Category: Symposium

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

On November 5, 2018, we held a symposium on “The Southward Movement of the Japanese from the Tōhoku Region Who Opened Up Modern Japan.” Miyagi University generously sponsored this symposium and has been very supportive of our research efforts.

• Ken’ichi Goto (Emeritus, Waseda University)

An Overview of the Southward ‘Foreign Relations’ of the Tohoku People Who Opened up Modern Japan [近代日本を拓いた東北人の南方『外交』の概観]

• Aiko Kurasawa (Emeritus, Keio University)

Miura Jo’s Bali Island [「三浦襄のバリ島」]

• Mayumi Yamamoto (Miyagi University)

Imamura Hitoshi’s Europe and Military Administration of Java [今村均のヨーロッパとジャワ軍政]

• Isao Yamazaki (Saga University)

Masamitsu Itagaki’s Djakarta Ika Daigaku: Tohoku-Jawa-Kyushu [板垣政参のジャカルタ医科大学―東北・ジャワ・九州]

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