Katsuya Hirano
Biographic Data
| ID | 247882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katsuya Hirano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katsuya |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirano |
| SIGNATURE | HIRANO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1358-7018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Editor’s Introduction
Beyond the Untranslatable
Building Solidarity in Struggle
Eiichiro Azuma. In Search of Our Frontier
Eiichiro Azuma is a renowned pioneer in the transpacific study of empire. His new book, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese American and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire, is an outstanding contribution to the history of Japanese migration and colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region. It seeks to explore how the transmission of settler-colonial ideologies and practices shaped imperial Japan’s “frontiers” from th…
Vanishing Natives and Taiwan’s Settler-Colonial Unconscious
Take Science Seriously and Value Ethics Greatly
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Regulating Excess
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Hokkaidō 150
This roundtable presents the proceedings of the “Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond” workshop held at the University of British Columbia in March 2019. The sesquicentennial of Japanese settler colonization of the northern island of Hokkaidō or Ainu Mosir received only scant attention either in Japan or around the world. The goal of this roundtable is to reinsert settler colonialism into modern Japanese hi…
Vanishing natives and Taiwan’s settler-colonial unconsciousness
This article approaches Taiwan history through the optic of settler-colonial studies, a comparative scholarly field that has consolidated in recent years [see Wolfe, Patrick. (1999). Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology. London: Cassell; Elkins, Caroline, and Pedersen Susan (eds.). (2005). Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies. London: Routledge; Pateman, Carole. (2007). “The Settler Con…
Save the Town
The town of Namie is the largest in both area and population among eight towns and villages within Futaba Country in Fukushima Prefecture. At the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 that precipitated the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster, the town's population was 18,464. Although Namie is located just 11.2 km from the nuclear power plants, it took four days from the explosion of the power plants before Tokyo issued an evacuati…
Reconstruction Disaster
Suzuki Yūichi (56) was born to a farming family in Namie, Fukushima in 1960. Namie was one of the areas most devastated by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, as well as the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. Besides 565 deaths from the earthquake/tsunami, because the town was located within the 20 kilometer exclusion zone around the damaged nuclear power plant, the entire town was evacuated on March 12. The government of Namie …
“We need to recognize this hopeless sight…. To recognize that this horrible crime is what our country is doing to us”
Opinion and Comment
Opinion and Comment Katsuya Hirano and Kiri Paramore Reply to Review by Kiri Paramore In his review of The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, published in the winter 2015 issue, Kiri Paramore seriously misrepresents the book’s argument. Contrary to what he suggests, I make it clear that my goal in using overdetermination is to go beyond the simplistic and reductive dichotomy of oppression/suppression and subversion as a way of understanding politi…
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is a Serious Crime
Koide Hiroaki (66) has emerged as an influential voice and a central figure in the anti-nuclear movement since the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi of March 11, 2011. He spent his entire career as a nuclear engineer working towards the abolition of nuclear power plants. His powerful critique of the "nuclear village" and active involvement in anti-nuclear movements "earned him an honorable form of purgatory as a permanent assistant professor …
The Politics of Colonial Translation
Japanese imperial authorities sought to justify their imperial project in Hokkaido by racializing the Ainu, whom they displaced in 1869. At the time, the Ainu, with their Caucasian features and beards, were considered racially and culturally distinct from the Japanese (wajin), explaining why some western anthropologists marveled at the feat of a yellow race colonizing a white race. Therefore, the Japanese racialization of the Ainu as a culturally…
Thanatopolitics in the Making of Japan’s Hokkaido
This article provides an overview of late nineteenth-century Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido, a land long inhabited by indigenous people, the Ainu, with a particular theoretical question in mind: What was the precise relationship between the settler colonization of Hokkaido and the Japanese government’s drive for primitive accumulation of capital? This question deepens our understanding of the intrinsic relation between the formation of …
Michael Wert. Meiji Restoration Losers
Michael Wert’s Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan traces the process of memory construction and its relationship to changing historical realities from the Meiji period (1868–1912) to contemporary Japan. It focuses on a particular late-Tokugawa samurai, Oguri Tadamasa (1827–1868), who served the Tokugawa shogunate as a chief treasurer and a delegate to the United States after Japan signed the “unequal treaties…
A Reflection on Uemura Takashi's Talk at Ucla
The UCLA event featuring Uemura Takashi was held on May 8th. Over 120 people attended. It was filled with tension, due largely to the fact that Los Angeles has become the primary site for Japanese right-wing activism on the west coast, especially since July 2013, when a memorial to the "Comfort Women" was erected in Glendale Park. Shin-issei (new immigrants arriving from Japan over the past quarter-century) have been organizing meetings and study…
Fukushima and the Crisis of Democracy
Murakami Tatsuya is the former mayor of Tōkaimura or Tōkai village located approximately 75 miles north of Tokyo and 111 miles south of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.Tōkaimura is considered the birthplace of nuclear power in Japan since the Japanese government built the first reactor for commercial use there in 1965 in collaboration with British nuclear scientists. As Mr. Murakami reveals below, the Japanese government at the time informed the resi…
Tosaka Jun
Tosaka Jun (1900–1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique and important critics of capitalism, the emperor system, imperialism, and everyday life in wartime Japan. This collection of translations contains some of Tosaka's most important essays and original articles on Tosaka
The Politics of Dialogic Imagination
Ainu Spirits Singing
Politics and Poetics of the Body in Early Modern Japan
This essay examines the political implications of Edo (present-day Tokyo) popular culture in early modern Japan by focusing on the interface between distinct forms of literary and visual representation and the configuration of social order (the status hierarchy and the division of labor), as well as moral and ideological discourses that were conducive to the reproduction of the order. Central to the forms of representation in Edo popular culture …
The Politics of Colonial Translation
The History of Hokkaido, compiled and published by the Hokkaido regional authority in 1918, explains why the Hokkaido frontier was "opened" (kaitaku) by the Japanese (wajin) rather than by the Ainu: With respect to their old customs, the great majority of the Ainu have not yet managed to escape a savage and uncivilized stage... From the very outset, the task of opening the frontier can only be accomplished by an ethnos that has reached a certain …
Thanatopolitics in the Making of Japan’s Hokkaido
This article provides an overview of late nineteenth-century Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido, a land long inhabited by indigenous people, the Ainu, with a particular theoretical question in mind: What was the precise relationship between the settler colonization of Hokkaido and the Japanese government’s drive for primitive accumulation of capital? This question deepens our understanding of the intrinsic relation between the formation of …
The Politics of Colonial Translation
The History of Hokkaido, compiled and published by the Hokkaido regional authority in 1918, explains why the Hokkaido frontier was "opened" (kaitaku) by the Japanese (wajin) rather than by the Ainu: With respect to their old customs, the great majority of the Ainu have not yet managed to escape a savage and uncivilized stage... From the very outset, the task of opening the frontier can only be accomplished by an ethnos that has reached a certain …
Politics and Poetics of the Body in Early Modern Japan
This essay examines the political implications of Edo (present-day Tokyo) popular culture in early modern Japan by focusing on the interface between distinct forms of literary and visual representation and the configuration of social order (the status hierarchy and the division of labor), as well as moral and ideological discourses that were conducive to the reproduction of the order. Central to the forms of representation in Edo popular culture …
The Politics of Dialogic Imagination
Ainu Spirits Singing
Tosaka Jun
Tosaka Jun (1900–1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique and important critics of capitalism, the emperor system, imperialism, and everyday life in wartime Japan. This collection of translations contains some of Tosaka's most important essays and original articles on Tosaka
Thanatopolitics in the Making of Japan’s Hokkaido
This article provides an overview of late nineteenth-century Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido, a land long inhabited by indigenous people, the Ainu, with a particular theoretical question in mind: What was the precise relationship between the settler colonization of Hokkaido and the Japanese government’s drive for primitive accumulation of capital? This question deepens our understanding of the intrinsic relation between the formation of …
Michael Wert. Meiji Restoration Losers
Michael Wert’s Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan traces the process of memory construction and its relationship to changing historical realities from the Meiji period (1868–1912) to contemporary Japan. It focuses on a particular late-Tokugawa samurai, Oguri Tadamasa (1827–1868), who served the Tokugawa shogunate as a chief treasurer and a delegate to the United States after Japan signed the “unequal treaties…
A Reflection on Uemura Takashi's Talk at Ucla
The UCLA event featuring Uemura Takashi was held on May 8th. Over 120 people attended. It was filled with tension, due largely to the fact that Los Angeles has become the primary site for Japanese right-wing activism on the west coast, especially since July 2013, when a memorial to the "Comfort Women" was erected in Glendale Park. Shin-issei (new immigrants arriving from Japan over the past quarter-century) have been organizing meetings and study…
Fukushima and the Crisis of Democracy
Murakami Tatsuya is the former mayor of Tōkaimura or Tōkai village located approximately 75 miles north of Tokyo and 111 miles south of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.Tōkaimura is considered the birthplace of nuclear power in Japan since the Japanese government built the first reactor for commercial use there in 1965 in collaboration with British nuclear scientists. As Mr. Murakami reveals below, the Japanese government at the time informed the resi…
“We need to recognize this hopeless sight…. To recognize that this horrible crime is what our country is doing to us”
Opinion and Comment
Opinion and Comment Katsuya Hirano and Kiri Paramore Reply to Review by Kiri Paramore In his review of The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, published in the winter 2015 issue, Kiri Paramore seriously misrepresents the book’s argument. Contrary to what he suggests, I make it clear that my goal in using overdetermination is to go beyond the simplistic and reductive dichotomy of oppression/suppression and subversion as a way of understanding politi…
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is a Serious Crime
Koide Hiroaki (66) has emerged as an influential voice and a central figure in the anti-nuclear movement since the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi of March 11, 2011. He spent his entire career as a nuclear engineer working towards the abolition of nuclear power plants. His powerful critique of the "nuclear village" and active involvement in anti-nuclear movements "earned him an honorable form of purgatory as a permanent assistant professor …
The Politics of Colonial Translation
Japanese imperial authorities sought to justify their imperial project in Hokkaido by racializing the Ainu, whom they displaced in 1869. At the time, the Ainu, with their Caucasian features and beards, were considered racially and culturally distinct from the Japanese (wajin), explaining why some western anthropologists marveled at the feat of a yellow race colonizing a white race. Therefore, the Japanese racialization of the Ainu as a culturally…
Reconstruction Disaster
Suzuki Yūichi (56) was born to a farming family in Namie, Fukushima in 1960. Namie was one of the areas most devastated by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, as well as the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. Besides 565 deaths from the earthquake/tsunami, because the town was located within the 20 kilometer exclusion zone around the damaged nuclear power plant, the entire town was evacuated on March 12. The government of Namie …
Vanishing natives and Taiwan’s settler-colonial unconsciousness
This article approaches Taiwan history through the optic of settler-colonial studies, a comparative scholarly field that has consolidated in recent years [see Wolfe, Patrick. (1999). Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology. London: Cassell; Elkins, Caroline, and Pedersen Susan (eds.). (2005). Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies. London: Routledge; Pateman, Carole. (2007). “The Settler Con…
Save the Town
The town of Namie is the largest in both area and population among eight towns and villages within Futaba Country in Fukushima Prefecture. At the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 that precipitated the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster, the town's population was 18,464. Although Namie is located just 11.2 km from the nuclear power plants, it took four days from the explosion of the power plants before Tokyo issued an evacuati…
Regulating Excess
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Hokkaidō 150
This roundtable presents the proceedings of the “Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond” workshop held at the University of British Columbia in March 2019. The sesquicentennial of Japanese settler colonization of the northern island of Hokkaidō or Ainu Mosir received only scant attention either in Japan or around the world. The goal of this roundtable is to reinsert settler colonialism into modern Japanese hi…
Take Science Seriously and Value Ethics Greatly
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Vanishing Natives and Taiwan’s Settler-Colonial Unconscious
Eiichiro Azuma. In Search of Our Frontier
Eiichiro Azuma is a renowned pioneer in the transpacific study of empire. His new book, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese American and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire, is an outstanding contribution to the history of Japanese migration and colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region. It seeks to explore how the transmission of settler-colonial ideologies and practices shaped imperial Japan’s “frontiers” from th…
Editor’s Introduction
Beyond the Untranslatable
Building Solidarity in Struggle
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · History (12 works) · Japanese History and Culture (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (5 works)