Janice Matsumura
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 372108 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Janice Matsumura |
| NOMBRES | Janice |
| APELLIDO | Matsumura |
| FIRMA | MATSUMURA J |
| AFILIACIONES | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
In Defense of Prewar Japan
While scholarship on the memories of the Asia-Pacific War is extensive, less information is available on the way individuals defined, imagined, or idealized the prewar period. This article examines studies relating war to civilian crime on the main islands, illustrating the role of the prewar period in assessments of wartime and postwar society. Contributing to positive views of prewar Japan detached from the "undesirable past" of the war, the au…
Lee K. Pennington, Casualties of History
Lee K. Pennington, Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War." Japanese Studies, 36(1), pp. 129–130
Combating Indiscipline in the Imperial Japanese Army
Problems of indiscipline are not commonly part of the post-war image of the Imperial Japanese Army, but even before the Asia-Pacific War its officials had reasons to question the obedience of soldiers and called upon psychiatrists to identify the causes of crimes. This article traces the emergence of explanations critical of the army’s prioritization of crimes and, specifically, policies for bolstering morale that constituted or contributed to wa…
Japanese Military Suicides During the Asia-Pacific War
Given the numerous news reports and articles describing unprecedented rates of self-inflicted deaths among U.S. active-duty personnel, with figures by 2012 exceeding those of soldiers killed in combat in Afghanistan, military suicide has become an issue of burning relevance for today's U.S. military Rising rates have also been recorded in other countries, including Japan, where the number of suicides among members of the Self-Defence Forces has r…
Japan’s Holy War
A Woman With Demons
Reviewed by: A Woman With Demons: The Life of Kamiya Mieko (1914-1979) Janice Matsumura Yuzo Ota . A Woman With Demons: The Life of Kamiya Mieko (1914-1979). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. xxiv + 261 pp. $Can. 39.95, $U.S. 34.95, £21.95 (ISBN-10: 0-7735-3011-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-3011-9). The subject of television documentaries and at least four biographies since the 1990s, Kamiya Mieko continues to win admirers in Japan as a h…
The ‘All-Knowing’ Japanese State? New Scholarship on Medicine, Science, Technology, and Industrial Relations
Unfaithful Wives and Dissolute Labourers
State Propaganda and Mental Disorders
This article explores the politics of Japanese wartime medical policy, demonstrating how state propaganda about the people and their armed forces influenced authoritative views on health and what might endanger it. By focusing on the obstacles faced by psychiatrists trying to promote more official concern for mental health issues, it challenges the validity of figures indicating a low incidence of psychological trauma among the country's soldiers…
Mental Health as Public Peace
On June 8, 2001, Takuma Mamoru, a former psychiatric patient, broke into the Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka City and killed eight schoolchildren. This incident, which journalists have described as the Ikeda Massacre, resurrected public concerns about the mentally ill. The Osaka District Court declared that psychiatric evaluations had revealed that Takuma was sane enough to recognise the criminal nature of his actions. Discussion among the publi…
More Than a Momentary Nightmare
Internal Security in Wartime Japan (1937-45) and the Creation of Internal Insecurity
The wartime period in Japan has been called the "Dark Valley." It is an apt description. The wartime was one of the most tragic periods in Japanese history and it remains shrouded in mystery because of the difficulty in conducting research on it. A lot of documents and correspondence which might have revealed much about conditions at the time were destroyed during the course of war. Scholars have nevertheless demonstrated that fears of a growing …
Mental Health as Public Peace
On June 8, 2001, Takuma Mamoru, a former psychiatric patient, broke into the Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka City and killed eight schoolchildren. This incident, which journalists have described as the Ikeda Massacre, resurrected public concerns about the mentally ill. The Osaka District Court declared that psychiatric evaluations had revealed that Takuma was sane enough to recognise the criminal nature of his actions. Discussion among the publi…
Internal Security in Wartime Japan (1937-45) and the Creation of Internal Insecurity
The wartime period in Japan has been called the "Dark Valley." It is an apt description. The wartime was one of the most tragic periods in Japanese history and it remains shrouded in mystery because of the difficulty in conducting research on it. A lot of documents and correspondence which might have revealed much about conditions at the time were destroyed during the course of war. Scholars have nevertheless demonstrated that fears of a growing …
More Than a Momentary Nightmare
State Propaganda and Mental Disorders
This article explores the politics of Japanese wartime medical policy, demonstrating how state propaganda about the people and their armed forces influenced authoritative views on health and what might endanger it. By focusing on the obstacles faced by psychiatrists trying to promote more official concern for mental health issues, it challenges the validity of figures indicating a low incidence of psychological trauma among the country's soldiers…
Mental Health as Public Peace
On June 8, 2001, Takuma Mamoru, a former psychiatric patient, broke into the Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka City and killed eight schoolchildren. This incident, which journalists have described as the Ikeda Massacre, resurrected public concerns about the mentally ill. The Osaka District Court declared that psychiatric evaluations had revealed that Takuma was sane enough to recognise the criminal nature of his actions. Discussion among the publi…
Unfaithful Wives and Dissolute Labourers
A Woman With Demons
Reviewed by: A Woman With Demons: The Life of Kamiya Mieko (1914-1979) Janice Matsumura Yuzo Ota . A Woman With Demons: The Life of Kamiya Mieko (1914-1979). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. xxiv + 261 pp. $Can. 39.95, $U.S. 34.95, £21.95 (ISBN-10: 0-7735-3011-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-3011-9). The subject of television documentaries and at least four biographies since the 1990s, Kamiya Mieko continues to win admirers in Japan as a h…
The ‘All-Knowing’ Japanese State? New Scholarship on Medicine, Science, Technology, and Industrial Relations
Japan’s Holy War
Japanese Military Suicides During the Asia-Pacific War
Given the numerous news reports and articles describing unprecedented rates of self-inflicted deaths among U.S. active-duty personnel, with figures by 2012 exceeding those of soldiers killed in combat in Afghanistan, military suicide has become an issue of burning relevance for today's U.S. military Rising rates have also been recorded in other countries, including Japan, where the number of suicides among members of the Self-Defence Forces has r…
Lee K. Pennington, Casualties of History
Lee K. Pennington, Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War." Japanese Studies, 36(1), pp. 129–130
Combating Indiscipline in the Imperial Japanese Army
Problems of indiscipline are not commonly part of the post-war image of the Imperial Japanese Army, but even before the Asia-Pacific War its officials had reasons to question the obedience of soldiers and called upon psychiatrists to identify the causes of crimes. This article traces the emergence of explanations critical of the army’s prioritization of crimes and, specifically, policies for bolstering morale that constituted or contributed to wa…
In Defense of Prewar Japan
While scholarship on the memories of the Asia-Pacific War is extensive, less information is available on the way individuals defined, imagined, or idealized the prewar period. This article examines studies relating war to civilian crime on the main islands, illustrating the role of the prewar period in assessments of wartime and postwar society. Contributing to positive views of prewar Japan detached from the "undesirable past" of the war, the au…
Law (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Criminology (6 obras) · History (5 obras) · Japanese History and Culture (5 obras) · Psychiatry (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras)