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Give to a scholarship for students and children in Tohoku Japan
While everyone is graciously giving to Japan's Red Cross and other large organizations, let us not forget that many children are orphaned. To support their educational future, this special fund was set up in Yamada machi (where I first lived in Japan.)
Events
Presentations and talks delivered:
“Thoughts on Japanese War Crimes Trials, Traitors, and Sino-Japanese Relations,” lecture in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, Japan, May 21, 2013.
“Pawns of Empire ‘Revisited’: Postwar Taiwan, Japan and the Dilemma of War Crimes,” 2013 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum, International Law and Dispute Resolution:
Challenges in the Asia Pacific, May 16, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Ramen – the Noodle Soup that Changed Japan and the World,” University of Heidelberg, Germany (Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context), April 24, 2013.
“Imperial Fragility and the Pursuit of Justice in Postwar East Asia - War Crimes and Chinese International Law,” Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, February 11, 2013.
“Searching for Shame in immediate postwar East Asia: the pursuit of justice and the dilemma of benevolence,” Shame and Shaming in Twentieth Century History Conference, Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, December 6, 2012.
“Comparing Chinese War Crimes Trials of Japanese Soldiers: the KMT Versus the CCP,” National Taiwan Chengchi University, (Taipei, Taiwan), November 26, 2012.
“Unlikely Heroes: the Defeated Japanese Imperial Military and the KMT’s Survival, 1946-49,” Tunghai University (Taizhong, Taiwan), November 20, 2012.
“Getting to Trial: KMT (Kuomintang) War Crimes Tribunals and the Japanese Response, 1946-1950,” Europe Japan Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University, October 16, 2012.
“Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of RAMEN – Japan’s Favourite Noodle Soup,” book launch lecture at Daiwa Anglo-Japan Foundation, London, October 5, 2012.
“Taiwanese War Criminals: Imperial Legacy and Colonial Guilt,”（台湾人と国際法：本来の戦争犯罪は誰か), (talk delivered in English and Chinese), Shōkei University, Kumamoto, Japan; conference on Taiwanese War Criminals, September 6, 2012.
“Identity, Food and Consumerism: Charting the Movement of Ramen as a Chinese Dish to a Japanese National Icon,” History of Design Seminar, Royal College of Art, London, March 1, 2012.
“Ghosts of Imperial Japan: Chinese Nationalists, Imperial Japanese and the Curious Plot to Defend Post-war Taiwan,” Institute of Historical Research, University of London, February 2, 2012.
“Nothing to laugh at: Chinese humor and the image of Japan,” University of Sydney (Australia), co-hosted by the Australasia Humour Studies Network, December 13, 2011.
“Chinese Checkers or Japanese Imperial Chess? Postwar Japanese War Criminals and Chinese Justice,” invited keynote speech at the Japanese History Workshop Australia, Murdoch University (Perth, Australia), December 2, 2011.
“Learning to Slurp: History, Noodles and Popular Culture in Japan,” Third Thursday Lecture at the Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich, October 20, 2011.
“Love Statues: De-Construction of Japanese Imperial Monuments to War,” Imperial Sites of Memory Conference, University of St Andrews, September 2, 2011.
“What happened to Japanese soldiers in postwar China and
what did the Chinese do to them?” The Cambridge and Oxford Society of Tokyo, Japan, July 22, 2011.
“Sino-Japan Relations from the Immediate Postwar to the Cold War: Examining War Crimes through China”s “Magnanimous Policy” and the “White Group,” (終戦直後から冷戦までの日中関係：「以徳報怨」と「白団」のエピソードから戦犯問題を考察する), International Foreign Policy Studies Group, Nishogakusha University, July 21, 2011. (Delivered in Japanese)
“Postwar Sino-Japan Relations: Through the Looking Glass at Historical Studies on War Crimes and Treason Trials, (零度のエクリテュール, 戦後日中関係における: 漢奸裁判をめぐる歴史学), Aichi University, Toyohashi, Japan. July 17, 2011. (Delivered in Japanese)
“Empire”s Little Helpers: Juvenile Crime and the State in East Asia, 1900-2000,” Keynote speech at the conference, Juvenile Delinquency in the 19th and 20th Centuries: East-West Comparisons, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, March 13, 2011.
“Slurping the way to delicious: 19th and early 20th century Japanese food culture and the history of ramen,” Royal Asiatic Society, London, March 10, 2011.
"A Brief Comparison of KMT and CCP War Crimes Trials of Japanese and Postwar Political Goals in East Asia,” (日本の戦犯裁判: 日中関係の歴史を観察する), Saitama University, Japan, January 6, 2011. (Delivered in Japanese)
“The “White Group”: The Role of Japanese Imperial Soldiers in China”s Civil War and the Struggle for International Legitimacy,” Department of History, Penn State University, October 25, 2010.
“The Devil Inside: the image of Japan in 20th century Chinese humor,” Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University, October 25, 2010.
“Enemies of a Kind: Chiang Kai Shek and Okamura Yasuji's military efforts in Taiwan to retake the mainland,” SOAS conference on Taiwan history 1949-1975, September 25, 2010.
“When Empire Fails: Postwar Japanese Imperial Military Efforts in Taiwan, Re-assessing the Postwar,” National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, September 6, 2010.
“The history of sugar consumption in Japan,” at The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000 conference at the London School of Economics, July 29, 2010.
“An Unsatisfying Peace: Postwar Sino-Japan Relations and War Crimes Trials,” as part of the conference, The “Long Arc” of Sino-Japanese Relations: Chinese Perspectives on War, Cooperation, and Conflict Across Three Eras, June 17, 2010, Oxford University.
Invited panelist to the Asahi Shimbun sponsored symposium on the role of media in Japanese history (朝日新聞シンポジウム昭和報道：検証), June 4, 2010, Tokyo, Japan. (Delivered in Japanese)
“Defining the Enemy: Early Cold War Sino-Japan Relations and the Paradox of International Law, Rowan University, New Jersey (USA), April 13, 2010.
“Japanese Love Statues and Chinese Prisons: Early Cold War Sino-Japanese Relations and WWII War Crimes,” Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, Washington DC (USA), April 8, 2010.
“China's Past, China's Future”, keynote presentation at the Oundle School, Oundle, UK, March 12, 2010.
"DEALING WITH THE 'DEVIL' - Analyzing Postwar Chinese Trials of Japanese War Criminals," Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel), January 4, 2010.
“日本戰犯的審判：中日關係歷史之觀察,”(Riben Zhanfan de shenpan: ZhongRi guanxi lishi zhi guancha) (Japanese War Crimes: Observations on Sino-Japanese Historical Relations “ the case of Taiwan) at the conference hosted at Taiwan National University, 交界與游移-近現代東亞的文化傳譯與知識生產 (The Shifting Sands of Common Boundaries “ Interpretation and Production of Knowledge in Modern East Asia) September 10, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan. (Delivered in Chinese)
“Legalizing Guilt: Law and Early Cold War Sino-Japanese Relations,” in panel New Thoughts on Old Paradigms: Re-assessing the Early Cold War in East Asia, at International Convention of Asian Scholars, Daejeon, South Korea, August 7, 2009.
“The WWII Japanese and Chinese struggle for hearts and minds,” Waseda University, June 15, 2009.
“The historical baggage of Japanese war criminals in China: explaining the immediate postwar in East Asia,” lecture at Occidental College, Los Angeles (USA), April 1, 2009.
“Victim”s Justice: Early Cold War East Asia and the Pursuit of a New Order,” on the panel The Impact of China: Experience on the Construction of Modern Japanese Identity, Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Chicago, March 27, 2009.
"Devils to men and men to devils - unravelling postwar Chinese war crimes trials of Japanese POWs," Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, February 9, 2009.
“Nationalism and Popular Food Culture in Modern Japan,” SOAS Food Studies Centre, London, November 28, 2008.
“日本战犯的审判： 中日关系历史之观察,” (Japan War Crimes Trials: Observations on postwar Sino-Japan Relations) talk delivered in Chinese, History Department, Nanjing University, China, September 25, 2008.
“Eating Your Way to Democracy: Japan's Postwar Politics of Food,” Soga Japan Center Speaker Series at Western Michigan University, April 15, 2008.
"Going for the Gold: Health and Sports in Japan's Quest for Modernity," delivered at Olympian Desires: Building Bodies and Nations in East Asia; A Symposium at the University of Kansas, April 10, 2008.
“Nationalism and food in East Asia; hygiene, dining and imperial pageantry,” in the World History Seminar at St. Catharine”s College, University of Cambridge, March 6, 2008.
"拉麵與民族主義：飲食的殖民地化," (Noodles and Nationalism: the Colonization of Cuisine), talk delivered in Chinese, December 7, 2007, History Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
"The Colonization of Cuisine and the Translation of Empire," at the "Translation: East Asia and the West International Conference for Junior Scholars," December 4, 2007, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
"The Meiji restoration was a menu revolution - diplomacy and dining in early modern Japan," at the Japan Research Centre, SOAS, London, November 21, 2007.
“Adjudicating Imperialism in Postwar East Asia: War Crimes Trials and the Cold War in Japan,” at the East Asia in International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Identity: Asian Seminar Series at Oxford University, October 24, 2007.
“Noodling around Asia: the politics of eating in Taisho era Japan,” Modern Japan History Workshop, Waseda University, Tokyo, September 7, 2007.
“The Cold War in East Asia-Memory and Loathing,” at Crossing Boundaries in Cold War Studies Conference, University of Cambridge, May 4, 2007.
“A short history of Japanese cuisine and the meaning of banquets in diplomacy,” invited dinner lecture for the Shibusawa/Suntory Workshop in Cambridge on the Two Bilateral Relations with the Superpower, University of Cambridge, March 26, 2007.
“Japan's postwar circus and breadlines - national diet and demobilization,” at the Oxford Princeton Workshop, Making Order in the Post-war World: A Comparative Study of Europe and East Asia in the 1940s and 1950s, History Faculty, Oxford University, March 23, 2007.
“What do manga tell us about Japanese history and why should we care? Manga to rekishi, nani zoya?” Annual Cambridge lecture (in English and Japanese) at Chaucer College Canterbury, UK, February 2, 2007.
Torture and Intelligence – How the US forgot what it learned from the Chinese Communists
Return invitation to speak on Sino-Japanese relations and history at the Anchorage World Affairs Council, Alaska, March 31, 2006.
Presenting on Japanese wartime children's kamishibai as part of the panel on "The ‘Art’ of War: Media Representations, Propaganda, and Public Opinion in the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1931–1945," Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, April 8, 2006 in San Francisco.