Alexis Dudden
Biographic Data
| ID | 247913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Dudden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | Dudden |
| SIGNATURE | DUDDEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Court of Appeal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Okinawa: Territory as Monument
Our contribution to the AHR's Monuments series consists of three interwoven sections spotlighting Japan's southwestern Okinawa Island chain. We premise the islands themselves as monument to the present as well as their place in contemporary Japanese history. Annexed to the nascent Japanese empire in 1879, fast-forward to 1945, and Okinawa would be sacrificed by Japan's wartime leaders in a desperate and violent effort to stave off America's invas…
The Abuse of History: A Brief Response to J. Mark Ramseyer’s ’Contracting for Sex
For those who read Professor Ramseyer’s article at face value, unseen are assertions that advocate a current Japanese political ideology. This worldview is racially essentialist, revanchist, and history-denying, resonant with similar movements around the world such as Trumpism, LePenism, Modi-ism, and so on. In Japan, among other things the impulse seeks to challenge universalisms that have grounded Japan’s post-World War II legal, economic, and …
An Opportunity for Japan to Change People's Perception
The Japanese government's manipulation of athleticism and consumerism to make Fukushima's radiation problems appear irrelevant takes the Olympics into dangerous new levels of state coercion. This essay urges making radionuclides visible-even metaphorically humanizing them-to grasp the ongoing threat to the people, land, and water that inhabit the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis
Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power
Overcoming the San Francisco System: One Japanese Person's View
On November 8, 2019 in Seoul, Wada Haruki delivered this urgent call to peace. It is in many respects a summation of his life's thinking, and APJ presents it as such.As Northeast Asia confronts the stark choice between constructive peace and its cataclysmic opposite, nuclear war, Wada forcefully demands peace, well aware that his plan -like others in his career-is a "sheer product of imagination." That said, his imagined ideas, springing from a l…
Coda: A Knowledgeable Empire
Nayoung Aimee Kwon. Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
In a June 2016 interview published in The Japan Times, one of Japan’s leading contemporary novelists, Furukawa Hideo, observed, “Literature is part of a country’s history.” He continued, “history has been written so that those in positions of power can tell their version of how the country came into being. But there are many others who have a voice besides those in power. I believe it’s essential to include literature when writing the history of …
Are You Listening to the Voices of the Victims? My Critique of Park Yuha's Comfort Women of the Empire 被害者の声に耳を傾 けているか?朴裕河『帝国の慰安婦』批判
IntroductionRecently, the influential American political pundit, Bill O'Reilly, demonstrated that no nationality or ethnicity holds a monopoly on retrograde views of slavery, on what it means as a human being not to have possession of one's own life. In response to first lady Michelle Obama's evocative observation that her African-American daughters were growing up in a house built by slaves - a house, moreover, they loved - O'Reilly tried to neg…
A Push to End Pacifism Tests Japanese Democracy
[A]n overwhelming majority of Japanese wants to ‘protect' the constitution—using the same word, mamore, that Abe and his supporters use to justify their desire for Japanese troops to fight
Todd A. Henry. Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
Todd A. Henry's Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 analyzes ways in which the architects of the Japanese empire worked to reorder life in Korea's capital as it was lived under their rule. He frames his study chronologically, dividing it into three parts: 1910–1925, 1925–1937, and 1937–1945. Henry thematically examines power relations between colonizer and colonized through consideration…
"Contradictory Understandings of "Abduction: Reflections on two Controversies
The following passages are excerpted from Prof. Uesugi Satoshi's important consideration of inherent paradoxes in Japanese society today involving, on the one hand, an intense determination to resolve North Korea's "abduction" of Japanese nationals during the late 1970s and 80s, and on the other hand, an equally apparent determination to downplay the "abduction" elements of Japan's state sponsored system of wartime sexual slavery, commonly known …
Nominating Article 9 for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize
Last April, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee selected for contention Japanese citizens working to conserve Article 9, Japan's longstanding constitutional prohibition against waging war.Although trite, at certain moments original definitions are helpful. In his final will, dated November 27, 1895, the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel stipulated that the bulk of his wealth should be used for five prizes - and, without explanation, one for "peace." Award…
Memories and Aporias in the Japan-Korea Relationship
2010 is the centennial year of Japan's takeover of Korea. The history of this event is of enormous significance to the 20th century, and not simply because it garnered Japan a foothold on mainland Asia. Although Koreans see it very differently, for Japan, the 1910 annexation of Korea established Japan's entry as a power on the world stage
The Ongoing Disaster
On March 15, 2011, late at night at the Osaka train station, I met the first refugees from the earthquake that I would come to know. The family of four did not look like what I thought that people who were fleeing the horrendous images on television would. The mother, father, and two young daughters were neatly dressed, and their yellow lab was obediently packed into a crate that stood in the middle of their matching suitcases. Each wore a crisp,…
The Nomination of Article 9 of Japan's Constitution for a Nobel Peace Prize
On April 9, 2014 the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the "Japanese people who conserve Article 9" had succeeded in registering themselves as contenders for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. As of this typing, the group remains a loosely organized, broad-based cross section of Japanese society committed to saving the Japanese constitution's famous clause outlawing war
Bullying and History Don't Mix
As someone who cares deeply about many Japanese people and learns from them, I am most concerned by Japanese voters' decision to return Prime Minister Abe Shinzo to office because of his lengthy record of denigrating the histories of those who suffered under Japan's attempts to conquer and control much of Asia during the first half of the twentieth century. Abe has an equally vibrant record of denigrating those who give voice to these histories t…
Korean Americans Enter the Historical Memory Wars on Behalf of the Comfort Women
Immigrant groups in the United States routinely build monuments and memorials to commemorate historical traumas in their homelands. Plaques and statues that recall the Nazi destruction of Jewish communities throughout Europe in the middle of the 20th century together with commemorative stones dedicated to Ireland's 1972 Bloody Sunday are as American as California rolls (to name but two examples). Collectively, these monuments mark a particular gr…
Apology Laid Bare: Colonialism, War and Japanese Historical Memory
With anniversary commemorations for March 11, 2011's terrible tragedies overshadowing all else in Japan this spring - including momentous decisions about U.S.-Japan relations pivoting on a new base in Okinawa - it is notable that historical memory controversies have reemerged to sour Japanese relations with both China and Korea. Although Japan's immediate challenges would seem to make good neighborly ties more important than ever before, some Jap…
Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914–1938
Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States
Whether it's the Vatican addressing its role in the Second World War or the United States atoning for its treatment of native Hawai'ian islanders, apologizing for history has become a standard feature of the international political scene. As Alexis Dudden makes clear, interrogating this process is crucial to understanding the value of the political apology to the state. When governments apologize for past crimes, they take away the substance of a…
Dangerous Islands: Japan, Korea, and the United States
The United States government has landed itself in the middle of a major territorial dispute between Japan and Korea.On July 25, with astonishing lack of knowledge, an obscure branch of the American government called the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) reversed fifty years of officially orchestrated avoidance concerning an ongoing battle between Japan and Korea. It decided that the United States would henceforth consider some tiny islands in …
Abe's Violent Denial: Japan's Prime Minister and the 'Comfort Women
On March 1, 2007, Japan's Prime Minister Abe Shinzo denied the comfort women. Technically, Abe denied Japanese governmental responsibility for the forced coercion of women and girls into the system of sexual slavery that involved an estimated 80,000 to 200,000 victims from throughout Asia, particularly Korea and China. Looked at in starkest relief, the democratically elected leader of the world's second richest nation - one that currently aspires…
Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective (review)
Reviewed by: Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective Alexis Dudden (bio) Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective. By Conrad Totman. Brill, Leiden, 2004. xxi, 226 pages. €63.00. Conrad Totman's recent book, Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective, examines Korean and Japanese history leading up to 1800 in the context of the countries' similar natural surroundings. Building on his demonstr…
Japanese Colonial control in International terms
Promoters of Meiji Japan's imperialist expansion vied with European and American competitors for control of Korea perhaps more than in any other place in Japan's early empire. Thus, although Korea was not officially colonized until 1910, Meiji officials recognized the need for Japan's new policies toward Korea to make international sense more acutely than in the country's other colonial schemes. Within Japan's expanding empire, therefore, the ann…
The End of Apology
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
The Ongoing Disaster
On March 15, 2011, late at night at the Osaka train station, I met the first refugees from the earthquake that I would come to know. The family of four did not look like what I thought that people who were fleeing the horrendous images on television would. The mother, father, and two young daughters were neatly dressed, and their yellow lab was obediently packed into a crate that stood in the middle of their matching suitcases. Each wore a crisp,…
Japanese Colonial control in International terms
Promoters of Meiji Japan's imperialist expansion vied with European and American competitors for control of Korea perhaps more than in any other place in Japan's early empire. Thus, although Korea was not officially colonized until 1910, Meiji officials recognized the need for Japan's new policies toward Korea to make international sense more acutely than in the country's other colonial schemes. Within Japan's expanding empire, therefore, the ann…
Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s)
The Abuse of History: A Brief Response to J. Mark Ramseyer’s ’Contracting for Sex
For those who read Professor Ramseyer’s article at face value, unseen are assertions that advocate a current Japanese political ideology. This worldview is racially essentialist, revanchist, and history-denying, resonant with similar movements around the world such as Trumpism, LePenism, Modi-ism, and so on. In Japan, among other things the impulse seeks to challenge universalisms that have grounded Japan’s post-World War II legal, economic, and …
The Nomination of Article 9 of Japan's Constitution for a Nobel Peace Prize
On April 9, 2014 the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the "Japanese people who conserve Article 9" had succeeded in registering themselves as contenders for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. As of this typing, the group remains a loosely organized, broad-based cross section of Japanese society committed to saving the Japanese constitution's famous clause outlawing war
"We Came to Tell the Truth": Reflections On The Tokyo Women's Tribunal
(2001). 'We Came to Tell the Truth': Reflections On The Tokyo Women's Tribunal. Critical Asian Studies: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 591-602
Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s)
Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power
Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective (review)
Reviewed by: Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective Alexis Dudden (bio) Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective. By Conrad Totman. Brill, Leiden, 2004. xxi, 226 pages. €63.00. Conrad Totman's recent book, Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective, examines Korean and Japanese history leading up to 1800 in the context of the countries' similar natural surroundings. Building on his demonstr…
Japanese Colonial control in International terms
Promoters of Meiji Japan's imperialist expansion vied with European and American competitors for control of Korea perhaps more than in any other place in Japan's early empire. Thus, although Korea was not officially colonized until 1910, Meiji officials recognized the need for Japan's new policies toward Korea to make international sense more acutely than in the country's other colonial schemes. Within Japan's expanding empire, therefore, the ann…
The End of Apology
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
Abe's Violent Denial: Japan's Prime Minister and the 'Comfort Women
On March 1, 2007, Japan's Prime Minister Abe Shinzo denied the comfort women. Technically, Abe denied Japanese governmental responsibility for the forced coercion of women and girls into the system of sexual slavery that involved an estimated 80,000 to 200,000 victims from throughout Asia, particularly Korea and China. Looked at in starkest relief, the democratically elected leader of the world's second richest nation - one that currently aspires…
Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States
Whether it's the Vatican addressing its role in the Second World War or the United States atoning for its treatment of native Hawai'ian islanders, apologizing for history has become a standard feature of the international political scene. As Alexis Dudden makes clear, interrogating this process is crucial to understanding the value of the political apology to the state. When governments apologize for past crimes, they take away the substance of a…
Dangerous Islands: Japan, Korea, and the United States
The United States government has landed itself in the middle of a major territorial dispute between Japan and Korea.On July 25, with astonishing lack of knowledge, an obscure branch of the American government called the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) reversed fifty years of officially orchestrated avoidance concerning an ongoing battle between Japan and Korea. It decided that the United States would henceforth consider some tiny islands in …
Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914–1938
The Ongoing Disaster
On March 15, 2011, late at night at the Osaka train station, I met the first refugees from the earthquake that I would come to know. The family of four did not look like what I thought that people who were fleeing the horrendous images on television would. The mother, father, and two young daughters were neatly dressed, and their yellow lab was obediently packed into a crate that stood in the middle of their matching suitcases. Each wore a crisp,…
The Nomination of Article 9 of Japan's Constitution for a Nobel Peace Prize
On April 9, 2014 the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the "Japanese people who conserve Article 9" had succeeded in registering themselves as contenders for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. As of this typing, the group remains a loosely organized, broad-based cross section of Japanese society committed to saving the Japanese constitution's famous clause outlawing war
Bullying and History Don't Mix
As someone who cares deeply about many Japanese people and learns from them, I am most concerned by Japanese voters' decision to return Prime Minister Abe Shinzo to office because of his lengthy record of denigrating the histories of those who suffered under Japan's attempts to conquer and control much of Asia during the first half of the twentieth century. Abe has an equally vibrant record of denigrating those who give voice to these histories t…
Korean Americans Enter the Historical Memory Wars on Behalf of the Comfort Women
Immigrant groups in the United States routinely build monuments and memorials to commemorate historical traumas in their homelands. Plaques and statues that recall the Nazi destruction of Jewish communities throughout Europe in the middle of the 20th century together with commemorative stones dedicated to Ireland's 1972 Bloody Sunday are as American as California rolls (to name but two examples). Collectively, these monuments mark a particular gr…
Apology Laid Bare: Colonialism, War and Japanese Historical Memory
With anniversary commemorations for March 11, 2011's terrible tragedies overshadowing all else in Japan this spring - including momentous decisions about U.S.-Japan relations pivoting on a new base in Okinawa - it is notable that historical memory controversies have reemerged to sour Japanese relations with both China and Korea. Although Japan's immediate challenges would seem to make good neighborly ties more important than ever before, some Jap…
Memories and Aporias in the Japan-Korea Relationship
2010 is the centennial year of Japan's takeover of Korea. The history of this event is of enormous significance to the 20th century, and not simply because it garnered Japan a foothold on mainland Asia. Although Koreans see it very differently, for Japan, the 1910 annexation of Korea established Japan's entry as a power on the world stage
A Push to End Pacifism Tests Japanese Democracy
[A]n overwhelming majority of Japanese wants to ‘protect' the constitution—using the same word, mamore, that Abe and his supporters use to justify their desire for Japanese troops to fight
Todd A. Henry. Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
Todd A. Henry's Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 analyzes ways in which the architects of the Japanese empire worked to reorder life in Korea's capital as it was lived under their rule. He frames his study chronologically, dividing it into three parts: 1910–1925, 1925–1937, and 1937–1945. Henry thematically examines power relations between colonizer and colonized through consideration…
"Contradictory Understandings of "Abduction: Reflections on two Controversies
The following passages are excerpted from Prof. Uesugi Satoshi's important consideration of inherent paradoxes in Japanese society today involving, on the one hand, an intense determination to resolve North Korea's "abduction" of Japanese nationals during the late 1970s and 80s, and on the other hand, an equally apparent determination to downplay the "abduction" elements of Japan's state sponsored system of wartime sexual slavery, commonly known …
Nominating Article 9 for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize
Last April, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee selected for contention Japanese citizens working to conserve Article 9, Japan's longstanding constitutional prohibition against waging war.Although trite, at certain moments original definitions are helpful. In his final will, dated November 27, 1895, the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel stipulated that the bulk of his wealth should be used for five prizes - and, without explanation, one for "peace." Award…
Are You Listening to the Voices of the Victims? My Critique of Park Yuha's Comfort Women of the Empire 被害者の声に耳を傾 けているか?朴裕河『帝国の慰安婦』批判
IntroductionRecently, the influential American political pundit, Bill O'Reilly, demonstrated that no nationality or ethnicity holds a monopoly on retrograde views of slavery, on what it means as a human being not to have possession of one's own life. In response to first lady Michelle Obama's evocative observation that her African-American daughters were growing up in a house built by slaves - a house, moreover, they loved - O'Reilly tried to neg…
Coda: A Knowledgeable Empire
Nayoung Aimee Kwon. Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
In a June 2016 interview published in The Japan Times, one of Japan’s leading contemporary novelists, Furukawa Hideo, observed, “Literature is part of a country’s history.” He continued, “history has been written so that those in positions of power can tell their version of how the country came into being. But there are many others who have a voice besides those in power. I believe it’s essential to include literature when writing the history of …
Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power
Overcoming the San Francisco System: One Japanese Person's View
On November 8, 2019 in Seoul, Wada Haruki delivered this urgent call to peace. It is in many respects a summation of his life's thinking, and APJ presents it as such.As Northeast Asia confronts the stark choice between constructive peace and its cataclysmic opposite, nuclear war, Wada forcefully demands peace, well aware that his plan -like others in his career-is a "sheer product of imagination." That said, his imagined ideas, springing from a l…
History (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Empire (5 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (5 works)