2021 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
POW Tourism and Japan-Australian Reconciliation
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20H04434
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
MILNE Daniel 京都大学, 国際高等教育院, 講師 (10766778)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
モートン 常慈 徳島大学, 教養教育院, 准教授 (40469333)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Prisoners of war / Asia Pacific War / Tourism / War memory / Kyoto / Japan |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Using the carry over funds from 2021, we purchased books and conducted domestic research that helped us publish a co-edited special issue of an international online journal, hold two international research workshops, and present research results at domestic conferences.
A product of over two years of group research and workshops, the special issue of Japan Focus ("Re-examining Asia-Pacific War Memories: Grief, Narratives, and Memorials") was published as an open source online journal special in May. In December, we co-ran a workshop titled "Kyoto’s Imperial Modernity", where we presented on POW-related research in Kyoto. In February, we organized and hosted an international conference ("Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War: History, Memory, and Forgetting"). With carryover funds we conducted research and gathered materials in Kyoto, Tokushima, and Tokyo.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The Covid pandemic prevented us from conducting domestic and international research and from holding international conferences. However, due to our rapid progress in 2022, we were able to make up for much of this delay.
In 2022, we conducted much of the overseas research we had planned for the previous two years (to Australia and Thailand). We also published
our first major publication, a journal special issue in three parts: "Re-examining Asia-Pacific War Memories: Grief, Narratives, and Memorials."
Lastly, we organized and hosted two conferences, one of which was in person and the other hybrid, which would have been difficult to conduct in
the last two years. These will provide the basis for two future journal special issues published in 2023 or 2024.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2023, we will continue working towards publication of our research, collect research materials, and present our research internationally.
Building on the two conferences held in 2022, "Kyoto’s Imperial Modernity" and "Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War: History, Memory, and Forgetting", we have started work on two further co-edited specials due to be published in 2023 or 2024. We are now collecting and editing papers while continuing to write our own research.
We plan to host two further workshops to foster this publication. In order to collect further research materials, we will make another overseas research trip (to Hawaii). Lastly, we will present our research at international conferences in Europe and Japan.
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| Remarks |
Online page for two conferences conducted using carry over funding from 2021 and from the 2022 budget.
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