Writing
Publications and translations.
The complete and current list of my publications is on the University of Edinburgh’s Research Explorer.
Books
Political Thought and Japan's New Left Movements
Political Thought and Japan's New Left Movements: Transformations in Radical Theory
The Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against Order in Postwar Japan
The Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against Order in Postwar Japan
The United Red Army on Screen
The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and the Politics of Memory
Perkins, Chris, and Ferran de Vargas, eds. 2026. Political Thought and Japan’s New Left Movements: Transformations in Radical Theory. SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Perkins, Chris. 2024. The Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against Order in Postwar Japan. New Directions in East Asian History. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Perkins, Chris. 2015. The United Red Army on Screen: Cinema, Aesthetics and the Politics of Memory. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal articles
Perkins, Chris, and J. Reig. 2020. ‘An Investigation into Cultures, Concepts and Understandings of Japanese Studies in the UK.’ Japan Forum. Published online 4 November 2020.
Perkins, Chris. 2019. ‘Kon Satoshi and Japan’s Monsters in the City.’ Nordlit 42: 141–52.
Perkins, Chris. 2019. ‘From the Ashes of the Great Kantō Earthquake: The Tokyo Imperial University Settlement.’ Japan Forum 31 (3): 408–33.
Perkins, Chris. 2017. ‘The Starting Point of the Student Movement.’ Asiatische Studien 71 (2): 683–95.
Terasaki, S., and Chris Perkins. 2017. ‘Characteristics of Cosmopolitan Consumers with a Global Identification: An Exploratory Analysis of Japanese Consumers.’ International Journal of Marketing and Distribution 1 (1): 1–13.
Perkins, Chris. 2013. ‘Flatness Depth and Kon Satoshi’s Ethics.’ Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 4 (2): 119–33.
Perkins, Chris, and C. Rumford. 2013. ‘The Politics of (Un)fixity and the Vernacularization of Borders.’ Global Society 27 (3): 267–82.
Perkins, Chris, and A. Cooper. 2012. ‘Borders and Status-Functions: An Institutional Approach to the Study of Borders.’ European Journal of Social Theory 15 (1): 55–71.
Perkins, Chris. 2011. ‘Inheriting the Legacy of the Souls of the War Dead: Linking Past, Present and Future at the Yūshūkan.’ Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 11 (3), article 6.
Perkins, Chris, and C. Frazier-Crawford Boerl. 2011. ‘The Political Pluralisation of American Evangelicals: How Old Media Built a Movement and Why the Internet Is Poised to Change It.’ International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church 11 (1): 66–78.
Perkins, Chris. 2010. ‘The Banality of Boundaries: Performance of the Nation in a Japanese Television Comedy.’ Television and New Media 11 (5): 386–403.
Book chapters and encyclopedia entries
Perkins, Chris. Forthcoming. ‘Japanese Student Activism, the New Left and the Rise of Radical Protest in the “Long 1960s”.’ In Student Activism, Social Change and Democracy Since 1900, edited by D. Laqua. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
de Vargas, Ferran, and Chris Perkins. 2026. ‘Introduction: The Japanese New Left and the Politics of Rupture.’ In Political Thought and Japan’s New Left Movements: Transformations in Radical Theory, edited by Chris Perkins and Ferran de Vargas. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Perkins, Chris. 2026. ‘Nagasaki Hiroshi: Liberating Rebellion.’ In Political Thought and Japan’s New Left Movements: Transformations in Radical Theory, edited by Chris Perkins and Ferran de Vargas. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Perkins, Chris. 2025. ‘The Emergence and Impact of the New Left in Postwar Japan.’ In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Perkins, Chris. 2022. ‘Murakami’s Strange Library.’ In Libraries in Literature, edited by A. Crawford and R. Crawford, 220–32. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Perkins, Chris. 2020. ‘The Diary of Yunbogi and Japan-Korea Relations.’ In Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan-Korea Relations, edited by R. Sakamoto and S. Epstein, 111–23. Asia’s Transformations. London: Routledge.
Cooper, A., Chris Perkins, and C. Rumford. 2016. ‘The Vernacularization of Borders.’ In Placing the Border in Everyday Life, edited by R. Jones and C. Johnson, 15–32. Border Regions Series. Farnham: Ashgate.
Perkins, Chris. 2014. ‘Part-Timer, Buy a House: Middle-Class Precarity, Sentimentality and Learning the Meaning of Work.’ In Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature, edited by K. Iwata-Weickgenannt and R. Rosenbaum, 64–85. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. Abingdon: Routledge.
Cooper, A., and Chris Perkins. 2014. ‘Mobile Borders/Bordering Mobilities: Status Functions, Contemporary State Bordering Practices and Implications for Resistance and Intervention.’ In Governing Borders and Security: The Politics of Connectivity and Dispersal, edited by C. Kinnvall and T. Svensson, 14–31. Taylor & Francis.
Translations
Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke. 2025. ‘The Problem of the Cultural Sciences (Bunka kagaku mondai).’ Translated by Chris Perkins. In The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan, edited by A. W. Moore and S. Jacobowitz, 85–94. SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke. 2025. ‘The Scope of What I Can Know (Watashi no shirieru han’i).’ Translated by Chris Perkins. In The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan, edited by A. W. Moore and S. Jacobowitz, 135–38. SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke. 2025. ‘Self-Reflection (Serufu refurekushon).’ Translated by Chris Perkins. In The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan, edited by A. W. Moore and S. Jacobowitz, 139–40. SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
In progress
- The Departure of Futurology (未来学の出発)
- Maruyama Masao’s essay on the consciousness of freedom
- The Shutaisei Reader
Reviews
Perkins, Chris. 2013. Review of Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice, by Kristin Surak. H-Net Reviews.
Perkins, Chris. 2012. Review of Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland, by Noboru Ishikawa. Ethnopolitics 11 (2): 230–32.
Perkins, Chris. 2009. Review of A New Politics of Identity: Political Principles for an Interdependent World, by Bhikhu Parekh. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 9 (2): 348–49.
Other publications
Perkins, Chris. 2017. ‘Dissertations in 2nd Year? Promoting Assessment Literacy for Independent Research.’ Higher Education Academy, 39–42.
Perkins, Chris, and S. Terasaki. 2017. 外国への全般的な肯定的態度の結果要素：帰納的推論に基づく基礎理論的研究. Faculty of Economics Kyushu University Discussion Paper Series.
Terasaki, S., and Chris Perkins. 2016. ‘Antecedents for Cosmopolitan Consumers: An Exploratory Analysis of Japanese Cosmopolitans.’ In Global Marketing Conference Proceedings: Bridging Asia and the World, 851–55. Global Alliance of Marketing & Management Associations.
Perkins, Chris. 2009. ‘Fixing Subjectivities: The Politics of Belonging and Achieving the Nation.’ Politics and International Relations Working Paper 12. Royal Holloway.