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Dr Tomoko Akami

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Senior Lecturer and Head, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories
Email: Tomoko.Akami@anu.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 6125 8238
Fax: + 61 2 6125 8326
Room: e434 Baldessin Precinct Building
Dr Tomoko Akami
Dr Tomoko Akami

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Qualifications

  • Ph.D. (Australian National University)
  • M.A. (University of Melbourne)
  • M.A. (Hiroshima University, Japan)
  • B.A. (Hiroshima University, Japan)

Research

Working on a project on the role of the Japanese news agency, Domei tsushin, and its successor, Kyodo tsushin, in international politics in the time of war and peace, focusing mainly in the 1930s and 1940s. Particularly interested in how we construct the knowledge of the world, and explore the question of what is the knowledge, which would foster 'peace'. Currently working on the meaning of 'international understanding' through the documents of the UNESCO, as well as on the issue of 'propaganda for war and peace'. Also working on a paper on the limits and potential of liberal ideas and institutions especially for those who have been considered as outsider of the nation-state boundary. Also working on a project of translation of key Japanese figures in modern times, especially on their visions for the world and regional order.

Present Appointments

  • Senior Lecturer, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University

Courses

  • Modern Japanese Society
  • Middle Classes in the Asia-Pacific
  • Understanding Post-War Japan
  • Readings on nationalism
  • Japan and the World: Ideas in international relations (to be taught from 2004)

Supervision

My expertise is history of international relations in the Asia-Pacific region in the inter-war period (1920s-1940s), using Japanese, Australian, American and British source materials (official and private), and mainly focusing on non-state actors and ideas. I have supervised also in the areas of post-Meiji Japanese social, political and intellectual history, and modern Japanese external relations (in a broader sense)

Publications

Books

  • Internationalizing the Pacific: The USA, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace 1919-45 London: Routledge. (2001)
  • Contemporary Japan: Perspectives and Shared Experiences Sydney: the Japan Cultural Centre (1997)

Book Chapters

  • Managing public opinion: the national news agency of Japan, 'Dômei tsûshin', and public diplomacy, 1936—40, in Michio Yamaoka and George M. Oshiro eds, Towards the Construction of a New Discipline (Tokyo: Ronsôsha, 2005)
  • From the centre to a periphery?: Honolulu and the Pacific Community in The Crossroad in the Pacific Sharon Minichielo ed., Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (forthcoming)
  • Frederic Eggleston and Oriental Power, 1925-9 in Relationships: Australia and Japan: 1880s to 1950s Vera Mackie and Paul Johns eds, Melbourne: Department of History Monograph Series, the University of Melbourne. (2001)
  • Setting Agendas for Modern Middle Classes: Christian Institutions and the Colonial Discourse in Japan in the Early Half of the Twentieth Century in Coloniality, Postcoloniality and Modernity in Japan Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute. (2000)
  • The 'New' Discourse of International Politics and A New Generation of Foreign Experts in Australia in 1919-1929 in Nichi Go; no shakai to bunka [Society and Culture in Japan and Australia] Kikkawa Hitoshi ed., Seibundo. (1999)
  • The making of an empire of information: Domei tsushin in Japanese information policy in Southeast Asia, 1935–1945, in Ronald D. Holmes ed., Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Southeast Asia: Progress and Challenges through Half a Century (Quezn City: Philippine Social Science Council, 2007), pp. 98–144.
  • New Liberalism as a Missing Link: Australia and Japan, in Masayo Tada and Leigh Dale eds, On the Western Edge: Comparisons of Japan and Australia (Perth: Curtin University of Technology, 2007), pp. 35–54.
  • The nexus of the nation-state and the empire: Reconsidering the Leagues order and Japan in the inter-war period, in Asahiko Hanzawa ed., Japan and the UN in International Politics: Historical Perspective (Sapporo: Koto hosei kyoiku senta, Hokkaido Daigaku, 2007), pp. 33–84

Journal Articles

  • ‘'In the name of people: welfare and societal security in modern Japan and beyond'’, Asian Perspective, vol. 30, no. 1 (Spring, 2006), pp. 157–190
  • '‘Nation, state, empire and war: problems of liberalism in modern Japanese history and beyond,'’ Japanese Studies, vol. 25, no. 2 (September 2005), pp. 119—140.
  • Between the state and global civil society: Non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925-45 in Global Network vol. 2, no.1 (January 2002), pp. 65-81. (2002)
  • Post-League Wilsonian Internationalism and the Institute of Pacific Relations in Shibusawa kenky no.11 (October, 1998), pp.3-35. (1998)
  • The Rise and Fall of a Pacific Sense: Experiment of the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1925-1933 in Shibusawa kenky no. 7 (October, 1994), pp.2-37. (1994)
  • 1920 nendai niokeru Osutoraria no taiheiyo ishiki to taiheiyo mondai chosakai "[A Pacific Sense and the Institute of Pacific Relations in Australia in the 1920s] in Osutoraria Kenky Vol. 5 (December, 1994), pp.58-65. (1994)
  • Igirisu elito no henyo, 1880-1914 "[The Reformation of the British Elite: The Financiers of the City, 1880-1914] in Seiyo shigaku No. 15 (October, 1988), pp.40-63. (1988)

Conference and Seminar Papers

  • ‘Information for the state and the population: intelligence and propaganda activities of the Information Bureau and Dômei news agency in Japan during the fifteen-year war’, presented at the panel on “Image and information in the Japanese empire” at the 14th biennial conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, at the University of Adelaide, 3-6 July, 2005
  • ‘Managing public opinion: the national news agency of Japan, Dômei tsûshin, and public diplomacy, 1936—40’, presented at the conference on ‘The Construction of a New Discipline, “Asia-Pacific Studies”: A Re-evaluation of the Institute of Pacific Relations’ Progress and Perspectives’, at the Research School of Asia Pacific Studies, the Waseda University, 30–31 January, 2005
  • ‘A national voice and mutual understanding: the national news agency of Japan in public diplomacy and war propaganda, 1927-45’, Paper presented for the conference on ‘War, Lies and Conspiracy’, at the Humanities Research Centre, the Australian National University, 26-7, September, 2004.
  • Problem and potential of liberal internationalism in the twentieth century and beyond presented at a graduate seminar for Asia and Pacific Studies, The Graduate School of Asia and Pacific Studies, Waseda University, 28 July 2002. (2002)
  • Liberalism as a common thread in Japan and Australia presented at 'On the Western Edge?: A Colloquium on comparisons of Australia and Japan', the Australian National University, Canberra, 8-9, September 2001. (2001)
  • Non-official Experts' Network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925-45 presented at the second annual Global Development Network conference, Tokyo, 11-13 December, 2000. (2000)
  • A Useful Culture: Rhetoric of Culture in International Politics and the Institute of Pacific Relations in the Inter-war Period presented at the 13th International Conference of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society, 24-7, November, 1999. (1999)
  • Politics of Respectability: A Crossroad of Domestic and International Politics of a Christian Women's Organization in Japan in 1920-1940 presented to the Conference on Women, Human Rights, Social Justice and Citizenship, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 30 June to 2 July, 1998. (1998)
  • Synthesis and Dilemma of a Political Identity: the 'Pacific' and pro-American foreign experts in Japan in the 1920s presented at the conference on "From Far and near: the Genesis of the Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region", Canberra, 19 May, 1998. (1998)
  • International Justice or Justification of Expansion: Asianism and the World Order in the Inter-war Japan presented at the conference on "East Asian Perspectives in the World Order", State University of New York, Buffaro, 8?9 May, 1998. (1998)
  • When can a globalizing force become a critical force?: Social Prestige, Social Justice, and Chrisitianity in Japan, 1858-1942 presented at the conference of the Japanese Studies of Australia, Melbourne, 7 July, 1997. (1997)
  • Between 'anzen hosho and shakai hosho': A concept of 'security' of Royama Masamichi and the Institute of Pacific Relations in 1930-1960 presented at the conference of International Studies, Toronto, 19 March, 1997. (1997)
  • Asia and a 'Main Stream' Discourse of International Politics: Wilsonian Internationalism and the Institute of Pacific Relations from the pre to post World War II presented at the AAS conference, Honolulu, 11-14, April, 1996. (1996)
  • Nation, State, the Pacific, and the International Community: the Japanese Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations in 1926-1940 Pacific and Asian History, the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 29 November, 1994. (1994)
  • 1920 nendai niokeru Osutoraria no taiheiyo ishiki to taiheiyo mondai chosakai" [A Pacific Sense and the Institute of Pacific Relations in Australia in the 1920s] Osutoraria kenky= gakkai [Annual conference of the Australian Studies Association]: Osutoraria nijuisseiki - Osutoraria wa ajia taiheiyo; kokka ni nareruka? [Australia in the twenty first century - Can Australia become an Asia-Pacific nation?], Keio University, Tokyo, 11-12, June, 1993. (1993)
  • The Rise and Fall of a Pacific Sense: the Experiments of the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1925 -1930 Pacific and Asian History, the Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian national University, 20 July, 1993, Conference on the Institute of Pacific Relations, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, August 9-10, 1993, 34th International Congress of Asia and North African Studies, 22-29 August, 1993. (1993)
  • The Liberal Dilemma: Internationalism and Nationalism in Japan and Australia, 1920-1940 Pacific and Asian History, the Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, 13 October, 1992. (1992)
  • Toshiba Foundation funded project on 'Public diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific' (headed by Dr Horiuchi Yusaku), conference on 'Public Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific', March 2007 at Old Parliament House, Canberra

Grants

  • 2006: The Toshiba Foundation Grant: Collaborative
  • 2002-2005: The Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant
  • 2000: The Australian Research Council Small Grant
  • 1998: New Starter's Grant, the Australian National University
  • 1996: Small Research Grant, the University of Technology, Sydney
  • 1993-1995: Daiwa Bank Grant
  • 1993: Rockefeller Archive Center Grant
  • 1989-1993: Australian Japan Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship

Memberships

  • Japanese Association of International Relations
  • Japanese Studies Association of Australia
  • Association for Asian Studies, the USA
  • Australian Studies Association, Japan
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