The Department of English Studies is excited to announce the fifth issue of Angles, a student journal of new writing, published in March of 2020.
Over the course of five issues, the editorial team at Angles has published more than 100 pieces of student writing. During that time, a dedicated group of student editors worked to gather material, consult with writers, and design and layout the journal for printing.
The fifth issue is our largest, most ambitious issue yet! It contains more than twenty pieces of writing that span a variety of writing genres, including personal essays, senior thesis excerpts, as well as fiction and poetry.
Angles endeavors to be a place where ideas can be explored openly, an outlet equal in spirit to the diverse range of interests and perspectives present among the students of the Department of English Studies. Its defining mission is to offer students an opportunity to experience the publishing process and showcase their work.
To read our work we can be found online at www.anglesjournal.org
When campus reopens, copies are available in the campus Kinokuniya bookstore, from Angles editors and Department of English Studies faculty.
If you are interested in writing for the journal or working as an editor, please contact us at email hidden; JavaScript is required
Cover Photo by Miteki Takeyama
The Angles Editorial Team (Fifth Issue):
Senior Editors:
Leia Gorman, Minjia Hu (Binka Ko), Juichi Kanno, Serina Sugiyama, Miteki Takeyama, Risako Tominaga
Assistant Editors:
Azumi Kondo, Nina Miyamasu, Yulia Tachikawa, Mao Watanabe, Haruna Yokoi
Faculty editor:
Marc Kaufman
Contents
ESSAYS AND NARRATIVES
Serina Sugiyama, Women’s “Lib” is the Tasty “Rib”……4
Azusa Suzuki, Stories that the Darkness Told Me……36
Aoi Okamoto, Dancing Through Life……66
Nina Miyamasu, Summers in Hartlepool……83
Seira Sakumoto, A Gate……97
Shoko Tsukamoto, Between Two Islands……141
FICTION AND POETRY
Ken Wong, Good Morning, Good Night……7
Yulia Tachikawa, Poems…….23, 152
Emily Molinaro Fukuda, Hydrangeas in the Sky……40
Ana Carolina Meira de Souza, moon path……69
Sena Hanaishi, You Are Ignis. ……86
Christen Abbie Jean Carmona, Sun and Rain……127
Juichi Kanno, Across the Sea……134
Miteki Takeyama, The Concussion……154
RESEARCH PAPERS, SENIOR THESIS AND SEMINAR PAPER EXCERPTS
Kaori Mutsukado, “An Inconvenient Era for Us Men”……10
Asuka Nagasawa, Systematic and Individual Racism in Education in Japan……25
Risako Tominaga, Wilhelm Heine and Orientalism……47
Chelsea Kumono, The Roots of Gender Inequality in Japan……73
Yue Ran, Cupboard Girl……100
Yuka Takatani, The Dual Nature of White American’s Representation of Native Americans……110
Azumi Kondo, Not So Much a Happily Ever After, After All……145
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DEGREES
Manami Miyazaki, Translating Miyazawa Kenji……61
Nana Nabeshima, Little Girl……65
Aina Tanaka, Me as a Novice Researcher……131
Haruna Yokoi, Listen Up……166
