2022 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 |
We published a three-part co-edited special issue of an international online journal, held two international research workshops, conducted fieldwork within and outside Japan, and presented research results at international conferences.
A product of over two years of group research and workshops, the three part 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"). We conducted research in Australia, Thailand, and Japan.
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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
Though the Covid pandemic slowed our progress in the first two years, this year we were able to make up for much of this with very good progress.
In this year, 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 |
This year 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 schedules for two conferences held in the 2022-2023 period: "Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War: History, Memory, and Forgetting" and "Kyoto’s Imperial Modernity".
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