Tomoko Akami
Biographic Data
| ID | 290862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomoko Akami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomoko |
| FAMILY NAME | Akami |
| SIGNATURE | AKAMI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1988-1795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
IR, history, and the Japanese empire: A spiral move from the ‘edges’ to the ‘centres’
Published online: 06 February 2025
The Historicity of International Politics: Imperialism and the Presence of the Past
The past is constantly present, not least in the study of imperialism and imperial forms of power in international politics. This volume shows how historical trajectories have shaped international affairs covering a wide range of imperial and (post-) colonial settings in international politics, substantiating the claim that imperial and colonial legacies - and how they have transformed over time - are foundational to the historicity of internatio…
Interview with Professor Shigeru Akita, August 2021
Missed Opportunities to be Global: Conversion and Diversion of the Scientific Field of Knowledge of International Relations of the International Studies Conference and the Institute of Pacific Relatio…
Cet article examine le rôle joué par la Société des nations dans la création d’un savoir « scientifique » sur les relations internationales, à travers le cas de la Conférence permanente des Hautes Études internationales (CPHEI, 1928-1954) qu’elle a initiée. Il étudie les périodes cruciales où les processus mis en œuvre au sein de la CPHEI s’entrecroisent avec l’émergence d’un nouveau champ, les « études aréales ». Il se concentre particulièrement…
Missed Opportunities to be Global: Conversion and Diversion of the Scientific Field of Knowledge of International Relations of the International Studies Conference and the Institute of Pacific Relatio…
Cet article examine le role joue par la Societe des nations dans la creation d’un savoir « scientifique » sur les relations internationales, a travers le cas de la Conference permanente des Hautes Etudes internationales (CPHEI, 1928-1954) qu’elle a initiee. Il etudie les periodes cruciales ou les processus mis en œuvre au sein de la CPHEI s’entrecroisent avec l’emergence d’un nouveau champ, les « etudes areales ». Il se concentre particulierement…
Divide and Then Preside: The Dilemma of the First Asian President of the Permanent Court of International Justice in the Age of Empires: a Review Essay on Yanagihara Masaharu and Shinohara Hatsue Eds,…
Adachi Mineichirō was the first non-European and the first Asian President of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1931–1934). This review article introduces the first substantial study of Adachi, focusing on his path of ‘becoming’ one of a few leading international jurists with non-Euro-American backgrounds in his period. This review essay demonstrates that by examining this Japanese diplomat and jurist, the book, written in Japanese, c…
Britain, China, and Colonial Australia
A book review of Britain, China, and Colonial Australia. \nBy Benjamin Mountford. Oxford: Oxford University \nPress, 2016. Pp. 267, £65.00 cloth
Imperial polities, intercolonialism, and the shaping of global governing norms: Public health expert networks in Asia and the League of Nations Health Organization, 1908–37
This article stresses the role of colonial governments, not only national sovereign states, in Asia (and to a lesser extent, Africa) at the League of Nations in shaping global governing norms. It emphasizes the significance of lateral and horizontal cooperative actions across colonial governments, especially intercolonial networks of public health experts. It argues that the League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO) accepted these intercolonia…
Jessamyn R. Abel, The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933–1964
Jessamyn R. Abel, The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933–1964." Japanese Studies, 36(3), pp. 413–414
A Quest to be Global: The League of Nations Health Organization and Inter-Colonial Regional Governing Agendas of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine 1910–25
The League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO) (1921–46) was intended as a global organisation. This article examines the expansion of its operations into Asia in its initial period. The article draws attention to a regional governance attempt by the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine (FEATM) (1910–38) in 1910–23 and examines the moment when the LNHO co-opted this attempt in its quest to become global, opening a space where the inter-…
Japan's New Empire and the Dōmei News Agency in Occupied Southeast Asia, 1942-45
JAPAN'S WARTIME PROPAGANDA IN A GLOBAL CONTEXTJust before the outbreak of the Second World War, E.H. Carr finished his draft of Twenty Years' Crisis. In it he observed:[W]ithin twenty years of the armistice [of the First World War]... many governments were conducting propaganda with an intensity unsurpassed in the war period; and new official and non-official agencies for the influence of opinion at home and abroad were springing up in every coun…
Yukiko Koshiro. Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945
In Imperial Eclipse, Yukiko Koshiro argues that “[u]nder the US military occupation, the Pacific War narrative eclipsed Japan's Eurasian worldview and produced Japan's postwar amnesia about its colonial empire.” Aiming to “restore the comprehensive landscape of Japan's war,” Koshiro “returns the Soviet Union to the scene and renames the conflict the Eurasian-Pacific War” (p. 1).
The Nation-State/Empire as a Unit of Analysis in the History of International Relations: A Case Study in Northeast Asia, 1868–1933
When Democracy is Not Enough: Japan's information policy and mass politics in diplomatic and economic crisis in the 1930s
Japan's information policy did not change suddenly during the Manchurian Crisis in September 1931-March 1933. Rather there was continuing development of state policy and institutions for news propaganda in response to two ongoing phenomena: growing mass political participation as indicated by universal manhood suffrage, and technological changes in mass media and communication.The Japanese metropolitan government did, however, begin a coordinated…
The Emergence of International Public Opinion and the Origins of Public Diplomacy in Japan in the Inter-War Period
This article argues that what we now call public diplomacy emerged in the mid- to late 1930s in the case of Japan. It questions the notion that public diplomacy is new in contrast to 'traditional' diplomacy. It also questions the conventional understanding of Japan's diplomatic isolationism of the 1930s. The article argues that as a result of greater mass political participation, the idea of 'international public opinion' emerged as a new norm in…
In the Name of the People: Welfare and Societal Security in Modern Japan and Beyond
This article questions the notion of "traditional" security by examining security ideas held by policy elites in the Asia-Pacific, particularly in Japan, from the mid-19th century to 1945. It argues that the idea of securíty of the people was a significant and integral part of the discourse of security during that time. The Japanese case suggests that its implications were not always positive, however. What was problematic was not so much a narro…
Nation, state, empire and war: Problems of liberalism in modern Japanese history and beyond
Liberalism in Japan before 1945 has been understood to be problematic because of its disposition to embrace elitism, nationalism and imperialism. These problems are often argued to have been caused by particular Japanese impediments, such as its history, customs, culture and system, and accordingly it is suggested that a ‘proper’ development of liberalism as seen in the ‘West’ did not occur in Japan. This essay argues that these problems are in f…
Internationalizing the Pacific
The Institute of Pacific Relations was a pioneering intellectual-political organization that shaped public knowledge and both elite and popular discourse throughout the Asia-Pacific region and beyond during the inter-war years. Inspired by Wilsonian internationalism after the 1919 formation of the League of Nations, it grew to become an international and national non-governmental think-tank providing expertise on Asia and the Pacific. This book i…
Between the state and global civil society: Non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925-45
This article stresses the need for a more rigorous scrutiny of the power structure in which an expert network produces its 'expert knowledge'. It defines a pioneering multinational expert network in the Asia-Pacific region in the interwar years as a prototype of an epistemic community, and examines how far it challenged the state-centred and North Atlantic-centred dominant structure of international politics, and became 'global'. In this article …
Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1919-1945
Introduction Part I: New Agendas 1. The Paris Peace Conference and Post-League Internationalism Part II: The Pacific Community 2. The Pacific Community: An American Vision of the Regional Order 3. From Vision to Influence: Founding the Institute of Pacific Relations 4. The Japanese Council of the IPR in the 1920s 5. The Pacific Community and the Experiment of the IPR in 1925-7 Part III: Transition 6. From the Pacific to the Atlantic, 1928-32 Part…
A Quest to be Global: The League of Nations Health Organization and Inter-Colonial Regional Governing Agendas of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine 1910–25
The League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO) (1921–46) was intended as a global organisation. This article examines the expansion of its operations into Asia in its initial period. The article draws attention to a regional governance attempt by the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine (FEATM) (1910–38) in 1910–23 and examines the moment when the LNHO co-opted this attempt in its quest to become global, opening a space where the inter-…
Imperial polities, intercolonialism, and the shaping of global governing norms: Public health expert networks in Asia and the League of Nations Health Organization, 1908–37
This article stresses the role of colonial governments, not only national sovereign states, in Asia (and to a lesser extent, Africa) at the League of Nations in shaping global governing norms. It emphasizes the significance of lateral and horizontal cooperative actions across colonial governments, especially intercolonial networks of public health experts. It argues that the League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO) accepted these intercolonia…
The Emergence of International Public Opinion and the Origins of Public Diplomacy in Japan in the Inter-War Period
This article argues that what we now call public diplomacy emerged in the mid- to late 1930s in the case of Japan. It questions the notion that public diplomacy is new in contrast to 'traditional' diplomacy. It also questions the conventional understanding of Japan's diplomatic isolationism of the 1930s. The article argues that as a result of greater mass political participation, the idea of 'international public opinion' emerged as a new norm in…
IR, history, and the Japanese empire: A spiral move from the ‘edges’ to the ‘centres’
Published online: 06 February 2025
Nation, state, empire and war: Problems of liberalism in modern Japanese history and beyond
Liberalism in Japan before 1945 has been understood to be problematic because of its disposition to embrace elitism, nationalism and imperialism. These problems are often argued to have been caused by particular Japanese impediments, such as its history, customs, culture and system, and accordingly it is suggested that a ‘proper’ development of liberalism as seen in the ‘West’ did not occur in Japan. This essay argues that these problems are in f…
Between the state and global civil society: Non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925-45
This article stresses the need for a more rigorous scrutiny of the power structure in which an expert network produces its 'expert knowledge'. It defines a pioneering multinational expert network in the Asia-Pacific region in the interwar years as a prototype of an epistemic community, and examines how far it challenged the state-centred and North Atlantic-centred dominant structure of international politics, and became 'global'. In this article …
Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1919-1945
Introduction Part I: New Agendas 1. The Paris Peace Conference and Post-League Internationalism Part II: The Pacific Community 2. The Pacific Community: An American Vision of the Regional Order 3. From Vision to Influence: Founding the Institute of Pacific Relations 4. The Japanese Council of the IPR in the 1920s 5. The Pacific Community and the Experiment of the IPR in 1925-7 Part III: Transition 6. From the Pacific to the Atlantic, 1928-32 Part…
Between the state and global civil society: Non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925-45
This article stresses the need for a more rigorous scrutiny of the power structure in which an expert network produces its 'expert knowledge'. It defines a pioneering multinational expert network in the Asia-Pacific region in the interwar years as a prototype of an epistemic community, and examines how far it challenged the state-centred and North Atlantic-centred dominant structure of international politics, and became 'global'. In this article …
Internationalizing the Pacific
The Institute of Pacific Relations was a pioneering intellectual-political organization that shaped public knowledge and both elite and popular discourse throughout the Asia-Pacific region and beyond during the inter-war years. Inspired by Wilsonian internationalism after the 1919 formation of the League of Nations, it grew to become an international and national non-governmental think-tank providing expertise on Asia and the Pacific. This book i…
Nation, state, empire and war: Problems of liberalism in modern Japanese history and beyond
Liberalism in Japan before 1945 has been understood to be problematic because of its disposition to embrace elitism, nationalism and imperialism. These problems are often argued to have been caused by particular Japanese impediments, such as its history, customs, culture and system, and accordingly it is suggested that a ‘proper’ development of liberalism as seen in the ‘West’ did not occur in Japan. This essay argues that these problems are in f…
In the Name of the People: Welfare and Societal Security in Modern Japan and Beyond
This article questions the notion of "traditional" security by examining security ideas held by policy elites in the Asia-Pacific, particularly in Japan, from the mid-19th century to 1945. It argues that the idea of securíty of the people was a significant and integral part of the discourse of security during that time. The Japanese case suggests that its implications were not always positive, however. What was problematic was not so much a narro…
The Emergence of International Public Opinion and the Origins of Public Diplomacy in Japan in the Inter-War Period
This article argues that what we now call public diplomacy emerged in the mid- to late 1930s in the case of Japan. It questions the notion that public diplomacy is new in contrast to 'traditional' diplomacy. It also questions the conventional understanding of Japan's diplomatic isolationism of the 1930s. The article argues that as a result of greater mass political participation, the idea of 'international public opinion' emerged as a new norm in…
The Nation-State/Empire as a Unit of Analysis in the History of International Relations: A Case Study in Northeast Asia, 1868–1933
When Democracy is Not Enough: Japan's information policy and mass politics in diplomatic and economic crisis in the 1930s
Japan's information policy did not change suddenly during the Manchurian Crisis in September 1931-March 1933. Rather there was continuing development of state policy and institutions for news propaganda in response to two ongoing phenomena: growing mass political participation as indicated by universal manhood suffrage, and technological changes in mass media and communication.The Japanese metropolitan government did, however, begin a coordinated…
Yukiko Koshiro. Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945
In Imperial Eclipse, Yukiko Koshiro argues that “[u]nder the US military occupation, the Pacific War narrative eclipsed Japan's Eurasian worldview and produced Japan's postwar amnesia about its colonial empire.” Aiming to “restore the comprehensive landscape of Japan's war,” Koshiro “returns the Soviet Union to the scene and renames the conflict the Eurasian-Pacific War” (p. 1).
A Quest to be Global: The League of Nations Health Organization and Inter-Colonial Regional Governing Agendas of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine 1910–25
The League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO) (1921–46) was intended as a global organisation. This article examines the expansion of its operations into Asia in its initial period. The article draws attention to a regional governance attempt by the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine (FEATM) (1910–38) in 1910–23 and examines the moment when the LNHO co-opted this attempt in its quest to become global, opening a space where the inter-…
Japan's New Empire and the Dōmei News Agency in Occupied Southeast Asia, 1942-45
JAPAN'S WARTIME PROPAGANDA IN A GLOBAL CONTEXTJust before the outbreak of the Second World War, E.H. Carr finished his draft of Twenty Years' Crisis. In it he observed:[W]ithin twenty years of the armistice [of the First World War]... many governments were conducting propaganda with an intensity unsurpassed in the war period; and new official and non-official agencies for the influence of opinion at home and abroad were springing up in every coun…
Jessamyn R. Abel, The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933–1964
Jessamyn R. Abel, The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933–1964." Japanese Studies, 36(3), pp. 413–414
Imperial polities, intercolonialism, and the shaping of global governing norms: Public health expert networks in Asia and the League of Nations Health Organization, 1908–37
This article stresses the role of colonial governments, not only national sovereign states, in Asia (and to a lesser extent, Africa) at the League of Nations in shaping global governing norms. It emphasizes the significance of lateral and horizontal cooperative actions across colonial governments, especially intercolonial networks of public health experts. It argues that the League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO) accepted these intercolonia…
Britain, China, and Colonial Australia
A book review of Britain, China, and Colonial Australia. \nBy Benjamin Mountford. Oxford: Oxford University \nPress, 2016. Pp. 267, £65.00 cloth
Divide and Then Preside: The Dilemma of the First Asian President of the Permanent Court of International Justice in the Age of Empires: a Review Essay on Yanagihara Masaharu and Shinohara Hatsue Eds,…
Adachi Mineichirō was the first non-European and the first Asian President of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1931–1934). This review article introduces the first substantial study of Adachi, focusing on his path of ‘becoming’ one of a few leading international jurists with non-Euro-American backgrounds in his period. This review essay demonstrates that by examining this Japanese diplomat and jurist, the book, written in Japanese, c…
Missed Opportunities to be Global: Conversion and Diversion of the Scientific Field of Knowledge of International Relations of the International Studies Conference and the Institute of Pacific Relatio…
Cet article examine le rôle joué par la Société des nations dans la création d’un savoir « scientifique » sur les relations internationales, à travers le cas de la Conférence permanente des Hautes Études internationales (CPHEI, 1928-1954) qu’elle a initiée. Il étudie les périodes cruciales où les processus mis en œuvre au sein de la CPHEI s’entrecroisent avec l’émergence d’un nouveau champ, les « études aréales ». Il se concentre particulièrement…
Missed Opportunities to be Global: Conversion and Diversion of the Scientific Field of Knowledge of International Relations of the International Studies Conference and the Institute of Pacific Relatio…
Cet article examine le role joue par la Societe des nations dans la creation d’un savoir « scientifique » sur les relations internationales, a travers le cas de la Conference permanente des Hautes Etudes internationales (CPHEI, 1928-1954) qu’elle a initiee. Il etudie les periodes cruciales ou les processus mis en œuvre au sein de la CPHEI s’entrecroisent avec l’emergence d’un nouveau champ, les « etudes areales ». Il se concentre particulierement…
Interview with Professor Shigeru Akita, August 2021
The Historicity of International Politics: Imperialism and the Presence of the Past
The past is constantly present, not least in the study of imperialism and imperial forms of power in international politics. This volume shows how historical trajectories have shaped international affairs covering a wide range of imperial and (post-) colonial settings in international politics, substantiating the claim that imperial and colonial legacies - and how they have transformed over time - are foundational to the historicity of internatio…
IR, history, and the Japanese empire: A spiral move from the ‘edges’ to the ‘centres’
Published online: 06 February 2025
Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · History (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works)