Re-thinking Jōmon and Ainu in Japanese History
Abstract: For almost a century after E.S. Morse’s 1877 excavations at Ōmori shell mound demonstrated the existence of a Stone Age culture in the archipelago, it was generally accepted that the Japanese people dated back only to the Yayoi period, the time when wet-rice farming was introduced from the continent. The Stone Age was associated with pre-Japanese peoples such as the Ainu. By the 1980s, h
Problems of J. Mark Ramseyer’s “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War”: On Japan’s Licensed Prostitution Contract System - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Abstract: This article offers a critical assessment of J. Mark Ramseyer’s analysis of the wartime Japanese military “comfort women” system, “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War,” Closely examining the Japanese sources that Ramseyer cites, it finds the article flawed in distorting the evidence and in confusing the prewar system of prostitution and the wartime system. Kusama Yasoo, Jokyū to baish
Japan’s Shift to the Right: Computational Propaganda, Abe Shinzō’s LDP, and Internet Right-Wingers (Netto Uyo) - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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
Taking the Fight for Japan’s History Online: The Ramseyer Controversy and Social Media - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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
Japan’s Burakumin (Outcastes) Reconsidered: A Special Issue Refuting Ramseyer’s Interpretation - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Special Editors: Ian Neary and Saitō Naoko Coordinator: Tomomi Yamaguchi 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 t
“Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War”: The Case for Retraction on Grounds of Academic Misconduct - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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
The ‘Comfort Women’ Issue, Freedom of Speech, and Academic Integrity: A Study Aid - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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
Japan Search: Introducing a New Research Tool for Scholars of Japan and Its Region - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
The Japan Search Database At a time when many libraries are struggling to maintain their budgets and collections and fieldwork travel is restricted, access to online research databases has become more important than ever for scholars around the world. This makes the new open access research tool ‘Japan Search’(https://jpsearch.go.jp/) – launched in September 2020 – particularly welcome. ‘Japan Sea
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What role did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Soviet entry into the war play in Japan’s decision to surrender in the Pacific War? Conversations with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Special Issue: The 100th Anniversary of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake (Table of Contents)
We Do Not Live to Be Productive: LGBT Activism and the Politics of Productivity in Contemporary Japan - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Legacies of Fukushima: 3.11 in Context - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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Depictions of The Bomb and Nuclear Apocalypse in Japanese Anime - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Japan’s World Heritage Miike Coal Mine – Where prisoners-of-war worked “like slaves” - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Imperial Japanese Propaganda and the Founding of The Japan Times 1897-1904 - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
The Comfort Women and State Prostitution - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Letter to the Editors of the Review of Law and Economics: “On the invention of Identity Politics: The Buraku Outcastes in Japan” by J. Mark Ramseyer - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Early Meiji Diplomacy Viewed through the Lens of the International Treaties Culminating in the Annexation of the Ryukyus
Study-abroad in Japan under COVID-19: Emerging Parallels with a Course on Environmental Pollution - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus