Akira NISHIMURA

Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo Religious Studies South Island Area Studies Sociology of War

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Papers

Nishimura A. (2022). "Applying Religious Studies Discourse during Wartime: On Katō Totsudō’s Discussion of Religious War." Religions 2022, 13(6), 533.

Nishimura A. (2021). "Cholera Epidemics and Religion in Modern Japan." Journal of religious studies 95(2): 53-74.

Nishimura, A. (2020). "Visual Expressions as a Cross-linkage Focusing on the Films of the Former Battlefield Pilgrimages." Japan oral history review, 16, 27-37.

Nishimura, A. (2019). "The Commemoration of the War Dead in Modern Japan." Numen, 66(2-3), 139-162. Nishimura, A. (2016). "Are Public Commemorations in Contemporary Japan Post-secular?". Journal of Religion in Japan, 5(2-3), 136-152.

Nishimura A. (2014). "Sensitivity to Distances : An Approach to the Recovery of Remains and the Battlefield Spiritual Commemoration from a Religious Studies Perspective." Annual report of the Center for Evolving Humanities : Study of cultural exchange, 27, 27-36.

Nishimura A. (2013). "The Engagement of Religious Groups in Postwar Battlefield Pilgrimages." Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 37, 42-51.

Nishimura A. (2012). "The Atomic Bomb Disaster in the Thought of Nagai Takashi : His Engagement in the Campaigns and His Occupational Exposure." Journal of religious studies, 86(2), 369-391.

Nishimura A. (2011). "Battlefield Pilgrimage and Performative Memory: Contained Souls of Soldiers in Sites, Ashes, and Buddha Statues." Memory Connection Journal, 1(1), 303-311.

Sueo Kuwahara, Takahiro Ozaki, Akira Nishimura. (2007). "TRANSPERIPHERAL NETWORKS: Bullfighting and Cattle Culture in Japan’s Outer Islands." Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, 1(2), 1-13.

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