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

Publication Schedule: November 2025

E-ISSN: 2462-2257

The Department of East Asian Studies’s Wilayah: The International Journal of East Asian Studies is a high-quality, open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Universiti Malaya. Wilayah provides a platform for the dissemination and exchange of knowledge through high-quality multidisciplinary research articles focusing on East Asian issues.

Volume 14 (2) was published online in November 2025 and features five accepted papers authored by ten researchers.

Published: 2025-11-22

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

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

Foreword by the Managing Editor

Editorial Note

Articles

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

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

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

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

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

Malaysians’ Continued Consumption of Japanese Tokusatsu without Official Distribution

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