Utsumi Aiko

Biographic Data

ID315622
NAMEUtsumi Aiko
GIVEN NAMESUtsumi
FAMILY NAMEAiko
SIGNATUREAIKO U
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX0

  • Lee Hak Rae, the Korean Connection and "Japanese" War Crimes on the Burma-Thai Railway

    Open AccessAiko Utsumi, Utsumi Aiko et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2007

    Lee Hak Rae was a Korean youth who went to work at age fifteen supervising prisoners of the Japanese mobilized to build the Burma-Thailand Railway. Hintok, where he served, was the most dangerous place along the railway. Prisoners called it "Hellfire Pass." Of approximately 700 Australians, 100 died there, mainly from overwork and diseases such as dysentery and cholera. Lee was indicted by an Australian court in Singapore on September 25, 1946, b…

  • Yasukuni Shrine Imposes Silence on Bereaved Families

    Open AccessUtsumi AikoARTICLEJapan focus2006

    Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on August 15, the most controversial date possible, underscored Yasukuni's central place in discussions of Japanese war memory and historical reconciliation in Northeast Asia. Debate typically involves the 14 Class-A war criminals enshrined and worshipped as deities at Yasukuni, despite the late Showa emperor's recently revealed expressions of displeasure, and growing calls from overseas…

  • Japan's World War II POW Policy

    Open AccessUtsumi AikoARTICLEJapan focus2005

    Part I of a two part series on the treatment of prisoners of war examines Japan's World War II treatment of prisoners and the verdicts of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal punishing prisoner abuse. Utsumi Aiko is Japan's leading specialist on World War II POW issues. See also the two part article by Wall Street Journal correspondent Jess Bravin on the rights, and abuses of those rights, of POWs under the Japanese in World War II and the United States…

  • Looking Back on My Days as Ri Koran (Li Xianglan)

    Open AccessTanaka Hiroshi, Utsumi Aiko et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2004

    Otaka Yoshiko was born Yamaguchi Yoshiko in Manchuria in 1920. After joining the Manchurian Film Association in 1938, she starred in films as a Chinese actress under the name of Li Xianglan (Ri Koran in Japanese). Arrested as a spy by the Chinese Nationalists following Japan's surrender, she was arraigned before a war crimes tribunal and acquitted. Following her release, she was active as an actress and singer in Japan and then in the United Stat…

  • Korean “Imperial Soldiers”

    Open AccessUtsumi AikoCHAPTERPerilous Memories2001

  • Multicultural Japan

    Open AccessHarumi Befu, Kazumichi Katayama et al.BOOKMulticultural Japan1996

    This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, Multicultural Japan ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. A timely and provocative discussion of identity politics regarding the question of 'Japaneseness', the book traces the origins of the Japanese, examining Japan's indi…

  • The fifth JSAA national conference — Some reflections on the fifth JSAA conference — A postgraduate student's impressions of the fifth national conference

    Utsumi Aiko, Richard GlenisterARTICLEJapanese Studies1987

    (1987). The fifth JSAA national conference — Some reflections on the fifth JSAA conference — A postgraduate student's impressions of the fifth national conference. Japanese Studies: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 1-3