Ideas Alive – Empowering Women’s Voice through Translating Japanese Fiction

Dr Nozomi Uematsu - School of East Asian Studies

23 October, 2025 at 6:00 pm

Contemporary Japanese Women’s writing is experiencing a “boom” in translation, with special interest from younger generations. How has this “boom” happened, and who created this landscape? Dr Nozomi Lynette Uematsu from the School of East Asian Studies is joined by translators Ginny Tapley Takemori and Allison Markin Powell from the Strong Women, Soft Power collective and Kristen Vida Alfaro, Director of Tilted Axis, an independent publisher to discuss the provision and sales of Japanese women’s writing in translation.

Ideas Alive is a series of podcasts by academics from the University of Sheffield talking about their fascinating research. A podcast link will go live on the festival website on the date and time publicised. Once live the episode can be listened to anytime, with other episodes from the series, on the University of Sheffield Player