Jonathan Bull
Biographic Data
| ID | 262336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Bull |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bull |
| SIGNATURE | BULL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hokkaido University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9992-3769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
BCOF at eighty
The British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) component of the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) has often been overlooked by researchers because of its minimal role in policy-making. Taking the opportunity of the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the first BCOF personnel in Japan, this special issue introduces new perspectives about the organisation based on a range of hitherto unused or under-utilised sources. The introduction begins b…
Writing BCOF as diary, re-writing the occupation as memoir
National Belonging and the Production of Neglect in the Japanese Repatriate Figure, 1945–1950
This article analyses the discourse of national belonging produced by the Japanese government. After Japanese empire collapsed in August 1945, hikiagesha (‘repatriate’) was the term officials used to categorise approximately 3.2 million Japanese civilians in the colonies when Japan surrendered. Previous research suggests a repatriate figure emerged in postwar Japan so that non-repatriate Japanese could offload anxieties about imperial failure. Co…
End of Empire Migration as Evacuation and Individual Flight
Japanese end of empire migration led to the emergence of a repatriate figure (hikiagesha) in post-war Japan. In its earliest incarnation, the repatriated figure appeared as a female fleeing from violence in Manchuria. This article examines how former colonial residents who came from a different part of the empire (Karafuto, present-day southern Sakhalin) and who were not part of the official repatriation adapted to the Manchurian repatriate figur…
Investigating the Ukishima-maru Incident in Occupied Japan
This article reproduces documents related to an aborted SCAP war crime investigation into the Ukishima-maru incident conducted during the Allied occupation of Japan. The incident involved the sinking of a repatriation vessel (the Ukishima-maru) on 24 August 1945 after it apparently struck a mine in Maizuru Bay, causing hundreds if not thousands of deaths among the Korean forced laborers aboard the vessel. The documents include the testimonies of …
Korean Repatriation and Historical Memory in Postwar Japan
This essay focuses on the historical memory of Korean repatriation in postwar Japan, by examining the commemoration of the Ukishima-maru incident in which thousands of forced laborers died when their ship sank after striking a mine. We show how local memory activists in Maizuru and Shimokita mobilised to present an alternative narrative to that on display at the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum which overlooks Korean repatriation. It shows ho…
Return on display
In September 2015, the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum (Kyoto Prefecture) reopened to the public after renovation and an extensive rethink of its displays. The following month, after three years of hard work, the museum staff received the news that they had long been hoping to hear. UNESCO had agreed to inscribe a selection of the Museum’s documents in the Memory of the World (MoW) International Register, alongside other inscriptions such as…
Karafuto Repatriates and the Work of the Hakodate Regional Repatriation Centre, 1945–50
This article demonstrates how discourse about those repatriated from Japan’s former colonial empire was constructed in early postwar Japan. US Occupation planning assumed that a repatriate had a ‘home’ to return to from which he or she could make a ‘new’ start. Aware that repatriation was more complex, Japanese officials tried to respond more flexibly but met with little success until an intensifying Cold War rivalry prompted US officials to inte…
Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis of the Efficacy of Open Access Publishing in Political Science
The digital revolution has made it easier for political scientists to share and access high-quality research online. However, many articles are stored in proprietary databases that some institutions cannot afford. High-quality, peer-reviewed, top-tier journal articles that have been made open access (OA) (i.e., freely available online) theoretically should be accessed and cited more easily than articles of similar quality that are available only …
Return on display
In September 2015, the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum (Kyoto Prefecture) reopened to the public after renovation and an extensive rethink of its displays. The following month, after three years of hard work, the museum staff received the news that they had long been hoping to hear. UNESCO had agreed to inscribe a selection of the Museum’s documents in the Memory of the World (MoW) International Register, alongside other inscriptions such as…
Karafuto Repatriates and the Work of the Hakodate Regional Repatriation Centre, 1945–50
This article demonstrates how discourse about those repatriated from Japan’s former colonial empire was constructed in early postwar Japan. US Occupation planning assumed that a repatriate had a ‘home’ to return to from which he or she could make a ‘new’ start. Aware that repatriation was more complex, Japanese officials tried to respond more flexibly but met with little success until an intensifying Cold War rivalry prompted US officials to inte…
Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis of the Efficacy of Open Access Publishing in Political Science
The digital revolution has made it easier for political scientists to share and access high-quality research online. However, many articles are stored in proprietary databases that some institutions cannot afford. High-quality, peer-reviewed, top-tier journal articles that have been made open access (OA) (i.e., freely available online) theoretically should be accessed and cited more easily than articles of similar quality that are available only …
Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis of the Efficacy of Open Access Publishing in Political Science
The digital revolution has made it easier for political scientists to share and access high-quality research online. However, many articles are stored in proprietary databases that some institutions cannot afford. High-quality, peer-reviewed, top-tier journal articles that have been made open access (OA) (i.e., freely available online) theoretically should be accessed and cited more easily than articles of similar quality that are available only …
Karafuto Repatriates and the Work of the Hakodate Regional Repatriation Centre, 1945–50
This article demonstrates how discourse about those repatriated from Japan’s former colonial empire was constructed in early postwar Japan. US Occupation planning assumed that a repatriate had a ‘home’ to return to from which he or she could make a ‘new’ start. Aware that repatriation was more complex, Japanese officials tried to respond more flexibly but met with little success until an intensifying Cold War rivalry prompted US officials to inte…
Return on display
In September 2015, the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum (Kyoto Prefecture) reopened to the public after renovation and an extensive rethink of its displays. The following month, after three years of hard work, the museum staff received the news that they had long been hoping to hear. UNESCO had agreed to inscribe a selection of the Museum’s documents in the Memory of the World (MoW) International Register, alongside other inscriptions such as…
Korean Repatriation and Historical Memory in Postwar Japan
This essay focuses on the historical memory of Korean repatriation in postwar Japan, by examining the commemoration of the Ukishima-maru incident in which thousands of forced laborers died when their ship sank after striking a mine. We show how local memory activists in Maizuru and Shimokita mobilised to present an alternative narrative to that on display at the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum which overlooks Korean repatriation. It shows ho…
Investigating the Ukishima-maru Incident in Occupied Japan
This article reproduces documents related to an aborted SCAP war crime investigation into the Ukishima-maru incident conducted during the Allied occupation of Japan. The incident involved the sinking of a repatriation vessel (the Ukishima-maru) on 24 August 1945 after it apparently struck a mine in Maizuru Bay, causing hundreds if not thousands of deaths among the Korean forced laborers aboard the vessel. The documents include the testimonies of …
National Belonging and the Production of Neglect in the Japanese Repatriate Figure, 1945–1950
This article analyses the discourse of national belonging produced by the Japanese government. After Japanese empire collapsed in August 1945, hikiagesha (‘repatriate’) was the term officials used to categorise approximately 3.2 million Japanese civilians in the colonies when Japan surrendered. Previous research suggests a repatriate figure emerged in postwar Japan so that non-repatriate Japanese could offload anxieties about imperial failure. Co…
End of Empire Migration as Evacuation and Individual Flight
Japanese end of empire migration led to the emergence of a repatriate figure (hikiagesha) in post-war Japan. In its earliest incarnation, the repatriated figure appeared as a female fleeing from violence in Manchuria. This article examines how former colonial residents who came from a different part of the empire (Karafuto, present-day southern Sakhalin) and who were not part of the official repatriation adapted to the Manchurian repatriate figur…
BCOF at eighty
The British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) component of the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) has often been overlooked by researchers because of its minimal role in policy-making. Taking the opportunity of the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the first BCOF personnel in Japan, this special issue introduces new perspectives about the organisation based on a range of hitherto unused or under-utilised sources. The introduction begins b…
Writing BCOF as diary, re-writing the occupation as memoir
History (6 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Repatriation (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)