Teaching
I teach a range of courses in Japanese history at the undergraduate and
graduate level. Those courses include "Modern Japan," "Japanese History
through Film and Literature," "WWII in American and Japanese History,"
"Traditional Japan," and "WWII and Memory in Postwar Japan." I also teach an
undergraduate survey course in world history.
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.
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:
"For the Nation or For the People?: History and Memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan," in The Power of Memory in Modern Japan, ed. Sven Saaler (Dorset: Global Oriental, 2008), pp. 17-31.
"Advancing or Obstructing Reconciliation?: Changes in History Education and Disputes over History Textbooks in Japan," in Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and Reconciliation, ed. Elizabeth Cole (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2007), pp. 51-79.
"Wartime Accounts of the Nanking Atrocity," in The Nanking Atrocity: Complicating the Picture, ed. Bob T. Wakabayashi (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007), pp. 248-64.
"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
"Historiography of the Asia-Pacific
War in Japan." Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (http://www.massviolence.org/Historiography-of-the-Asia-Pacific-War-in-Japan).
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"The Nanjing Massacre: Changing
Contours of History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States."
Japan Focus (http://www.japanfocus.org/), (December 26, 2006).
>"Anatomy of the Y?sh?kan
War Museum: Educating Japanese Youth?" IIAS (International Institute
of Asian Studies, Leiden University) Newsletter, special issue (October
2005).
"A War Over Words: Changing
Descriptions of Nanjing in Japanese History Textbooks," Asian Cultural
Studies 14, Special Issue (March 2005), 59-71.
"Whom Should We Remember?:
Japanese Museums of War and Peace," Journal of Museum Education 29:
2&3 (Spring-Summer/Fall 2004), 16-20.
"History Textbooks: For Whom
and For What Purpose?" Asian Studies Newsletter 45:4 (Winter 2000),
pp. 13-14.
"I Will Live Strong: New
York Japanese American Experience During World War II," Japanese American
National Museum Quarterly (Summer 1998): pp. 9-13.
"Anatomy of the Yūshūkan War Museum: Educating Japanese Youth?" Special Issue, IIAS Newsletter (International Institute of Asian Stu |
