2026
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2026). My first night in Japan [Special issue: Encounters between New Zealand and Japan: Celebrating seventy years of New Zealand and Japan relations and the thirtieth anniversary of the Wellington and Sakai sister-city relationship (2024)]. Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific / Journal de Droit Comparé du Pacifique, 29, 135-137.
2025
Journal - Research Article
Starrs, R. (2025). In the shadow of a murder: Religious freedom versus the social good in Japan. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Advance online publication. Retrieved from https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2025/04/14/in-the-shadow-of-a-murder-religious-freedom-versus-the-social-good-in-japan/
2023
Authored Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2023). The paradoxes of Japan's cultural identity: Modernity and tradition in Japanese literature, art, politics and religion. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 324p. doi: 10.2307/jj.7616637
2022
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2022). D. T. Suzuki's theory of inspiration and the challenges of cross-cultural transmission. In J. Breen, S. Fumihiko & Y. Shōji (Eds.), Beyond Zen: D. T. Suzuki and the modern transformation of Buddhism. (pp. 225-246). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press.
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2022). [Review of the book The awakening of modern Japanese fiction: Path literature and an interpretation of Buddhism]. Eastern Buddhist, 2(2), 91-95. [Book Review].
2021
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2021). [Review of the book The rise and fall of modern Japanese literature]. Nihon Kenkyū, 62, 216-218. doi: 10.15055/00007647
2020
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2020). Suzuki Daisetsu no reikanron: Bunka o koeta dentatsu ni idomu. In Y. Shoji & J. Breen (Eds.), Suzuki Daisetsu: Zeno koete. (pp. 329-358). Kyoto: Shibunkaku.
Starrs, R. (2020). Mishima, Bowie and the anti-metaphysics of the mask. In J. Curcio (Ed.), Masks: Bowie and artists of artifice. (pp. 74-92). Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.
2019
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2019). [Review of the book The rise and fall of modern Japanese literature]. Japan Review, 34, 238-239. doi: 10.15055/00007424
2018
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2018). Japan's perennial new man: The liberal and fascist incarnations of Masamichi Rōyama. In J. Dagnino, M. Feldman & P. Stocker (Eds.), The "new man" in radical right ideology and practice, 1919-1945. (pp. 193-214). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Starrs, R. (2018). Japanese poetry and the aesthetics of disaster. In A. M. Nguyen (Ed.), New essays in Japanese aesthetics. (pp. 285-298). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2018). [Review of the book The culture of the quake: The great Kanto earthquake and Taishō Japan]. Journal of Japanese Studies, 44(1), 203-207. doi: 10.1353/jjs.2018.0023
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Starrs, R. (2018). The Tokyo gas attack was Japan's 9/11. Fair Observer, 11 July. Retrieved from https://www.fairobserver.com/region/asia_pacific/tokyo-gas-attack-aum-shinrikyo-executions-japan-news-this-week-16521/
2017
Journal - Research Article
Starrs, R. (2017). Renga: A European poem and its Japanese model. Comparative Literature Studies, 54(2), 275-304.
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2017). [Review of the book Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses]. Japanese Studies, 37(2), 276-278. doi: 10.1080/10371397.2017.1328965
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Starrs, R. (2017, March). The meeting of Buddhism and Christianity in Silence. Verbal presentation at the Seeing Silence Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Starrs, R. (2017, June). The performance of religio-political violence in late 20th century Japan. Verbal presentation at the Performance and Performativity of Violence Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2016
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2016). La estética Zen de Muga (Ni-Ego) en el proyecto Renga de Octavio Paz. In R. Guedea (Ed.), Países en tránsito: Estudios de literatura comparada. (pp. 81-101). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Starrs, R. (2016, December). D. T. Suzuki's theory of inspiration and the challenges of cross-cultural transmission. Verbal presentation at the Reflections on DT Suzuki International Symposium: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of His Death, Kyoto, Japan.
2015
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Starrs, R. (2015, July). The aesthetics of no-self in Borges, Beckett and Paz. Verbal presentation at the Mind, Body and Self Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
2014
Edited Book - Research
Starrs, R. (Ed.). (2014). When the tsunami came to shore: Culture and disaster in Japan. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 358p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. A. (2014). Anonymous: Kojiki [Record of ancient matters]. In The literary encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company. Retrieved from http://www.staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35240
Starrs, R. (2014). Cultural responses to disaster in Japan. In R. Starrs (Ed.), When the tsunami came to shore: Culture and disaster in Japan. (pp. 1-20). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2014). [Review of the book The Japanese effect in contemporary Irish poetry]. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 16(1), 132-133. [Book Review].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Starrs, R. (2014, November). Cultural responses to the 3.11 disaster: Towards a multidisciplinary perspective. Invited presentation at the Asian Studies Workshop: Sainan: Discourses of Disaster in Japanese Media over Time, Auckland, New Zealand.
2013
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2013). [Review of the book Zen masters]. Journal of Japanese Studies, 39(1), 138-142. doi: 10.1353/jjs.2013.0008
2012
Edited Book - Research
Starrs, R. (Ed.). (2012). Rethinking Japanese modernism. Leiden, The Netherlands: Global Oriental, 549p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2012). Japanese modernism reconsidered. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Rethinking Japanese modernism. (pp. 3-36). Leiden, The Netherlands: Global Oriental.
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2012). [Review of the book Tokyo in transit: Japanese culture on the rails and road]. Japanese Language & Literature, 46(1), 79-82. [Book Review].
Starrs, R. (2012). [Review of the book Routledge handbook of Japanese culture and society]. Asia Pacific World, 3(1), 148-149. doi: 10.3167/apw.2012.030109
Starrs, R. (2012). [Review of the book Imperial Japan at its zenith: The wartime celebration of the empire's 2,600th anniversary]. Pacific Affairs, 85(3), 647-649. [Book Review].
2011
Authored Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2011). Modernism and Japanese culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 344p.
Edited Book - Research
Starrs, R. (Ed.). (2011). Politics and religion in modern Japan: Red sun, white lotus. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 352p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2011). Prince Shōtuku and Japan's ‘China complex’. In J. Fengyuan, L. Jinghua & S. Bouterey (Eds.), Cultural interactions and interpretations in a global age. (pp. 29-39). Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press.
Starrs, R. (2011). Introduction: Politics and religion in Japan. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Politics and religion in modern Japan: Red sun, white lotus. (pp. 1-27). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Starrs, R. (2011). From Mishima to aum: Religio-political violence in late twentieth-century Japan. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Politics and religion in modern Japan: Red sun, white lotus. (pp. 240-277). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal - Research Article
Starrs, R. (2011). Zen, Japan and the art of democracy. New Statesman, (7 July). Retrieved from http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2011/07/japan-essay-nature-earthquake
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2011). [Review of the book The aesthetics of Japanese fascism]. Journal of Japanese Studies, 37(1), 174-179.
2010
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. A. (2010). Naoya Shiga. In The literary encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company. Retrieved from http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12901
2009
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2009). Nashonarisuto toshite no Rafukadio Haan. In H. Sukehiro (Ed.), Haan no hito to shuhen. (pp. 608-630). Tokyo: Shinyosha.
Starrs, R. (2009). Masatomo [Monkey and Crabs ]; Ichiriki [Katatasu muri (snail)]; Maker Unknown [Okami to uchikubi (A wolf with a chopped human head)]. In R. Notman & L. Cullen (Eds.), Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. (pp. 94). Dunedin, New Zealand: Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Journal - Research Article
Starrs, R. (2009). Politics and religion in Japan. Religion Compass, 3-4, 752-769. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00163.x
Starrs, R. (2009). A devil of a job: Mishima and the masochistic drive. Angelaki, 14(3), 85-99. doi: 10.1080/09697250903407583
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2009). [Review of the book Japan's holy war: The ideology of radical Shintō ultranationalism]. Journal of Church & State, 51(3), 526-528. doi: 10.1093/jcs/csp089
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Starrs, R. (2009). Japanese modernism revisited. Proceedings of the Otago Conference on Japanese Modernism. (pp. 19). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/japanese/news/index.html
Starrs, R. (2009). Japanese modernism revisited. Proceedings of the 18th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference. Retrieved from http://www.nzasia.org.nz/NZAsiaConference_abstracts.pdf
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Starrs, R. (2009, October). National identity and global postmodernism in 21st century Japan. Verbal presentation at the Globalization and National Identity in Asia Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
2008
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. A. (2008). Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). In The literary encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company. Retrieved from http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12197
Starrs, R. (2008). Ink traces of the dancing calligraphers: Zen-Ei Sho in Japan today. In H. Johnson & C. Jerry Jaffe (Eds.), Performing Japan: Contemporary expressions of cultural identity. (pp. 11-33). Folkestone, UK: Global Oriental.
Starrs, R. A. (2008). Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972). In The literary encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company. Retrieved from http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12091
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2008). [Review of the book Modanizumu: Modernist fiction from Japan 1913-1938]. Japanese Studies, 28(3), 415-416. doi: 10.1080/10371390802446927
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Starrs, R. (2008, August). Prince Shotuku and Japan's 'China complex'. Verbal presentation at the Cultural Interactions and Interpretations in a Global Age Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2007
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. (2007). [Review of the book Neo-nationalism in Europe and beyond: Perspectives from social anthropology]. Ethnos, 72(4), 555-556. doi: 10.1080/00141840701768342
2006
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2006). Shintō versus Buddhism in the late work of Mishima Yukio. In L. Jinghua, K. Henshall & X. Hong (Eds.), Ethnic identities and linguistic expressions: Languages, literatures and cultural interaction in an age of globalization. (pp. 306-324). Beijing, China: Peoples Press.
Chapter in Book - Other
Starrs, R. (2006). An artless art, a selfless self [Shiga Naoya (1883-1971)] [Reprint from An artless art: The Zen aesethetic of Shiga Naoya, a critical study with selected translations, pp. 84-117. Surrey, England: Japan Library, 1998]. In T. J. Shoenberg & L. J. Trudeau (Eds.), Twentieth-century literary criticism. (pp. 221-236). Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale.
Journal - Research Article
Starrs, R. (2006). Lafcadio Hearn as Japanese nationalist. Japan Review, 18, 181-213.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Starrs, R. (2006, June). A ma for all seasons: The culture and mythology of 'Japanese space'. Verbal presentation at the On Space Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2004
Edited Book - Research
Starrs, R. (Ed.). (2004). Japanese cultural nationalism: At home and in the Asia Pacific. Kent, England: Global Oriental, 295p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. (2004). Introduction. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Japanese cultural nationalism: At home and in the Asia Pacific. (pp. 1-22). Kent, England: Global Oriental.
Starrs, R. (2004). Nation and region in the work of Dazai Osamu. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Japanese cultural nationalism: At home and in the Asia Pacific. (pp. 88-98). Kent, England: Global Oriental.
2002
Edited Book - Research
Starrs, R. A. (Ed.). (2002). Nations Under Siege: Globalization and Nationalism in Asia. New York: Palgrave, 330p.
2001
Edited Book - Research
Starrs, R. A. (Ed.). (2001). Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 393p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. A. (2001). The Sea of Fertility as a National-Historical Novel. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. (pp. 347-358). Richmond, UK: Curzon Press.
Starrs, R. A. (2001). Introduction. In R. Starrs (Ed.), Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. (pp. 19-35). Richmond, UK: Curzon Press.
Starrs, R. A. (2001). Girisha to Indo no aida de: bunka-teki junreisha toshite no Mishima Yukio. In T. Inoue (Ed.), Sekai no Naka no Mishima Yukio. (pp. 95-113). Tokyo: Bensei Publishers.
Journal - Research Article
Starrs, R. A. (2001). Japan, Asia, and globalization. Japan Foundation Newsletter, XXVIII(Nos. 3 - 4), 13-18.
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. A. (2001). [Review of the book Silk Road on Wheels]. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. [Book Review].
Starrs, R. A. (2001). [Review of the book A History of Writing in Japan]. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. [Book Review].
Starrs, R. A. (2001). [Review of the book Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan]. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. [Book Review].
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Starrs, R. A. (2001). Between Greece and India: Mishima as cultural pilgrim. In S. Fisher (Ed.), Nostalgic Journeys: Literary Pilgrimages Between Japan and the West. (pp. 67-78). Vancouver, Canada: Institute for Asian Research, UBC. [Full Paper]
2000
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. A. (2000). In search of the great Meiji novel: from Ukigumo to Yoake mae. In V. Mackie, A. Skoutarides & A. Tokita (Eds.), Coloniality, Postcoloniality and Modernity in Japan. (pp. 197-217). Melbourne, Australia: Monash Asia Institute.
Starrs, R. A. (2000). Girisha to Indo no aida: bunkateki junreisha toshite no Mishima. In T. Inoue, T. Matsumoto & H. Sato (Eds.), Sekai no naka no Mishima Yukio. (pp. 95-113). Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan.
1999
Journal - Research Other
Starrs, R. A. (1999). [Review of the book Child of Darkness]. Journal of Asian Studies. [Book Review].
Starrs, R. A. (1999). [Review of the book The Literacy Theory of Iwano Homei]. New Zealand Journal of East Asian Studies. [Book Review].
Starrs, R. A. (1999). [Review of the book A History of Japan]. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. [Book Review].
1998
Authored Book - Research
Starrs, R. A. (1998). Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata. London: Curzon Press, 256p.
Starrs, R. A. (1998). An Artless Art: The Zen Aesthetic of Shiga Naoya. London: Curzon Press, 1p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Starrs, R. A. (1998). Writing the National Narrative: Changing Attitudes Towards Nation-Building Among Japanese Writers, 1900-1930. In S. Minichiello (Ed.), Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930. (pp. 206-227). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
1997
Journal - Research Article
Starrs, R. A. (1997). Nation and tradition in postwar Showa fiction (1945-1970). New Zealand Journal of East Asian Studies, 5(1), 42-66.
Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings
Frellesvig, B., & Starrs, R. A. (Eds.). (1997). Japan and Korea, Contemporary Studies: Proceedings of the Fourth Nordic Symposium on Japanese and Korean Studies. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press. 304p.
1994
Authored Book - Research
Starrs, R. (1994). Deadly dialectics: Sex, violence, and nihilism in the world of Yukio Mishima. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 288p.
