【受賞者発表】第12回ヨーゼフ・クライナー博士記念・法政大学国際日本学賞受賞者決定のお知らせ

◆Award Winners
Dr. Małgorzata K. Citko-DuPlantis
（チトコ＝ヂュープランティス　マウゴジャタ・カロリナ 氏）
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture University of Tennessee, Knoxville
（テネシー大学ノックスビル校日本文学・文化　助教授）

◆Title
"Playing with the Classics, Playing the Classics—The Cyborg Ninja Genji in the Video Game Overwatch."
 Japanese Language and Literature, Vol. 58 No. 2 (October 2024), pp. 115-157.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/jll.2024.330

◆Abstract
Tackling fundamental questions crucial for content creation in video game development, the article analyzes the cyborg ninja Genji character in an American video game Overwatch. It argues that Overwatch, while falling into global trends of Neomedievalism and techno-Orientalism, made Genji more famous and cooler (in the sense of the “Cool Japan” strategy) as a character and hero than ever before. It also emphasizes that since it is through Overwatch that most students currently access the term “Genji” online, the video game claimed the right to control the future of certain elements of premodern Japan’s cultural heritage.