender or heteronormative standards in society? In a 2010 study, Hideko Abe published a book titled Queer ...

Studies of Japanese translation are a common topic, and with good reason. There is extensive material to work with, and the vast differences between Japanese and many other languages creates translation challenges of ...