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Dr Mikiko Ashikari is currently affiliated to Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 2001. Dr Ashikari spent a year as a visiting scholar at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, while conducting her fieldwork research between 1996 and 1997. In 2001, she was affiliated to the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Colorado at Boulder as a visiting scholar. Her specialty is gender and Japanese identity in contemporary Japan, and her research interests include representation of body, space and social memory, and media and consumer culture in Japan. Her most recent article, “Urban middle-class Japanese women and their white faces: Gender, ideology and representation”, was published in Ethos (2003: 31:1).

Dr Ashikari was awarded the Daiwa Japan Forum Prize 2004 for her article ‘The Memory of Women’s White Faces: Japaneseness and the Ideal Image of Women’ (vol:15, No.1 2003).

The Daiwa Japan Forum Prize was launched in 2001 and is awarded for the best article submitted to ‘Japan Forum’ in the last year by a junior scholar. The official journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies, ‘Japan Forum’ provides a comprehensive source of analytical articles in the field of Japanese Studies, and makes scholarship on Japan available to an international readership of specialists and non-specialists. It is published by Routledge