Author: Kochi

Location: Miyagi University, Taiwa Campus, Sendai, Japan
(Hybrid events: Zoom webinar access available)
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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)~~~~

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Date: October 27, 2019
Time: 9:00-12:00
Venue: International House of Tokyo, Seminar room 404

Agenda:

1. Mayumi Yamamoto, “VD and Comfort Women in Java during the Japanese Occupation”
2. Kaoru Kochi, “From Hollywood Flicks to Eradicating Malaria: Screening Films in Indonesia during the Japanese Occupation”
3. Jim Collins, “Public Health education before and after the Japanese occupation: Malaria”
4. William Bradley Horton, “Health for Indonesians: Public activities of Japanese medical practitioners and public health efforts on Java (1942-1945)”

Supported by JSPS Kakenhi Fundamental Research B Grant numbers
19H01227 and 19H01321

The End of the Postwar  Indonesian Regime: Knowledge Production and Indonesia’s Foreign Interactions in the 1950s-60s (February 17, 2018; at  National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS))

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[2016-10-05] Medicine Talks (II): Perceiving Society and Individuals from the Japanese Occupation to Independent Indonesia

• Hans Pols (Sydney University) — keynote
  “Collaboration, Opportunism, and Resistance: Indonesian Physicians during the Japanese Occupation”
• Mayumi Yamamoto (Miyagi University)
  “Men, ‘Do not Approach the Dangerous!’: Military Practice for Prevention of Venereal Disease”
• William Bradley Horton (Waseda University)
  “From Shadow Work to the Front Line: Japanese and Indonesian Nurses in Java and Bali under Japanese Military Administration”
• Yamazaki Isao (Saga University)
  “Kurume-Jakarta-Palembang: Adventurous wartime explorations of Bridgestone and the Kurume Medical School”
• Moderator: Jafar Suryomenggolo (GRIPS)

October 4 Sympo Flyer v2

Location: The International House of Japan (Ropponggi)
Date & Time: December 6, 2015, 13:00-17:00

• Yamazaki Isao (Saga Univ.)
  “How Bridgestone survived the war: A focus on Wartime Business Operations in Java”
• Kochi Kaoru (Aichi Pref. Univ.)
  “The Social Landscape of Java through Cinema and Entertainment under the Japanese Occupation”
• Yamamoto Mayumi (Miyagi Univ.)
  “Dangerous Liaisons: On Ladies and Laddies in Jakarta”
• Kurasawa Aiko (Keio Univ.)
  “A Story of a Stateless Woman in Indonesia and the Greater East Asian War”
• Eveline Buchheim (NIOD/Miyagi Univ. JSPS Fellow)
  “Dutch-Japanese connections on the ground: Navigating everyday life under the Japanese occupation of Indonesia”
• William Bradley Horton (Waseda Univ.)
  “Forgotten Wartime Travelers and Invisible Employees: Japanese Women in Indonesia, 1942-45”
• Michael Montesano (ICEAS-Yusof Isyak Institute)
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[PDF] 2015-12-05 Social History of Indonesia during the Japanese Occupation