[2024-01-20/21] International Symposia: The Missing Links of Modern Indonesian History during the Japanese Occupation

Location: Miyagi University, Taiwa Campus, Sendai, Japan
(Hybrid events: Zoom webinar access available)
**Registration is required, please register in advance:
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Program in PDF

Day I, January 20, 2024 (Saturday)

Grand Opening (10:00 am)

International Symposium I: Digitalizing the Occupation

  • 10:15
    • Mayumi Yamamoto (Miyagi University)
      “The Necessity for Digitization of Scholarly Collections”
    • Hiroki Suguri (Miyagi University)
      “Digital Archiving of Historical Records: Web Application and Database”
    • Brad Horton (Akita University)
      “Problems and Developments in digitizing WWII materials”
    • Makoto Goto (National Museum of Japanese History)
      “Navigating the Complexities of Historical Material Digitization”
  • 12:00
    • Closing

Funded by Miyagi University Presidential Research Grants (PI Mayumi Yamamoto)

International Symposium II: People, Societies, and Institutions of the Occupation

  • 13:00
    • Mayumi Yamamoto (Miyagi University)
      “Introductory Words on Studying the Occupation”
    • Didi Kwartanada (Independent Researcher)
      “The Unlikely Advocator: The Legacy of the Japanese Occupation in Mandarin Lessons in Postwar Java”
    • Ethan Mark (Leiden University)
      “Anticolonial Fascism: Japan and the Making of the Indonesian Army”
    • Ken’ichi Goto (Waseda University)
      “Some Complementary Remarks about “Former Japanese Soldiers Who Remained in Indonesia”: Case Studies of Okinawans and “Japanese” of Former Colonies”
  • 15 minute break
  • 15:00
    • Aiko Kurasawa (Keio University)
      “The Tetanus Vaccine Experiment and Deaths of Romusha in Wartime Indonesia”
    • Tsuguta Yamashita (Cornell University)
      “Waterworks Diplomacy: Japanese (Post)imperial Development of Waterworks in Urban Java”
    • Isao Yamazaki (Saga University)
      “Itagaki Masamitsu and Reappraisal of Jakarta Ika-daigaku’s Heritage in Indonesia-Japan Relations”
    • Mayumi Yamamoto (Miyagi University)
      “The Dilemma of Two Gentlemen: Reinterpreting the Pig Cage Incident”
  • 17:00
    • closing

Research funded by JSPS 基盤研究B grants no. 16H05679 and 19H01321 (PI Mayumi Yamamoto)

Day II, January 21 (Sunday)

International Symposium II: People, Societies, and Institutions of the Occupation

  • 10:00
    • Mayumi Yamamoto (Miyagi University)
      “Re-opening”
    • Yumiko Himemoto (Independent Scholar)
      “Factors Uniting the Three Separately-Administrated Territories: Networks of Indonesian Intellectuals during Japanese Military Administration”
    • Kaoru Kochi (Kanda Univ. of Intl. Studies)
      “The Japanese Occupation in the History of Indonesian Films”
    • Brad Horton (Akita University)
      “Yuji Isobe—A Forgotten Japanese Journalist among Indonesians”
  • 11:30
    • Comments and closing

Research funded by JSPS 基盤研究B grants no. 16H05679 and 19H01321 (PI Mayumi Yamamoto)

International Symposium III: Malaria and Medicine during the War

  • 12:45
    • Brad Horton (Akita University)
      “Opening”
    • Takashi Sakata (Ishinomaki Senshu University)
      “Compiled Information on Malaria Studies by the Japanese Army and Navy before and during the Pacific War”
    • Andrew Goss (Augusta University)
      “The War of Antimalarials: Treating Malaria with Quinine, Atabrine and Plasmochin in Southeast Asia during WWII”
    • Brad Horton (Akita University)
      “Obat Asli: Indonesian Doctors, the Jamu Commission and Alternative Medicines for Malaria from Local Indonesian Materials during World War II”
    • Isao Yamazaki (Saga University)
      “Introduction to New Documents on Colonel Inoue’s Return from the Malaria Wars”
  • 14:30 Break
  • 14:45
    • Mayumi Yamamoto (Miyagi University)
      “Chrysanthemum as a Sword: The Malaria War in Japanese Military Occupied Indonesia”
    • Adrian Agahari (Tamagawa University)
      “Malaria Prevention and Medication for Indonesians in the 1920s –1930s: A Perspective from Raden Soesilo’s Medical Researches”
    • Kochi Kaoru (Kanda Univ. of Intl. Studies)
      “Socializing public health and the prevention of malaria through films”
    • Discussion and Conclusions

Research funded by JSPS 基盤研究B grants no. 19H01227 and 22H00633 (PI William B Horton)

Part IV: Grand Closing

  • 16:45
    • Ethan Mark (Leiden University)
      Final Comments on Studying the Missing Links
    • Closing

~~~~Exhibition of Collected materials being digitized (January 20-21)~~~~