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Gavan McCormack Outline Sato Masaru is a name virtually unknown outside Japan (recognized by Google and Wikipedia’s English language search engines only through footnotes from earlier texts by this author) but inescapable within Japan. He may indeed be the most prolific and widely read Japanese intellectual of the early 21st century. This short essay introduces Sato’s writings, suggesting they for
Abstract: In recent years, academic research and investigative reports have brought to light several cases of computational propaganda (i.e. orchestrated attempts to manipulate public opinion or the outcome of elections via social media), as well as proof that filter algorithms amplify right-wing conservative content on Japanese social media. Piecing together the scattered pieces of a puzzle, this
As a historian of premodern Japan active on Twitter, I seldom find myself embroiled in controversies in real time. I occasionally get pushback when I discuss the legacy of female emperors or nationalistic myths of ethnic homogeneity, but by and large, there’s little trouble. So I hardly expected any powerful backlash in February of 2021 when I retweeted an article in The New Yorker by Harvard Law
Mark Ramseyer, the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese law at Harvard, published four articles (two articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and two discussion papers) about the Buraku issue from 2017 to 2020. Responses to them were slower to emerge than the ones to his work on “comfort women”, ianfu, but in the course of the last twelve months a number of historians, anthropologists and sociolo
Abstract: This essay analyses the Japanese sword boom in popular media in the 21st century, situating Touken Ranbu, an online video game franchise, within its wider political and historical context. In the first two decades of the 21st century, government, commercial, and semi-public institutions, such as museums, extensively deployed positive depictions of Japanese swords in popular media, includ
Table of Contents To Whom It May Concern The Evidence 1. Failure to Acknowledge an Absence of Evidence 2. Use of Evidence from Primary Sources Mischaracterization of Yamazaki, Sandakan hachiban no shōkan Mischaracterization of testimony of Mun Ok-ju Selective Use of Evidence from U.S. Military Sources Mischaracterization of Japanese Home Ministry Documents Mischaracterization of Shina 1938 and Gun
Abstract: In December 2020, an article by J. Mark Ramseyer of Harvard University about the so-called ‘comfort women’ issue was published in the International Review of Law and Economics. This article caused widespread controversy amongst scholars, many of whom responded with serious criticisms of its content. On the other hand, some commentators argued that Ramseyer’s critics were seeking to suppr
A series of portraits of former “comfort women” hang on the office wall of Lila Pilipina, an organization that gathers survivors of wartime sexual slavery, in Manila. (Shallah Montero for The Washington Post) Four Letters – edited by Alexis Dudden In December 2020, Harvard Law School Professor J. Mark Ramseyer circulated his new article “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War” that was accepted fo
This pair of articles draws on talks by Tomomi Yamaguchi and Satoko Oka Norimatsu at the seminar “The ‘History Wars’ and the ‘Comfort Woman’ Issue: Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan, U.S., and Canada,” at the Institute of Asian Research, the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), hosted jointly by the Centre of Korean Research and the Centre for Japanese Research, on No
Abstract: On June 7, 2020, NHK aired a TV program to explain racial divisions in the United States, following protests after the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police. However, a computer graphic aired during the program and posted on NHK’s official Twitter account drew widespread criticism for distorting the image of black people and the reasons for their anger. NHK quickly retracted
Canada's “History Wars”: The “Comfort Women” and the Nanjing Massacre This article is based on a talk that Satoko Oka Norimatsu gave at the seminar “The ‘History Wars’ and the ‘Comfort Woman’ Issue: Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan, U.S., and Canada,” held at the Institute of Asian Research, the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), hosted jointly by the Centre of Kor
Blowing the whistle on sexual violence by Hirokawa Ryuichi, a prominent Japanese human rights journalist Introduction “Those who have power invariably attempt to conceal their victimization, so it is a journalist’s job to go and report to the whole world what they are hiding,” veteran photojournalist Hirokawa Ryuichi said in an interview with author Ochiai Keiko in the Spring, 2019 edition of Tsuh
Announcing the Success of APJ’s Annual Fund-raising Campaign Our goal: to raise $12,000 to publish the Journal and to carry out improvements in the design and functioning of our website. At a time when the international order is imploding with new conflicts erupting across the Asia-Pacific our work takes on new importance. We rely on readers, authors and supporters. Your support has allowed us to
When Shiori was 10, her mother took her to Tokyo Summerland, an indoor pool. Wearing a new swimsuit, she splashed happily in the water until she was sexually assaulted. “A man came from behind and touched me on every part of my body,” she recalls, crying at the memory. Shaking and terrified, she told the grownups but their response was bewildering. “My friend’s mother said it was because I was wea
Shirona Masakazu and Ikeda Teiichi Translation by Joseph Essertier Introduction by Nakano Koichi The original Japanese version appears at the end of this article. Introduction While it is important to note the eerie similarity of the “Japan is great” boom in the media today with that of the 1930s, as this article does, it also bears emphasizing that this is hardly a uniquely Japanese phenomenon. A
Balancing the Ballot: Going Beyond the 2018 Gender Parity Law to Encourage Women's Political Participation in Japan
Team Abe keeps saying it will try to gain public understanding of its controversial security legislation, but there are few signs that it is winning anyone over. The massive youth-led demonstration in front of the Diet on August 30, widely reported as involving more than 120,000 Japanese spanning the often-divided liberal spectrum and involving all generations, is a sign of the times.1 Demonstrato
The “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan”: A Critique A japanese translation is available. Tsuneno Yujiro Summary: Some Japanese studies scholars recently published an “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan,” to counter the revisionist atmosphere surrounding the “comfort women” issue in Japan. While the author agrees that historical revisionism should be criticized, he takes issu
UPDATED - In response to overwhelmingly positive support for the open letter and requests to sign on, we opened a new list endorsed by 464 Japan scholars. The global list of signers since May 5th is available here. Joint Statement by 16 Associations of History Scholars and Educators in Japan on the "Comfort Women" Issue is available in English translation here and in the Japanese original here. On
Reexamining the “Comfort Women” Issue 改めて慰安婦問題の本質を問う An Interview with Yoshimi Yoshiaki. Intoduction by Satoko Oka Norimatsu An Interview with Yoshimi Yoshiaki Translated by Yuki Miyamoto Introduction by Satoko Oka Norimatsu Yoshimi Yoshiaki, a leading historian of the Japanese military sex slavery system, stresses three points in an interview held in late October of 2014, as part of the Japanese
'If we don't face our past, we're bound to repeat the same mistakes.' Japanese wartime medical orderly reports on army's role in maintaining 'comfort women' system 「やっぱりね、過去をちゃんと見てないものは、また同じことを始める」慰安所と日本軍の関わりについてある衛生兵が報告 David McNeill introduction, Matsumoto Masayoshi testimony (Japanese and English transcript and video of testimony), translation by Miguel Quintana For years, Abe Shinzo, Japan’s p
Music in Japanese Antinuclear Demonstrations: The Evolution of a Contentious Performance Model 日本の反原発デモにおける音楽 論議を呼ぶパーフォーマンス様式の展開 Introduction: The Significance of Sound Demos Since Japan's triple disaster of March 11, 2011, music has served to inform and give voice to unspoken opinions in several spaces—cyberspace, recordings, festivals and concerts, and public demonstrations. 1 In particular, mus
Popes, Bishops and War Criminals: reflections on Catholics and Yasukuni in post-war Japan 法皇、司教、戦犯−−戦後日本のカトリックと靖国 Popes, Bishops and War Criminals: reflections on Catholics and Yasukuni in post-war Japan1 John Breen In November 1945, General McArthur invited two Catholic priests to GHQ to sound them out on a proposal he was poised to implement, namely the razing of Yasukuni, the Tokyo shrine dedic
Freedom of Hate Speech; Abe Shinzo and Japan's Public Sphere ヘイトスピーチ(憎悪発言)の自由ー安倍晋三と日本の公共空間 Japan’s diplomacy must always be rooted in democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights. These universal values have guided Japan’s post-war development. I firmly believe that, in 2013 and beyond, the Asia-Pacific region’s future prosperity should rest on them as well. (Abe Shinzo, Prime Minister
Straight Outta Ichimiya: The Appeal of a Rural Japanese Rapper 一宮から来たぞ! 田舎ラッパーの魅力 下流社会からこんにちは。オレら生きていいすか、お偉いさん? Hello from the lower classes! Do you mind if we go on living, proud elites? —Dengaryū feat. stillichimiya, "Yabee ikioi de sugee moriagaru" (2012) Dengaryū (Tamura Takashi, b. 1982) is one of the breakout Japanese rappers of 2012. Several music journals, including Japan's longest-running
Out With Human Rights, In With Government-Authored History: The Comfort Women and the Hashimoto Prescription for a ‘New Japan’−−人権は外、政府作の歴史は内−−慰安婦と橋下の「新日本」構想 Hopes and Dreams They exist all over Japan, like tiny sparks of light, flickering and fragile, but somehow surviving against the odds: the peace museums, the reconciliation groups, the local history movements that work to address problems of
Japanese Youth: An Interactive Dialogue: Towards Comparative Youth Research 日本の若者−−四者対談−−比較若者文化へ向けて *This article reviews and assesses two books on Japanese youth: Goodman, Roger, Imoto, Yuki, and Toivonen, Tuukka (2012) A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs, Abingdon: Routledge (216 pages, $51.95 paperback, $155.00 cloth)1 Furuichi, Noritoshi (2011) Zetsubō no Kuni no Kōfuku na
What Caused the High Cl-38 Radioactivity in the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1? 福島第一原発の1号機(タービン建屋)から検出された高濃度放射性塩素38の原因は何か? •Japanese text available What Caused the High Cl-38 Radioactivity in the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1?[1] A bilingual Japanese-English text is available here. F. Dalnoki-Veress with an introduction by Arjun Makhijani Important article update April 23, 2011 A Japanese translatio
‘Koreans, Go Home!’ Internet Nationalism in Contemporary Japan as a Digitally Mediated Subculture Rumi Sakamoto Introduction On 18 September 2009, a person using the online name of ‘xegnojw’ posted a four-minute video on YouTube entitled ‘Japanese Racists Hoot Down Korean Tourists in Tsushima’.1 It depicted members of a Japanese nationalist group harassing Korean tourists on Tsushima, a Japanese i
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