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Atsushi Yamagata

University of Wollongong, Australia

Atsushi Yamagata is a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Wollongong. He completed a PhD in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong, with his PhD thesis titled “Responses to Refugees in Japan: A Critical Analysis of Media and Political Discourses”. He also works as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University, an Adjunct Lecturer at LEC Graduate School of Accounting and a part-time Japanese language teacher at ISI Japanese Language School. His main topic of research is the analysis of changing discourses surrounding immigrants and refugees in Japan. His publications include “Conflicting Japanese Responses to the Syrian Refugee Crisis”, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 15.24.2 (2017), “Perceptions of Islam and Muslims in Contemporary Japan”, New Voices in Japanese Studies, 11 (2019), “Newspaper Discourses on the Acceptance of Refugees in Japan from the 1970s to the 1980s”, Japanese Studies, 41 (1) (2021) and “A Critical Analysis of Japan’s Decision to Accept Ukrainians Following the Russian Invasion in 2022”, Refugee Survey Quarterly 42 (4) (2023).

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