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Publications List

Either scroll down the list of publications or use the buttons to jump to the relevant section. Publications are in date order, most recent at the top of each section.

Books

Articles

Book Chapters

Reviews

Translations

As Editor

Prizes/Awards

Grants

Media Articles

Work in Progress

 

Books

1) Japan's Contested War Memories: the 'memory rifts' in historical consciousness of World War II (Routledge 2007; paperback 2008). Published reviews are available here.

 

Articles

Internationally Refereed Academic Articles

5) 'Family, Friends and Furusato: "Home" in the formation of Japanese war memories' in Japan Focus, online.

4) 'Reporting the "Comfort Women" Issue, 1991-1992: Japan's contested war memories in the national press' in Japanese Studies 26.1 (2006), pp. 99-112.

3) 'Do you really want to know what your uncle did? Coming to terms with relatives' war actions in Japan' in Oral History 43.1 (2006), pp. 53-60.

2) 'Reporting the 2001 textbook and Yasukuni Shrine controversies: Japanese war memory and commemoration in the British media' in Japan Forum 17.3 (2005), pp. 287-309. (Winner of the Daiwa Japan Forum Prize 2006, see Prizes/Awards).

1) '"Shampoo for extra damage": making sense of Japanized English' in Japan Forum 13.2 (2001), pp. 233-247.

 

Other (Non-refereed, conference proceedings etc.)

5) 'Vietnam and Iraq in Japan: Japanese and American Grassroots Peace Activism', online at Japan Focus.

4) Memories of War Devastation: War Generation Testimony in the Hokkaido Newspaper, Proceedings of the 15th International Oral History Conference, (forthcoming, 23-26 September 2008, Guadalajara, Mexico).

3) '"Caught in the Middle": American and Japanese Perspectives on Japanese-American Experiences of World War II' in The Northern Review 33 (2005), pp. 23-42.

2) 「英語圏における日本人の歴史認識に関する『正統的解釈』:その定義と例と反論」、大学院国際広報メディア研究科、北海道大学言語文化部紀要49(2005年)、pp. 35-58.

1) 「日本とイギリスの歴史認識:『正義ではない戦争』が生み出す論争」、大学院国際広報メディア研究科、北海道大学言語文化部紀要48(2005年)、 pp. 7-23.

 

Book Chapters

1) 'Pledge Fulfilled: Prime Minister Koizumi, Yasukuni and the Japanese Media' in John Breen (ed) Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan's Past (Hurst & Co./Columbia University Press, 2007, pp. 163-88).

 

Reviews

3) Review of Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (ed, 2007) The Nanking Atrocity 1937-38: Complicating the Picture (New York: Berghahn Books) in Japan Forum 20.2 (2008), pp. 295-297.

2) Review of Kenneth Pyle (2007) Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose (New York: Public Affairs) in Japan Forum 19.3 (2007), pp. 432-4.

1) Foreword to Gregory Hadley (2007) Field of Spears (Sheffield: Paulownia Press). Plus a review on the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies.

 

Translations

3) Kurahashi Ayako (forthcoming 2009) Legacies of War Guilt in a Japanese Family: My Father's Dying Wish, Sheffield: Paulownia Press.

2) Makoto Kawazoe and Makoto Yuasa (2008) 'Action Against Poverty: Japan's Working Poor Under Attack', online at Japan Focus.

1) Tetsuya Takahashi (2006) 'The national politics of the Yasukuni Shrine' in Naoko Shimazu (ed.) Nationalisms in Japan, London: Routledge. This article is available online at Japan Focus.

 

As Editor

1) Coordinator/Editor for Japan Focus' article series on the 2008 G8 Summit at Lake Toya, Hokkaido, July 2008.

 

Prizes and Awards

1) Daiwa Japan Forum Prize 2006: Awarded to "the best article by a young scholar in volume 17" of the journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies. This resulted in a lecture tour to the UK in November 2006.

 

Research Grants

1) 'War and Memory in Hokkaido': a three-year research grant (2006-2009) from the Japanese Ministry of Education.

 

Media Articles

Since March 2008 I have had a monthly column in the Hokkaido Shinbun newspaper (called Gyoganzu, "Fish-eye view"). This section lists those articles and my other media work.

8)北海道新聞(2008年8月26日、夕刊)、魚眼図:八月十五日

7)北海道新聞(2008年8月11日、夕刊)、魚眼図:サミットと市民

6)北海道新聞(2008年7月22日、夕刊)、魚眼図:日英の犯罪

5)北海道新聞(2008年6月19日、夕刊)、魚眼図:サッカーと格差

4)北海道新聞(2008年5月16日、夕刊)、魚眼図:パブと禁煙

3)北海道新聞(2008年4月25日、夕刊)、魚眼図:交通事故死

2)北海道新聞(2008年3月21日、夕刊)、魚眼図:「ニホン誤」と「英誤」

1)北 海道新聞(2008年2月26日、夕刊)、永田町中心の「日本人の歴史認識」報道。

 

Research in Progress

The following projects are "in progress" but not yet "forthcoming":

1) A paper about the rise and decline of the coal industry in Yubari (to be presented at a symposium on Japan's Shrinking Regions, Sheffield University in July 2008).

2) An article co-authored with Greg Hadley on the use of oral history in research about Japanese war history.

Work on my War and Memory in Hokkaido project is also on-going.