Symposia 2021
Symposia 2021

Symposia 2021

Interdisciplinary Symposia on the World War II and its Long-term Effects in Japan 2021

 

 1 Japan’s experience of the War (19 June 2021) Chair: Eri NAKAMURA
  • Opening Remarks  2:30 pm – 2:50 pm

Eugen KOH,  Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, St Vincentʼs Hospital, Melbourne/ Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

Tadashi TAKESHIMA, Director, Kawasaki City Comprehensive

Rehabilitation Promotion Center

Shigeyuki MORI, Professor of Psychology, Konan University

 

  • Practice Report 2:50 pm – 3:20 pm

Makoto HIGASHINO (General Producer, 2nd Production Unit, NHK Production Division)

“Working on Documentary Films about WW2 and Japan”

 

(Break time 3:20 pm – 3:30 pm)

 

  • Research Presentation 3:30 pm – 5:40 pm

 

Toshiya IKO (Professor of History, Tsuru University)

“How did the War Escalate and What Happened?”

 

Kei SASAKI (Associate Professor of History, Ibaraki University)

“Labor Mobilization in the Japanese Empire during the Asian-Pacific War”

 

(Break time 4:30 pm – 4:40 pm)

 

Yutaka HONJO  (Part-time Lecturer, Ritsumeikan University&Kyoto Tachibana University)

“War Orphans Suffered the Most from ‘Relatives’”

 

Discussant: Naoko MIYAJI

(Professor of Medical Anthropology, Hitotsubashi University)

 

(Break Time 5:30 pm – 5:40 pm)

 

  • Discussion 5:40 pm – 6:40 pm

 

  • Summary and Next Announcement 6:40 pm – 6:50 pm

 

2  Japan’s Response to the War (31 July 2021) Chair: Shigeyuki MORI
  • greeting 3:00 pm – 3:10 pm
  • Practice Report 3:10 pm – 3:40 pm

Hisashi SASAKI(Editorial Board member for Kyodo News)

“Fragment of media war responsibility-The picture book ” Poor Elephant ” read as a descendant of the national news agency”

 

  • Research Presentation 3:40 pm – 4:10 pm

Toshiya ICHINOSE(Professor of History, Saitama University)

“Medical care and support for wounded civilians and soldiers”

 

(Break Time 4:10 pm – 4:20 pm)

 

Kazushi HAMAI(Associate Professor of History, Teikyo University)

“How were the war dead treated in Japan?”

 

Kenta AWAZU(Visiting Researcher, Grief Care Center, Sophia University)

“Remembering the war dead in silence: Formation and transformation of mourning in modern Japan”

 

(Break Time 5:20 pm – 5:30 pm)

 

Discussant: Kai OGIMOTO

(Associate Professor of Psychology, Sagami Women’s University)

 

  • Discussion 5:50 pm – 6:50 pm

 

  • Summary and Next Announcement 6:50 pm – 7:00 pm

 

3 Trauma and Positionality: Japan as Victim and Perpetrator of the War(28 August 2021)Chair: Kenta AWAZU

 

  • Practice Report 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Mayumi OKA(The Institute of Statistical Mathematics; Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Health Management, Hitotsubashi University)

“Awareness gained through interviews with war victims”

 

  • Research Presentation 3:30 pm – 5:40 pm

 

Ryoji ARITSUKA(Director, Mental Clinic Nagomi)

“Conflict between Residents and Soldiers on the ”Island of Sacrifice“ and Late-onset PTSD”

 

(Break Time 4:00 pm – 4:10 pm)

 

Eri NAKAMURA(Associate Professor of History at Hiroshima University)

“Japanese Soldiers and the “Perpetrator Trauma” Revisited”

 

Masaya NEMOTO(Associate Professor of Sociology at Matsuyama University)

“Suffering, Struggling, and Searching for the Meaning: Rethinking the Standpoints of Atomic Bomb Survivors in Japan”

 

(Break Time 5:10 pm – 5:20 pm)

 

Discussant: Kenji KAWANO(Professor of Psychology at Ritsumeikan University)

 

  • Discussion 5:40 pm – 6:40 pm
  • Summary and Next Announcement 6:40 pm – 6:50 pm

 

4 What are the Long Term Effects of the War? (9 October 2021) Chair: Kenji KAWANO

 

  • Practice Report 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Kuniko MURAMOTO(Professor of Psychology at Ritsumeikan University)

“The Intergenerational Transmission of War Trauma in East Asia and Attempts at Reconciliation”

 

  • Research Presentation 3:30 pm – 5:40 pm

 

Tadashi TAKESHIMA(Institute of Regional Development, Taisho University・Japan Liaison Committee for Mental Health and Welfare)

Sanshiro NAGASHIMA(Institute of Regional Development, Taisho University )

“The Impact of War on Mental Health: Focusing on Suicide”

 

(Break Time 4:00 pm – 4:10 pm)

 

Shinzo ARARAGI(Professor of Sociology at Yamato University)

“Somatization of Soldiers’ Experience in the Army”

 

Shigeyuki MORI(Professor of Psychology, Konan University)

“Why Japanese cannot Talk Openly and Process their Experience of the War?”

 

(Break Time 5:10 pm – 5:20 pm)

 

Discussant: Tsuyoshi KITAMURA

(Associate Professor of Anthropology at Osaka University)

 

  • Discussion 5:40 pm – 6:40 pm
  • Summary and Next Announcement 6:40 pm – 6:50 pm

 

5 Understanding the Whole Picture(27 November 2021) Chair: Tadashi TAKESHIMA

 

  • Summary of Each Symposium

3:00 pm – 3:20 pm   Summary of the First Symposium

Eri NAKAMURA(Associate Professor of History at Hiroshima University)

3:20 pm – 3:40 pm   Summary of the Second Symposium

Shigeyuki MORI(Professor of Psychology, Konan University)

3:40 pm – 4:00 pm

Kenta AWAZU(Visiting Researcher, Grief Care Center, Sophia University)

4:00 pm – 4:20 pm

Kenji KAWANO(Professor of Psychology at Ritsumeikan University)

 

(Break Time 4:20 pm – 4:30 pm)

 

  • Keynote Speech 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Eugen KOH (Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, St Vincentʼs Hospital, Melbourne/ Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne)

“Trauma: Transgenerational, Collective and Cultural Trauma”

 

(Break Time 5:30 pm – 5:40 pm)

 

  • Discussion 5:40 pm- 6:40 pm