Rouli Esther Pasaribu is an assistant professor in Japanese studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. She completed her doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University in the fields of Modern Japanese Women’s Literature and Gender Studies. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Japanese and Indonesian women’s literature, the image of Japanese and Indonesian women in the media, and the image of Japan in Indonesian literary works. She can be contacted via email at rouliesther@ui.ac.id and rouliesther@gmail.com.