Teaching
I am on research leave from September 2006 to August 2008. For those who are interested in courses on Japanese history, you might want to take courses taught by Professors Jeffrey Angles (foreign languages), Stephen Covell (comparative religion), Priscilla Lambert (political science), and Laura Spielvogel (anthropology). I apologize for any inconveniences. I look forward to offering modern Japanese history courses when I return.
Research
In the past years, my research has focused on war and memory in the Pacific. In particular, I examined how the perceptions of the Nanjing Massacre evolved in history writing and public memory in Japan, China, and the United States from 1937 to the present. This work was published by Oxford University Press in the spring of 2006. My next book project is tentatively titled "Remembering War, Commemorating Colonialism: A Comparative Analysis of Postwar Japanese Peace Museums and Activism." This study examines various pacifism movements in postwar Japan and war/peace museums in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Recent
Publications
Book:
The Making of the “Rape of Nanking”: History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Book Chapters:
“Refighting the Nanking Massacre: The Continuing Struggle over Memory.” In Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing, edited by Robert Sabella with a foreword by Perry Link, 154-80. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
“Victors’ Justice or a Victory for Justice?: An Historical Analysis of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial.” In Onrecht: Oorlog en Rechtvaardigheid in de Twintigste Eeuw (Twelfth Yearbook of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation), edited by Madelon de Keizer, 84-104. Amsterdam: Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie, 2001.
“A Battle over History: The Nanjing Massacre in Japan.” In The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography, edited by Joshua Fogel, 70-132. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
This essay was translated and published in Japanese: “Rekishi o meguru tatakai: Nankin daigyakusatsu wa Nihon de dō mirarete kitaka.” In Rekishigaku no naka no Nankin daigyakusatsu, translated by Okada Ryōnosuke, 101-63. Tokyo: Kashiwa shobō, 2000.
Articles in English:
“Anatomy of the Yūshūkan War Museum: Educating Japanese Youth?” Special Issue, IIAS Newsletter (International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University) 38 (October 2005).
“A War Over Words: Changing Descriptions of Nanjing in Japanese History Textbooks.” Special Issue, Asian Cultural Studies 14 (March 2005): 59-71.
“Whom Should We Remember?: Japanese Museums of War and Peace.” Journal of Museum Education 29, no. 2&3 (Spring-Summer/Fall 2004): 16-20.
“History Textbooks: For Whom and For What Purpose?” Asian Studies Newsletter 45, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 13-14.
“I Will Live Strong: New York Japanese American Experience During World War II.” Japanese American National Museum Quarterly (Summer 1998): 9-13.
Articles in Japanese:
“America ni okeru senbotsusha tsuitō.” [Commemorating the war dead in the United States.] Kikan sensō sekinin kenkyū, no. 36 (Summer 2002): 28-34.
“Kioku no kokusuika: Tero jiken to sonogo.” [Nationalizing memory: The terrorist attack and its aftermath.] Rekishi chirikyōiku, January 2002, 86-89.
“Nankingyakusatsu wa dō katararete kitaka.” [How the Nanjing Massacre Has Been Told.] Kikan sensō sekinin kenkyū, no. 24 (Summer 1999): 29-37.
Book Reviews:
Review of Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience: The Changi POW Camp, Singapore, 1942-5, by R.P.W. Havers. Social Science Japan Journal 8, no. 1 (April 2005): 151-55.
Review of Education and Political Transition: Themes and Experiences in East Asia, by Mark Bray and W.O. Lee. Pacific Affairs 76, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 97-98.
Review of The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame, by Honda Katsuichi. Holocaust and Genocide Studies 15, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 351-53.
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