Tomomi Yamaguchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomomi Yamaguchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Yamaguchi |
| SIGNATURE | YAMAGUCHI T |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4681-2808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response to “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War” by J. Mark Ramseyer
The “History Wars” and the “Comfort Woman” Issue
The “History Wars” and the “Comfort Woman” Issue: The Significance of Nippon Kaigi in the Revisionist Movement in Contemporary Japan was published in The Transnational Redress Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery on page 233
The "History Wars" and the "Comfort Woman" Issue
This pair of articles draws on talks by Tomomi Yamaguchi and Satoko Oka Norimatsu at the seminar "The 'History Wars' and the 'Comfort Woman' Issue: Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan, U.S., and Canada," at the Institute of Asian Research, the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), hosted jointly by the Centre of Korean Research and the Centre for Japanese Research, on November 21, 2019. Tomomi Yamaguchi discusses the "h…
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on methodologies and approaches from anthropology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, and sociology, each chapter presents the results of research based on some combination of original archival research, careful textual analy…
Capturing Contemporary Japan
What is the Aim of Nippon Kaigi, the Ultra-Right Organization that Supports Japan's Abe Administration
Nippon Kaigi [The Japan Conference], established in 1997, is the largest right-wing organization in Japan. The organization is a major supporter of the current Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, and both Japanese and foreign media report that Abe, and many of his cabinet, are prominent member of its Diet Members League. Despite Nippon Kaigi's influence on governmental policies of Japan, the organization was little known to the general public until 2015. …
The "Japan Is Great!" Boom, Historical Revisionism, and the Government
As the Tokyo Shimbun reported in its recent article, the expression "Japan Is Great!" and a distinctive nationalistic sentiment associated with it flood the mass media in Japan today. Journalists and television personalities praise Japan ad nauseam. Hayakawa Tadanori is an editor and writer who has extensively covered this "Japan-Is-Great" phenomenon. Analyzing issues surrounding nationalism and propaganda both in pre-war and contemporary Japan, …
Labeled the reporter who "fabricated" the comfort woman issue
Uemura Takashi, a former reporter of the Asahi Shimbun, is currently an adjunct lecturer at Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo. In 1991, while a reporter for the Asahi, he wrote two articles on Kim Hak-sun, the first "comfort woman" to come forward to tell her story (1991). Because of these two articles, Uemura has been the target of denunciations by nationalists. He has been labeled "the reporter who fabricated the 'comfort woman' issue" and d…
Comfort Women' Denial and the Japanese Right
It is a remarkable thing to behold, the extent to which the issue of "comfort women" galvanizes the Japanese right more than two decades after the first Korean survivor appeared in public. The hopeful moments of the Kono Statement (1993) and the Murayama Statement (1995) seem to belong to a remote past. Circumscribed though they were, those official statements by the then chief cabinet secretary (Kono Yohei) and prime minister (Murayama Tomiichi)…
"Gender Free" Feminism in Japan
What March 11 Means to Me
Takahashi Tetsuya, a philosophy professor at the University of Tokyo and a native of Fukushima Prefecture, has traversed the devastated region numerous times since the March 11 disaster, engaging in various kinds of activism. An introduction by the translators is followed by an English translation of Takahashi's speech at the University of Chicago on March 10, 2012, and a postscript written by Takahashi in May 2014. Takahashi explains "nuclear-po…
Xenophobia in Action
This article investigates the use of online communication and social media in connection with the recently emerged right-wing, xenophobic movement in contemporary Japan. Since the early 2000s there has been a surge in xenophobic and racist discourse on the Internet, tied to numerous attacks on Koreans and other ethnic minorities in Japan. The result is that a new nationalist and xenophobic movement, generally referred to as the Action Conservativ…
Muto Ruiko and the Movement of Fukushima Residents to Pursue Criminal Charges against Tepco Executives and Government Officials
Muto Ruiko is a long-time antinuclear activist based in Fukushima. She is also one of 1,324 Fukushima residents who filed a criminal complaint in June 2012 pressing charges against Tepco executives and government officials.This article introduces Muto's activism on nuclear energy, her life before and after the Fukushima Dai'ichi disaster, and her recent effort to mobilize citizens for the criminal complaint. An English translation of Muto's speec…
Gendered Labor Justice and the Law of Peace
In addition to defining specific rights for women, the post-WWII Constitution of Japan (enacted 1947) also articulated a commitment to preserving peace. Article 9 of the Constitution reads in part, "Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a mean of settling international disputes." The "Peace" Constitution…
The Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant
The article explores the controversy surrounding the construction of the Kaminoseki nuclear power plant in Yamaguchi prefecture. While briefly introducing opposition activism against the plant, I introduce the voices of proponents of the plant. By doing so, I highlight the harsh economic realities facing this and other rural communities and divisions within the construction site community
Loser Dogs’ and ‘Demon Hags’
In 2004, the winner of the 'Vogue Word Award' in Japan was the neologism makeinu, which refers to single women in their 30s without children and means, literally, 'loser dogs'. The word was coined by freelance writer Sakai Junko in her best-selling book, Makeinu no Tiboe (Howl of the Loser Dogs). The book has so far sold 330,000 copies, highly unusual for a non-fiction book of this genre. The word makeinu quicldy gained national attention and is …
Xenophobia in Action
This article investigates the use of online communication and social media in connection with the recently emerged right-wing, xenophobic movement in contemporary Japan. Since the early 2000s there has been a surge in xenophobic and racist discourse on the Internet, tied to numerous attacks on Koreans and other ethnic minorities in Japan. The result is that a new nationalist and xenophobic movement, generally referred to as the Action Conservativ…
"Gender Free" Feminism in Japan
Capturing Contemporary Japan
What March 11 Means to Me
Takahashi Tetsuya, a philosophy professor at the University of Tokyo and a native of Fukushima Prefecture, has traversed the devastated region numerous times since the March 11 disaster, engaging in various kinds of activism. An introduction by the translators is followed by an English translation of Takahashi's speech at the University of Chicago on March 10, 2012, and a postscript written by Takahashi in May 2014. Takahashi explains "nuclear-po…
Muto Ruiko and the Movement of Fukushima Residents to Pursue Criminal Charges against Tepco Executives and Government Officials
Muto Ruiko is a long-time antinuclear activist based in Fukushima. She is also one of 1,324 Fukushima residents who filed a criminal complaint in June 2012 pressing charges against Tepco executives and government officials.This article introduces Muto's activism on nuclear energy, her life before and after the Fukushima Dai'ichi disaster, and her recent effort to mobilize citizens for the criminal complaint. An English translation of Muto's speec…
Loser Dogs’ and ‘Demon Hags’
In 2004, the winner of the 'Vogue Word Award' in Japan was the neologism makeinu, which refers to single women in their 30s without children and means, literally, 'loser dogs'. The word was coined by freelance writer Sakai Junko in her best-selling book, Makeinu no Tiboe (Howl of the Loser Dogs). The book has so far sold 330,000 copies, highly unusual for a non-fiction book of this genre. The word makeinu quicldy gained national attention and is …
The Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant
The article explores the controversy surrounding the construction of the Kaminoseki nuclear power plant in Yamaguchi prefecture. While briefly introducing opposition activism against the plant, I introduce the voices of proponents of the plant. By doing so, I highlight the harsh economic realities facing this and other rural communities and divisions within the construction site community
Muto Ruiko and the Movement of Fukushima Residents to Pursue Criminal Charges against Tepco Executives and Government Officials
Muto Ruiko is a long-time antinuclear activist based in Fukushima. She is also one of 1,324 Fukushima residents who filed a criminal complaint in June 2012 pressing charges against Tepco executives and government officials.This article introduces Muto's activism on nuclear energy, her life before and after the Fukushima Dai'ichi disaster, and her recent effort to mobilize citizens for the criminal complaint. An English translation of Muto's speec…
Gendered Labor Justice and the Law of Peace
In addition to defining specific rights for women, the post-WWII Constitution of Japan (enacted 1947) also articulated a commitment to preserving peace. Article 9 of the Constitution reads in part, "Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a mean of settling international disputes." The "Peace" Constitution…
Xenophobia in Action
This article investigates the use of online communication and social media in connection with the recently emerged right-wing, xenophobic movement in contemporary Japan. Since the early 2000s there has been a surge in xenophobic and racist discourse on the Internet, tied to numerous attacks on Koreans and other ethnic minorities in Japan. The result is that a new nationalist and xenophobic movement, generally referred to as the Action Conservativ…
"Gender Free" Feminism in Japan
What March 11 Means to Me
Takahashi Tetsuya, a philosophy professor at the University of Tokyo and a native of Fukushima Prefecture, has traversed the devastated region numerous times since the March 11 disaster, engaging in various kinds of activism. An introduction by the translators is followed by an English translation of Takahashi's speech at the University of Chicago on March 10, 2012, and a postscript written by Takahashi in May 2014. Takahashi explains "nuclear-po…
Labeled the reporter who "fabricated" the comfort woman issue
Uemura Takashi, a former reporter of the Asahi Shimbun, is currently an adjunct lecturer at Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo. In 1991, while a reporter for the Asahi, he wrote two articles on Kim Hak-sun, the first "comfort woman" to come forward to tell her story (1991). Because of these two articles, Uemura has been the target of denunciations by nationalists. He has been labeled "the reporter who fabricated the 'comfort woman' issue" and d…
Comfort Women' Denial and the Japanese Right
It is a remarkable thing to behold, the extent to which the issue of "comfort women" galvanizes the Japanese right more than two decades after the first Korean survivor appeared in public. The hopeful moments of the Kono Statement (1993) and the Murayama Statement (1995) seem to belong to a remote past. Circumscribed though they were, those official statements by the then chief cabinet secretary (Kono Yohei) and prime minister (Murayama Tomiichi)…
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on methodologies and approaches from anthropology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, and sociology, each chapter presents the results of research based on some combination of original archival research, careful textual analy…
Capturing Contemporary Japan
What is the Aim of Nippon Kaigi, the Ultra-Right Organization that Supports Japan's Abe Administration
Nippon Kaigi [The Japan Conference], established in 1997, is the largest right-wing organization in Japan. The organization is a major supporter of the current Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, and both Japanese and foreign media report that Abe, and many of his cabinet, are prominent member of its Diet Members League. Despite Nippon Kaigi's influence on governmental policies of Japan, the organization was little known to the general public until 2015. …
The "Japan Is Great!" Boom, Historical Revisionism, and the Government
As the Tokyo Shimbun reported in its recent article, the expression "Japan Is Great!" and a distinctive nationalistic sentiment associated with it flood the mass media in Japan today. Journalists and television personalities praise Japan ad nauseam. Hayakawa Tadanori is an editor and writer who has extensively covered this "Japan-Is-Great" phenomenon. Analyzing issues surrounding nationalism and propaganda both in pre-war and contemporary Japan, …
The “History Wars” and the “Comfort Woman” Issue
The “History Wars” and the “Comfort Woman” Issue: The Significance of Nippon Kaigi in the Revisionist Movement in Contemporary Japan was published in The Transnational Redress Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery on page 233
The "History Wars" and the "Comfort Woman" Issue
This pair of articles draws on talks by Tomomi Yamaguchi and Satoko Oka Norimatsu at the seminar "The 'History Wars' and the 'Comfort Woman' Issue: Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan, U.S., and Canada," at the Institute of Asian Research, the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), hosted jointly by the Centre of Korean Research and the Centre for Japanese Research, on November 21, 2019. Tomomi Yamaguchi discusses the "h…
Response to “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War” by J. Mark Ramseyer
Political science (13 works) · Japanese History and Culture (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · History (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)