Hiromi Mizuno
Biographic Data
| ID | 358826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hiromi Mizuno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hiromi |
| FAMILY NAME | Mizuno |
| SIGNATURE | MIZUNO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twin Cities Orthopedics |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cold War Asia as a Method
This essay discusses Asia-to-Asia technical aid—the subject that Aaron S. Moore explored through Japan's dam constructions and Nippon Kōei—by intersecting its historical trajectory with the evolution of South-South Corporation, which was once a crucially important political tool of the Global South. I take a critical look at the 1970s when Asian nations emerged as newly industrializing countries and left the Global South. Using Cold War Asia as a…
Okinawa Agriculture and the Sterile Insect Technique
Bitter melon is a popular gourd vegetable native to Okinawa in Japan. However, because of the melon fly, a very damaging pest on the quarantine list, bitter melon could not be sold in mainland Japan until the fly was eradicated from Okinawa Prefecture in 1993 by using the nuclear-derived sterile insect technique (SIT). This essay examines the SIT project in Okinawa that began in 1972 when the United States returned Okinawa to Japan. The twenty-ye…
Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian soybean trade: Geopolitics and economic strategies in China’s Northeast, ca. 1870s–1920s
This article examines how soybeans became a global commodity, by focusing on the intermediary role of the Japanese trading company Mitsui Bussan. In the early twentieth century, soybeans were almost exclusively grown in Northeast China, also known as Manchuria. Their global commodification was a result of complex imperial rivalries among China, Japan, and Russia in northeast China as well as the rapid rise of vegetable oil consumption in Europe. …
Mutant rice and agricultural modernization in Asia
By using the genealogy of hybrid rice, Mahsuri, developed in Malaysia by Japanese agronomists in the 1960s, this article tells a story of agricultural modernization in Asia that challenges the US-centered narrative of the Green Revolution. Cross-racial hybrid Mahsuri’s parent is Taichung 65 from colonial Taiwan, and its off-spring is irradiated Mahsuri Mutant. By highlighting the deep connection between colonial development and post-World War II …
In Memoriam: Aaron S. Moore (1972–2019)
forerunner in the history of technology in Asia, friend, colleague, and scholar.His life and career cut short has left an empty space in the heart of a network of scholars who have known and benefited from his quiet curiosity
Eloge: Aaron S. Moore (1972-2019)
Rasa Island: What Industrialization To Remember and Forget
Rasa Island, a small, remote coral atoll of Okinawa, was once a robust company town of Rasa Phosphate Industry Inc. Now abandoned and forgotten, the barren island nonetheless tells a rich story of Japan's industrialization, a counter-narrative to the problematically simplified and celebratory history provided at the Meiji Industrial Revolution Sites recently inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. By using Rasa Island and critical heritage s…
Hoi-eun Kim. Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
Journal Article Hoi-eun Kim. Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan. Get access Hoi-eun Kim. Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan. (German and European Studies.) Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 249. Cloth $55.00, e-book $55.00. Hiromi Mizuno Hiromi Mizuno University of Minnesota [email protected] Search for other wor…
Maki Fukuoka, The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-century Japan
When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime
When Pacifist Japan Fights:Historicizing Desires in Anime Hiromi Mizuno (bio) This essay proposes a critical history of fantasy. By that, I mean locating meanings, ambiguities, and possibilities of desires between the text (the anime) and the context (history). Every fantasy is based on desires, and so is Japanese anime fantasy. Instead of focusing on the anime creator's intention or techniques, I seek to treat the anime as a historical text that…
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When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime
When Pacifist Japan Fights:Historicizing Desires in Anime Hiromi Mizuno (bio) This essay proposes a critical history of fantasy. By that, I mean locating meanings, ambiguities, and possibilities of desires between the text (the anime) and the context (history). Every fantasy is based on desires, and so is Japanese anime fantasy. Instead of focusing on the anime creator's intention or techniques, I seek to treat the anime as a historical text that…
Maki Fukuoka, The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-century Japan
Hoi-eun Kim. Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
Journal Article Hoi-eun Kim. Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan. Get access Hoi-eun Kim. Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan. (German and European Studies.) Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 249. Cloth $55.00, e-book $55.00. Hiromi Mizuno Hiromi Mizuno University of Minnesota [email protected] Search for other wor…
Rasa Island: What Industrialization To Remember and Forget
Rasa Island, a small, remote coral atoll of Okinawa, was once a robust company town of Rasa Phosphate Industry Inc. Now abandoned and forgotten, the barren island nonetheless tells a rich story of Japan's industrialization, a counter-narrative to the problematically simplified and celebratory history provided at the Meiji Industrial Revolution Sites recently inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. By using Rasa Island and critical heritage s…
Mutant rice and agricultural modernization in Asia
By using the genealogy of hybrid rice, Mahsuri, developed in Malaysia by Japanese agronomists in the 1960s, this article tells a story of agricultural modernization in Asia that challenges the US-centered narrative of the Green Revolution. Cross-racial hybrid Mahsuri’s parent is Taichung 65 from colonial Taiwan, and its off-spring is irradiated Mahsuri Mutant. By highlighting the deep connection between colonial development and post-World War II …
In Memoriam: Aaron S. Moore (1972–2019)
forerunner in the history of technology in Asia, friend, colleague, and scholar.His life and career cut short has left an empty space in the heart of a network of scholars who have known and benefited from his quiet curiosity
Eloge: Aaron S. Moore (1972-2019)
Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian soybean trade: Geopolitics and economic strategies in China’s Northeast, ca. 1870s–1920s
This article examines how soybeans became a global commodity, by focusing on the intermediary role of the Japanese trading company Mitsui Bussan. In the early twentieth century, soybeans were almost exclusively grown in Northeast China, also known as Manchuria. Their global commodification was a result of complex imperial rivalries among China, Japan, and Russia in northeast China as well as the rapid rise of vegetable oil consumption in Europe. …
Okinawa Agriculture and the Sterile Insect Technique
Bitter melon is a popular gourd vegetable native to Okinawa in Japan. However, because of the melon fly, a very damaging pest on the quarantine list, bitter melon could not be sold in mainland Japan until the fly was eradicated from Okinawa Prefecture in 1993 by using the nuclear-derived sterile insect technique (SIT). This essay examines the SIT project in Okinawa that began in 1972 when the United States returned Okinawa to Japan. The twenty-ye…
Cold War Asia as a Method
This essay discusses Asia-to-Asia technical aid—the subject that Aaron S. Moore explored through Japan's dam constructions and Nippon Kōei—by intersecting its historical trajectory with the evolution of South-South Corporation, which was once a crucially important political tool of the Global South. I take a critical look at the 1970s when Asian nations emerged as newly industrializing countries and left the Global South. Using Cold War Asia as a…
History (6 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works)