Participants Profiles

Susan L. BURNS, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of History and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

The University of Chicago

slburns@uchicago.edu

Research Fields

Social and Cultural History of Early Modern and Modern Japan

· Gender and women’s history

· Medicine, public health, and the body

· Nativist and Confucian discourses on society and culture

Education

· University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1994, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

· Osaka University, Research Fellow, Jan. 1989- August 1991, Japanese History

· Jochi University (Tokyo), M.A., 1986, Comparative Culture

· College of William and Mary, B.A., 1982, East Asian Studies and History

Academic Appointments

· Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago, appointed 9/2018

· Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago, appointed 9/2002-9/2018

· Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 9/2001-8/2002

· Instructor and Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 1993-2001

· Instructor, Department of History, Connecticut College, 1992-1993

Publications

Monographs and Edited Volumes

· Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Duke University Press,
2003).

· Co-edited with Barbara Brooks, Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium, 1868-1952 (University of Hawaii Press, 2015.

· The Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan, forthcoming from the University of Hawaii Press, May

2019.

Recent Peer-reviewed Articles and Essays

· "Sexual Violence and the Evidential Body: Forensic Medicine, Gender, and the Courts in Modern Japan," article for a special issue of Osiris on “Medicine and Law,” edited by Helen Tilley. (forthcoming)

· "Reinvented Places: Tradition, Family Care, and Psychiatric Institutions in Japan," Social History of Medicine, 25 September 2017.

· Susan L Burns, “The Japanese Patent Medicine Trade in East Asia: Women’s Medicines and the Tensions of Empire” in Angela Ki Che Leung and Izumi Nakayama Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017), 139-165.

ISOMAE Jun'ichi, Ph.D.

Office: International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Tel: 81-75-335-2222 E-mail: icb74921@nifty.com

Specialized Fields & Research Interests

Religious Studies, Critical Theory, The concept of the divine as well as the phenomenon of bias (discrimination)

Degree
2010 Ph. D. in Religious Studies University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Professional Experience

2015- present Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan

2010- 2013 Visiting Professor, Center for Religious Studies(CERES), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Selected Publications

Books (in Japanese & English)

・Shisha no Zawameki Hisai-Chi Shinko-Ron [Disquiet Voices of the Dead: On the Religious practice in Northeast Japan], Tokyo: Kawadeshobo-Shinsha, 259 pages, 2015.

・Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō, Leiden: Brill, 474 pages, 2014.

・Iki no Shiko: Tasha, Gaibusei, Kokyo [Thoughts on Threshold: Others, Exteriority and Homes], Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 564 pages, 2013.

・Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture, London: Equinox Publishing, 174 pages, 2010.

Articles & Book Chapters

・“Revering Heaven and Prostrating before the Earth: History of the Shinto Fushimi Inari Great Toyo Church,” In: Michael Wachutka, Monika Schrimpf, Birgit Staemmer (eds.), Religion, Politik und Ideologie, München: Iudicium, 2018, pp.87-102.

・“Religion, Religious Studies, and Shinto in Modern Japan,” In: Richard King (ed.), Religion, Theory, Critique, New York: Columbia University Press, 2017, pp.87-96.

・“The Conceptual Formation of the Category ‘Religion’ in Modern Japan: Religion, State, Shintō,” In: Journal of Religion in Japan, Vol.1(3), Boston: Brill, 2012, pp. 226-245.

Yoh KAWANO

UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education

Research Coordinator, Spatial Visualization

5308 Math Sciences, Box 951557, MC 155705

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1557

UCLA Urban Planning Department

PhD Candidate

phone: 310-903-9394, email: yohman@gmail.com

Academic Employment

2007-Present UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education

2012-16 UCLA Urban Humanities

2011-16 UCLA Center for Digital Humanities

1997-2007 UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge

Education

2015-Present PhD in Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles

Dissertation title: "Human Error: the Forgotten Narratives of Fukushima"

1995-97 Maser of Arts, Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles

1990-94 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, International Christian University, Tokyo Japan

Selected Publications

Forthcoming Kawano, Yoh. "Narratives of a Non-urban Humanity" (short essay). Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City. MIT Press.

2018 Hirano, Katsuya, Yoshihiro Amaya, and Yoh Kawano. "'Save the Town': Insolvable Dilemmas of Fukushima's 'Return Policy'." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 16 (3).

2017 Hirano Katsuya, Yoshihiro Amaya, and Yoh Kawano. "Reconstruction Disaster: the Human Implications of Japan's Forced Return Policy in Fukushima." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 15 (7).

2016 Kawano, Yoh, Arfakhashad Munaim, Jun Goto, Yugo Shobugawa, and Makoto Naito. "Sensing Space: Augmenting Scientific Data with Spatial Ethnography." GeoHumanities 2, no. 2 (July 2, 2016): 485-508.

2013 Presner, Todd, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano. HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities. Harvard University Press.

2012 Yoh Kawano, David Shepard, and Yugo Shobugawa. "A Map for the Future: Measuring Radiation Levels in Fukushima, Japan." Goto, Jun, et al, in Proceedings of International Symposium on Radiation Detectors and Their Uses. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan.

Sergey KUZNETSOV, Ph.D.

Professor, Head of the Department of World History and International Relations, Irkutsk State University
E-Mail: s.kuznetsov@mail.ru
Tel. (3952) 241974 (of.)
He was born on March 4, 1956 in Irkutsk (Russian Federation). In 1978 he graduated from the Historical Faculty of the Irkutsk State University (ISU) and was accepted as an intern by a researcher at the Oriental Faculty of the Leningrad State University. Since 1984 has been Ass. Professor, and since 1986 an associate professor at the department of the New History and International Relations of the ISU. He became a professor at the Dep’t of World History and International Relations at the ISU in 1995. In 1996 he was elected the head of the Dep’t  of Modern National History of the ISU.  Since 2000, he has been Dean of the History Faculty of the ISU, and since October 2008, Head of the Dep’t  of World History and International Relations of the ISU.
Education
1979-1982       Post-graduate student of the Department of General History, Irkutsk State University
1982 –              Assistant of the Dep’t of General History of the ISU
1984-               M.A. Tomsk University, defended his thesis for a master's degree in general history on the topic "Anglo-Japanese
relations (1945-1964)"
1994                Ph.D. defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Japanese prisoners of war in the USSR (1945-1956"), Irkutsk
University
Research interests
history of Russian-Japanese relations, the history of Japanese studies and Oriental studies in Siberia, and the historiography of international relations.
Publications
He is the author of more than 330 scientific publications in Russia, the USA, England, Japan, Mongolia, France, Poland, Korea and
China.
Author of monographs: クズネツォフ S.I. 『シベリアの日本人捕虜たち』、集英社、東京,1999; クズネツォフ S.I. 『完訳. シベリアの日本人捕虜たち』旭川, 廣本印刷株式会社2000. Memory and Identity: Japanese POWs in the Soviet Union // Japan and Russia. Three Centures of Mutual Images. – Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2008 (coauthor).
Awards and Grants
He received grants: in 1997 - a grant from JSPS (Japan) for a scientific internship at the University of Tsukuba (1997-1998). In 2000 - a grant from Soros for work in the archives of the Central European University. Visiting Professor of the Center for Northeast Asian Studies (NEAR), Shimane University (Japan) 2001, 2003, 2004, Fellow JSPS Fac. of Letters, University of Hokkaido (2007-2008). In 2017-2018- appointed professor of Eurasian-Slavic Research Center of University of Hokkaido.
Membership
Head of the Dissertation Councils on Historical Sciences at the ISU and the Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology (Ulan-Ude). Member of the Academic Council of the Historical Faculty of the ISU. Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation.
Member of the Scientific Council of the Interregional Institute of Social Sciences (Irkutsk). Member of the editorial board of the “Journal of Slavic Military Studies” (USA), “Bulletin of the Irkutsk University” (IGU), “Bulletin of the Laboratory of Ancient Technologies” (IrSTU), Bulletin of the Buriyat Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Science (UlanUde), Japan Studies (http://www.ifes-ras.ru/js). Supervises postgraduate study. Under his leadership, 14 candidate and doctoral dissertations were defended.

Ivo PLŠEK

Masaryk University, Lecturer in Department of Japanese Studies Arna Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno Phone: +420 774 987644
ivoplsek@gmail.com
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. (to be completed in 2019/2020)
Dissertation title: Japan and Germany after 1945: Parties, Politicians and Legacies of World War II
M.A. Political Science

KDI Public School of Management and Policy, Seoul

M.P.P. International Relations and Development Studies, summa cum laude

University of Economics, Prague

M.A. International Relations; Minor: Political Theory, with highest honors

B.A. Economics - International Economic Relations, with highest honors

Charles University, Faculty of Law LL.M. (incomplete)

As a visiting researcher/fellow:
The University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science - Japan Foundation Fellow (2011 – 2012 and in 2017)
Free University of Berlin, Friedrich Meinecke Institute - DAAD Fellow (2012 - 2013)
Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics, Tokyo

- JSPS Fellow and Waseda Anniversary Junior Visiting Research Fellowship (2013 - 2014)
Johns Hopkins University - American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

- Harry & Helen Gray/AICGS Reconciliation Fellow (Summer 2016)

PUBLICATIONS
Essays:

"Compare or Not to Compare? Or How to Compare? The Problems in Contemporary German-Japanese
Memory Discourse.” American Institute for Contemporary German Studies – Johns Hopkins University
(16 November, 2016)

"Exit, Voice, and Refugees: A Case Study to Understanding Political Stability and Emigration in North Korea in
Mobile Subjects: Boundaries and Identities in Modern Korean Diaspora, Yeh Wen-hsin ed., IEAS Press - U.C.
Berkeley (2013), Peer-reviewed

Reviews:

“World War Two Legacies In East Asia - China Remembers the War” by Chan Yang (JEAS, 2019)
“Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and The Asia-Pacific War” by Shin and Sneider (Pacific Affairs, 2018)
“The San Francisco System and its Legacies” by Kimie Hara (Pacific Affairs, 2017)

“The Politics of War Memory in Japan” by K. Szczepanska (Pacific Affairs 2016)
“Imperial Eclipse: Japan’s Strategic Thinking About Continental Asia” by Yukiko Koshiro (JEAS, 2016)
“Sugisaranu kako to no torikumi : Nihon to Doitsu” by Satō Takeo (Social Science Japan Journal, 2015)
"War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II" by Thomas Berger (Social Science Japan Journal, 2015)
“Confronting Memories of World War II: European and Asian Legacies" by Chirot, Seinder and Shin (Pacific
Affairs, 2015)
"Sugamo Diary" by Ryoichi Sasakawa (JEAS, 2015)
"Yasukuni Shrine, the war dead and the struggle for Japan's past" by John Breen (JEAS, 2014)
“History textbooks and the wars in Asia: divided memories" by Shin and Sneider (Pacific Affairs, 2013)
“Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea" by Noland and Haggard (Journal of Korean
Studies, 2011)

Sherzod M. MUMINOV, Ph.D.

School of History, University of East Anglia

Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom

phone +44 1603 592433

email s.muminov@uea.ac.uk

website http://muminov.net

Education

2011-2015 Ph.D. East Asian History University of Cambridge, UK

2008-2010 M.A. International Area Studies University of Tsukuba, Japan

2005-2006 M.A. International Politics (research) University of Manchester, UK

2000-2005 B.A. International Relations UWED, Uzbekistan

Academic Appointments

09/2017-present Lecturer in Japanese History, University of East Anglia, UK

10/2015-08/2017 Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK

09/2013-11/2014 Visiting Research Fellow, Hosei University, Japan

04/2009-11/2010 Teaching Assistant, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Publications

Book

Eleven Winters of Discontent: the Siberian Internment and the Making of the New Japan, 1945-1956. Cambridge University Press (contact signed, forthcoming 2020).

Articles

"Horobita teikoku no gunjin--Beikoku senryōka (1945-1952) no Nihon ni fukuin shite kita Shiberia yokuryūsha," (Japanese) [Soldiers of the Fallen Empire: Returnees from Siberia in US-Occupied Japan, 1945-52] Gunji shigaku, 53: 3 (2017): 76-86.

"From Imperial Revenants to Cold War Victims: 'Red Repatriates' from the Soviet Union and the Making of the New Japan, 1949-1952." Cold War History 17:4 (2017): 425-442 <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14682745.2017.1324849>.

"Categorizing Victimhood: Manchukuo and the Gendered National History of the Japanese Empire's Violent Collapse in Northeast Asia." Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context 10:1 (2017): 23-40.

Edited volumes

Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov, eds., Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriations, Redress and Rebuilding (forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov, eds., The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia: Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife, Abingdon: Routledge, 2017.

Book chapters

"Prejudice, Punishment, and Propaganda: Post Imperial Japan and the Soviet Versions of History and Justice in East Asia." In The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia: Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife, edited by Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov, 146-164. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017.

"Siberian Internment and the Transnational History of the Early Cold War Japan, 1945-1956." In Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration and Grass-Roots Movements, edited by Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary and Shinnosuke Takahashi, 71-95. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

"Kan Sueharu no gisei, akagari to nihon ni okeru soren kara no hikiageshatachi." (Japanese) [Kan Sueharu's Sacrifice: Red Scare and Siberian Internees in Japan]. In Nichiro kankei: rekishi to gendai, edited by Shimotomai Nobuo, 113-133. Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 2015.

Languages

English Native level fluency

Japanese Fluent (JLPT Level N1)

Russian Native

Turkish Fluent

Uzbek Native

Zuzana ROZWALKA, Mgr.

Department of Theatre Studies, Masaryk University

E-mail: rozwalka@mail.muni.cz

Research Fields and Themes:

Japanese theatre and performing arts, early contacts with Japan and Japanese culture in the Czech lands, the geisha stereotype.

Education:

2011-present Ph.D. student, Masaryk University, Department of Theatre Studies

2001-10 Master (Japanese philology), Palacky University, Faculty of Arts

2007-8 MEXT Scholarship--research program in Japanese Language and Culture, Osaka University

Publications:

"Women as Men, Men as Women: Cross-dressing in Japanese Theatre," Dálný východ, 2016, 6 (2).

Zeyer's "kyogen" Lasky div. Theatralia, Masaryk University, 2019, 22 (1).

SATŌ Hiroo, Ph.D.

Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University

Tel: 81-22-795-6066 e-mail: hiroo@m.tohoku.ac.jp

Academic Posts:

2001- present Tohoku University, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Professor

1992 – 2001 Tohoku University, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Associate Professor

1989—1992 Morioka College, Faculty of letters, Associate Professor

Education:

2000 Tohoku University, PhD

1978 Tohoku University, Master of Arts

1976 Tohoku University, BA

Books & Papers (selected):

2018 “The Dead Who Remain: Spirits and Changing Views of the Afterlife” in Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan, London, Bloomsbury.

2018 Shinkoku Nippon（神国日本） Tokyo, Koudansya-Gakujyutubunko.

2017 Whereabouts of the Spring (春の消息) with Yū Miri. Tokyo: Daisanbunmeisha.

2016 "The Emergence of Shinkoku Ideology in Japan," in Buddhism and Nativism, Leiden, Brill.

2015 Bride of the dead（死者の花嫁）Tokyo, Genki-Shobo.

2013 “Where to next for Shinkoku thought?” in Contemporary Japan 25(1), Journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ).

2012 “Kami that Beckon from the Far Shore,” in Bulletin of Death and Life Studies 8, Tokyo University, Tokyo.
2011 “Changes in the Concept of Mountains in Japan,” in Cahiers d'Extreme-Asie 18, Kyoto.

2008 Destination of the Dead（死者のゆくえ）. Tokyo, Iwata-Shoin.

Morgaine SETZER

Faculty of East Asian Studies, Department of Japanese History

Universitätsstraße 134, 44799 Bochum, Germany

phone: 0049 234 32 21857

email: morgaine.setzer@rub.de

Academic employment

2017 – present Research associate in the department of Japanese History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

06/2017 – 10/2017 Research associate in Japanese Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany

2010 – 15 & 2016 – 17 Student & graduate assistant in the field of Cultural History and History of Ideas, Japanese Studies,

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Research interests

Early-modern cultural history and history of ideas, with a focus on the reception of gunki monogatari, their literary re-creations and historiographical features

Education

05/2018 - present PhD student in Japanese Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

2015 – 2016 Scholarship by German Academic Exchange Service, Rikkyo University, Tokyo

2014 M.A. in Japanese Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

08/2013 – 10/2013 Short-term grant by Japan’s German Academic Exchange Service Tomo no kai, Tokyo

2011 B.A. In Japanese Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

TAKAKURA Hiroki, Ph.D.

hiroki.takakura.a8@tohoku.ac.jp

Academic Posts

2013-present: Professor, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University

2017 to present: Director Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University

2018 to present: Special Advisor (for Research) to President of Tohoku University

2017 to present: Member of Science Council of Japan

2018 to present: Foreign Member of Science Academy of Sakha Republic, Russian Federation

Education

1999 Doctor (Social Anthropology) Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

1994 Master (Social Anthropology) Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

1992 B.A. (Japanese History) School of Humanities, Sophia University, Japan

Selected Publications:

Takakura, Hiroki 2019 "The Anthropologist as Both Disaster Victim and Disaster Researcher: Reflections and Advocacy." S. Bouterey and M. Lawrence eds. Crisis and Disaster in Japan and New Zealand: Actors, Victims, and Ramifications. New York: Palgrave Macmmilion, pp. 79-103.

Takakura, Hiroki 2018 "Local Agricultural Knowledge as Time Manipulation: Paddy Field Farmers after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011." Asian Ethnology 77 (1/2): 257-284.

Takakura, Hiroki, 2016 "Limits of Pastoral Adaptation to Permafrost Regions Caused by Climate Change among the Sakha People in the Middle Basin of Lena River." Polar Science 10-3: 395-403.

Takakura, Hiroki 2012 Arctic pastoralist Sakha: Ethnography of Evolution and Micro-adaptation in Siberia [in Japanese]. Kyoto: Showado.

Takakura, Hiroki 2000 Ethnography of Siberian Socialism: The Landscape of Reindeer Herder [in Japanese]. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan University Press.

Awards　　　

3 November 2012: Second Book Award of Japan Consortium of Area Studies ("Arctic Pastoralist Sakha: Siberian ethnography of Evolution and Micro-Adaptation" by Hiroki Takakura, Kyoto: Showado)

13 July 2012: 27th of Encouragement Award of Daido Area Studies for the development and new perspectives for Siberian studies provided by Daido Life Foundation.

8 December 2009: Display Design Award 2009 for the of Ethnographic Photo Exhibition "Reindeer!, Reindeer!!, Reindeer!!!”,

12-14, December 2008, provided by Japan Design Space Association

YASUI Manami, Ph.D.

International Research Center for Japanese Studies

3-2 Goryo Oeyama-cho, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 610-1192 Japan

e-mail: m-yasui@nichibun.ac.jp

RESEARCH FIELDS

folklore, cultural anthropology

CURRENT RESEARCH THEMES

Gender and Human Reproduction

Imagining and Developing Images of the Body in Medicine, Art, and Folk Religion

EDUCATION

Osaka University, Doctor of Literature (Ph.D.), 1997, Cultural Anthropology and Japanese Folklore

Osaka University, M.A., 1993, Cultural Anthropology and Japanese Folklore

Osaka University, B.A., 1990, Cultural Anthropology and Japanese Folklore

EMPLOYMENT

2017-present Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

2011-2017 Professor, Department of Archaeology and Folklore, Tenri University

2002-2011 Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Folklore, Tenri University

Feb.-Mar. 2009 Visiting Professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, France.

1998-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology and Folklore, Tenri University

PUBLICATIONS
Books (in Japanese)
Gurīfu kea o mijika ni-Kodomo o ushinatta kanashimi o idaite (Intimate grief care: embracing sorrow at the loss of a child), Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2018
Kaii to Shintai no Minzokugaku; Ikai kara shussan to Kosodate wo toinaosu (Folklore Studies of the Spiritual and the Body: rethinking of childbirth and childrearing from the spiritual world), Tokyo: Serica Shobo, 2014.
Shussan kankyo no Minzokugaku: Dai sanji osan kakumei ni mukete (The Folkloristics and Cultural Anthropology of Childbirth), Kyoto: Showado, 2013

Articles in English
Where yōkai enter and exit the human body: from medieval picture scrolls to modern folktales in Japan,” in Studies in Japanese Literature and Culture (Kristopher Reeves, tansl.) , pp.61-72. Mar. 2019
“Depictions and Modellings of the Body Seen in Japanese Folk Religion: Connections to Yokai Images,” in Advances in Anthropology, Special Issue on Folk Life and Folk Culture (Walter Edwards, transl.), pp. 79-93. Apr. 2017
“The Glocalization of Childbirth in Japan and Palau,” in The Perspective of Glocalization Addressing the Changing Society and Culture under Glocalization. Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University, by Tomoyuki UESUGI and Matori YAMAMOTO ed. pp. 59-81. 2016

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