Publications List

Here is an up-to-date list of all my academic and journalistic publications.

 

Books

  1. My Father’s Dying Wish: Legacies of War Guilt in a Japanese Family (Paulownia Press 2009), a translation of the book Kempei datta chichi no nokoshita mono by Kurahashi Ayako. Excerpts are available on The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  2. Japan's Contested War Memories: the 'memory rifts' in historical consciousness of World War II (Routledge 2007; paperback 2010).

 

Double-Blind Refereed Academic Articles

  1. ‘Depopulation and Financial Collapse in Yubari: Market Forces,  Administrative Folly, or a Warning to Others?’ in Social Science Japan Journal 13.2 (2010), pp. 227-40.
  2. '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.
  4. '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).
  5. '"Shampoo for extra damage": making sense of Japanized English' in Japan Forum 13.2 (2001), pp. 233-247.

 

Book Chapters

  1. 'World War II in Japan's Regions: Memories, Monuments and Media in Hokkaido' in Tito Genova Valiente and Hiroko Nagai (eds), War Memories, Monuments and Media: Representations of Conflicts and Creation of Histories of World War II. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011, pp. 14-39.
  2. Matanle, P., Rausch, A.S. and the Shrinking Regions Research Group (2011), Japan's Shrinking Regions: 21st Century Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline, Amherst, NY: Cambria Press (sections on Yubari).
  3. '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.

 

Other Refereed Articles

  1. ‘The Centenary of the Annexation of Korea in the Japanese Media’ (2011) in Japan Space Vol. 9, pp. 275-307. (Currently only available in paper version in South Korea).
  2. ‘Historiography and Japanese War Nationalism: Testimony in Sensoron, Sensoron as Testimony’, (2010) online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  3. 'The G8 Summit as "Local Event" in the Hokkaido Media', (2008) online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  4. Lukasz Zablonski and Philip Seaton, 'The Hokkaido Toyako Summit as a Springboard for Grassroots Reconciliation Initiatives: The "Peace, Reconciliation and Civil Society" Symposium, (2008) online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  5. 'Vietnam and Iraq in Japan: Japanese and American Grassroots Peace Activism', (2008) online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  6. 'Family, Friends and Furusato: "Home" in the formation of Japanese war memories', (2007) online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.

 

Unrefereed Articles/Conference Proceedings

  1. ‘Looking Back on 1965: The contemporary meanings in Japan of the Treaty on Basic Relations’, Paper given (in Japanese) at the international symposium “Rethinking Korean-Japanese relations during the Park Chung-hee era”, Kookmin University, Seoul, 19 November 2010 (text published in Korean in the symposium proceedings).
  2. ‘Memories of War Devastation: War Generation Testimony in the Hokkaido Newspaper’, Proceedings of the 15th International Oral History Conference, (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.
  4. 「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.
  5. 「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 Reviews

  1. Review of Takeo Kikkawa & Emiko Shinozaki (2010) Glocalization地域再生あなたが主役だ（日本経済評論社）in Social Science Japan Journal 15.1 (2012), pp. 132-5.
  2. Review of Julian Dierkes (2010) Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty Lessons (Routledge) in Monumenta Nipponica 66.1 (2011), pp. 195-7.
  3. Review of Hugo Dobson and Kosuge Nobuko (eds, 2009) Japan and Britain at War and Peace (Routledge) in Japan Forum 22.4 (2010), pp. 576-7.
  4. Review of Sven Saaler and Wolfgang Schwentker (eds, 2008) The Power of Memory in Modern Japan in Japan Forum 22.1-2 (2010), pp. 257-8.
  5. Review of Mutsumi Hirano (2009) History Education and International Relations: A Case Study of Diplomatic Disputes over Japanese Textbooks (Kent UK: Global Oriental Publishers) in Pacific Affairs 83.3 (2010), pp. 602-4.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Foreword to Gregory Hadley (2007) Field of Spears (Sheffield: Paulownia Press), plus a review on the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies.

 

Translations

  1. Kageyama Asako, ‘Marines Go Home: Anti-Base Activism in Okinawa, Japan and Korea’, (2010) online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  2. Fuse Yujin, ‘The Complete Withdrawal of the US Military from Ecuador: A Victory for Sovereignty and Peace in Latin America’, (2010) online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  3. Ayako Kurahashi, My Father’s Dying Wish (see Books). Excerpts available at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  4. Makoto Kawazoe and Makoto Yuasa (2008) 'Action Against Poverty: Japan's Working Poor Under Attack', online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  5. 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 The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.

 

Article Series as Coordinator/Editor

  1. Testimony and War Memories in Japan, (2010) online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  2. Alternative Summits, Alternative Perspectives: Beyond the 2008 Hokkaido G8 Summit, (2008) online at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.

 

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.

 

Research Grants

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

 

Media Articles

  1. 中日新聞（２０１０年１月２９日、夕刊）、和解と平和に向けて、「憲兵だった父の遺したもの」の翻訳。
  2. 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。


 

Gyoganzu (Hokkaido Shinbun newspaper column)

2012: 五輪の成功と課題（20 Aug), 本当の強さとは（31 Jul), 女王即位６０周年（3 Jul), 軍隊手帳（8 Feb)

2011:サッカーとケシの花（29 Nov),「３・１１の教訓」 (9 Sept), 「学力低下」への違和感 (1 Apr), サムライブルーと国際化 (28 Feb), サンデルとブレア（3 Feb)
  

2010: 大学生の怒り（22 Dec), 大学ランキング（15 Oct), 英国人の参拝（7 Sep), どれが名字？（4 Aug), サッカーの力（5 July）、 チェンジの是非（1 June), デジャビュー（23 Apr), セレブ学（ 29 Mar), 作曲家・辻井伸行（2 Mar), 笑いの文化（2 Feb), メールのコスト（6 Jan).
  

2009: 坂本龍馬と函館（30 Nov), 英語への翻訳（27 Oct), 速度制度（18 Sept), 国家と賠償（13 Aug), 選挙と騒音（30 July), 学生に学ぶ（2 July), 大型連queue （26 May), クリケットとテロ（13 April), フィリピンの歴史（16 March), 英国の厳冬（20 Feb), ギャップ・イヤー（22 Jan)
   2008: クライシス・クリスマス （25 Dec), 追悼のあり方 （21 Nov), 戦渦の記憶 （29 Oct), 人間の表現 （25 Sept), 八月十五日 （26 Aug), サミットと市民 （11 Aug), 日英の犯罪 （22 July), サッカーと格差 （19 June), パブと禁煙 （15 May), 交通事故死 （25 Apr), 「ニホン誤」と「英誤」 (21 Mar).