Martin Nordeborg
Senior Lecturer
Department of Languages and LiteraturesAbout Martin Nordeborg
Senior lecturer Japanese
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Background/Research
With a background in education as a former primary school teacher, I have continued to be interested in education issues but now linked to Japan and the Japanese language. In the book Japan nu - strömningar och perspektiv (Japan Now - Currents and Perspectives), I wrote the chapter on schools. At a secondary school in Tokyo, I followed literature classes and researched reading habits among young people. I also wrote about young people's fascination with cell-phone novels. Otherwise, my thesis was about how, at the end of the 19th century, the first Japanese reader tried to construct the good child and, by extension, the good citizen. This was from a nation-building perspective. Since there were a lot of references to religion and morality in the textbook, I was interested in the Japanese translation of the Christian concept of God. More recently, I have focused on Strindberg and how his plays were received in Japan in the early 20th century. As the period I have studied became increasingly authoritarian, I have also looked at how modern Western-inspired theater was censored.Much of the focus of my research has been on translation studies in general and most recently on what Japanese literature has been translated into Swedish.