The Japanese Restaurant

Iori Hamada is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Monash University, Australia. Much of her work to date has been concerned with making sense of how shared systems of ideas shape people's transnational experiences, which vary by culture, race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, social status, geographical location and other variables. In 2019, Iori was awarded the Institute of Social Science and Oxford University Press Prize for her co-authored journal article titled 'Silent Exits: Risk and Post-3. 11 Skilled Migration from Japan to Australia'. In 2021, she was also awarded a Higher Education Academy Fellowship by Advance HE, United Kingdom.