Vol. 14 No. 2 (2025): Special Issue on Building a Sustainable Japanese Studies in Malaysia: A Two-Pronged Agenda

Published: 22.11.2025

Foreword by the Managing Editor

• Editorial Note

  Asmadi Hassan, Geetha Govindasamy

  1-3

  • E1 EDITORIAL NOTE

Articles

• Learning in Online Case-Based Learning between Japanese and Malaysian University Students: Fostering Intercultural Communicative Competence in Workplace Contexts

  Hyogyung Kim

  4-17

  • C1 LEARNING IN ONLINE

• Japan Studies and Beginner Motivation in Language Learning: Exploring Authentic Materials and Pedagogical Approaches

  Kaori Kimura

  18-32

  • C2 JAPAN STUDIES

• Reinterpreting Intercultural Language Learning: Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies in an Era of Multi/Pluriculturalism

  Koji Matsumoto

  33-44

  • C3 REINTERPRETING INTERCULTURAL

• Japanese Popular Culture in the Formation of Malaysian Youth Identity and Aspirations

  Nunuk Endah Srimulyani, Rohayati Paidi

  45-62

  • C4 JAPAN POPULAR CULTURE

• Tingkah Laku Pengguna terhadap Pembelian Cardfight!! Vanguard: Tumpuan kepada Komuniti Pemain di Malaysia

  Muhammad Hadzran Md Anuar, Asmadi Hassan

  63-80

  • C5 TINGKAH LAKU PENGGUNA

• Malaysians’ Continued Consumption of Japanese Tokusatsu without Official Distribution

  Ahmad Mahmood Azman

  81-96

  • C6 MALAYSIANS’ CONTINUED CONSUMPTION