Dr. John Paine, professor of Literature in the Departments of English and Foreign Languages, has just completed editing the next volume of the Japan Studies Association Journal. This journal publishes peer-reviewed articles from across the disciplines related to Japanese culture. Included in this most recent volume (December 2009) is Dr. Paine’s essay on novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. It is one of a number of essays in this volume deriving from the 2008 faculty seminar held in Fukuoka, Japan and devoted to the interrelations of Japan, Korea, China and the West.
