Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

▼ JOURNAL ARTICLES

Journal Articles

2025. "The Myth of Meiji Modernity – A View from the Philippines." The International History Review 47 (3): 379–82.

2024. "Japan’s Complicated Presence in Southeast Asia." Current History 123 (854): 223–28.

2024. "Obituary: Josefa M. Saniel, 1925 - 2023." Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographical Viewpoints 72 (2): 301–5.

2023. “Philippine-Japan Relations: Friends with Benefits.” Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia 34. 

2018. “Japanese Popular Culture and its Re-definition from the Peripheries.” Orientaliska Studier 156 (2018). 28 – 37.

2017. “Revisiting Japanese Studies in Southeast Asia.” Border Crossing: The Journal of Japanese-Language Literature Studies 5 (1). 137 – 49.

2015. “Boy meets World: the Worldview of Shōnen Kurabu in the 1930s.” Japan Forum 28 (1): 74–98..

2005. “The Stories They Tell: Komik Strips during the Japanese Occupation Period of the Philippines, 1942-44.” Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 53 (1): 59 – 90.