Akiko Takenaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akiko Takenaka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Takenaka |
| SIGNATURE | TAKENAKA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8517-5664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Yasukuni Shrine
This is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine's role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan's modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni's history from its conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan's wars of imperialism to the present. Author Akiko Takenaka departs from existing scholarship o…
Gender and Post‐war Relief
This article analyses the gender implications that emerged through welfare support for the war‐bereaved in post‐Asia‐Pacific War Japan. It follows the foundation, activities and dissolution of the Federation of Bereaved War Victims, the first support group for the war‐bereaved that initially began as an organisation for military widows. After its dissolution, members of the Federation went on to create two separate groups – the Victims’ Federatio…
Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific War
This essay begins with three notable incidents of recent years, which are indicative of contemporary trends in the politics of war memory in Japan. The first is associated with the Abe administration's 2015 passage of the Collective Self Defense Bill: an interpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which allows the Japanese Self Defense Forces to engage in military affairs when an ally of Japan is deemed to be under threat. The secon…
Paternity Testing in Captive Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) using DNA Fingerprinting
Yasukuni Shrine
Yasukuni Shrine, a former national war memorial in which spirits of all Japanese military dead are commemorated, currently serves as the lightening rod for debates surrounding Japan’s legacies of the Asia-Pacific War (1931-45). Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar offers a departure from the existing scholarship that treat the shrine as a political problem by offering a study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It exam…
Collecting for Peace
136 Akiko Takenaka Collecting for Peace: Memories and Objects of the Asia-Pacific War This essay begins with two images: a photograph and a poster. The photograph depicts a cluster of seemingly mundane objects: dust-covered bottles and bins, rusted tools and tool parts—many of them piled together in boxes, most of them without labels. I took the photograph in 2005 at the Haebaru Cultural Center in Okinawa. Haebaru Town was the central location fo…
Mobilizing Death in Imperial Japan
Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar (http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9456-978082 4846787.aspx) (University of Hawaii Press and Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 2015) examines key moments in the one-and-a-half-century history of Yasukuni Shrine, beginning with its conceptualization in the late Tokugawa years and culminating in the political turmoil of the twenty-first century. I decid…
Reactionary Nationalism and Museum Controversies
Using Peace Osaka (an exhibit facility known for its portrayal of the Japanese military’s aggressions during the Asia-Pacific War) as a case study, this essay examines the shift in ways that the war has been portrayed in Japanese museums. Echoing the neo-revisionist turn, a trend that is increasingly apparent in various venues including cultural production and policy making, the exhibit at Peace Osaka will soon be changed in its entirety to erase…
Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States
This essay compares museum representations of WWII from Japan and the USA and discusses how museum curators responded to the changing international and domestic environment in their exhibits. The authors also identify challenges that museum curators in these countries have often faced. In Japan, for example, when the newly opened peace museums in Osaka, Kawasaki, Saitama, and Kanagawa began to depict Japan's role in the Asia-Pacific War from a cr…
Architecture for Mass-Mobilization
Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States since 1995
Museum professionals, like most people, dislike being the focus of criticism, yet many have recently found themselves in this predicament over exhibits focusing on the histories of major social confl icts. An especially tense issue for both Japanese and American museums has been treatment of World War II, particularly how to portray the motives, policies, and conduct of their own governments during the war. Curators have not always been prepared …
Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States
This essay compares museum representations of WWII from Japan and the USA and discusses how museum curators responded to the changing international and domestic environment in their exhibits. The authors also identify challenges that museum curators in these countries have often faced. In Japan, for example, when the newly opened peace museums in Osaka, Kawasaki, Saitama, and Kanagawa began to depict Japan's role in the Asia-Pacific War from a cr…
Enshrinement Politics
This article examines the role of military, emperor and government in the enshrinement of Japan's war dead from 1868 to 2007. Below also find an Asahi Shimbun editorial reflecting on the constitutional and political issues of enshrinement
Plasma cholesterol levels in free-ranging macaques compared with captive macaques and humans
High frequency of triplicatedα-globin genes in tropical primates, crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus)
Male dominance rank and reproductive success in an enclosed group of Japanese macaques
Chimpanzee microsatellite PCR primers applied to paternity testing in a captive colony
Polymorphic microsatellite DNA amplification customized for chimpanzee paternity testing
Paternity discrimination in a Japanese macaque group by DNA fingerprinting
Developmental changes of plasma alkaline phosphatase, calcium, and inorganic phosphorus in relation to the growth of bones in the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
Origin and evolution of the sulawesi macaques 1. Electrophoretic analysis of hemoglobins
Hb Izu (Macaca)β83 (EF 7) Gly→Cys
Hb bali (Macaca) β80 (EF 4) Asn→Lys
Postnatal changes in the blood of Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata)
Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States since 1995
Museum professionals, like most people, dislike being the focus of criticism, yet many have recently found themselves in this predicament over exhibits focusing on the histories of major social confl icts. An especially tense issue for both Japanese and American museums has been treatment of World War II, particularly how to portray the motives, policies, and conduct of their own governments during the war. Curators have not always been prepared …
Gender and Post‐war Relief
This article analyses the gender implications that emerged through welfare support for the war‐bereaved in post‐Asia‐Pacific War Japan. It follows the foundation, activities and dissolution of the Federation of Bereaved War Victims, the first support group for the war‐bereaved that initially began as an organisation for military widows. After its dissolution, members of the Federation went on to create two separate groups – the Victims’ Federatio…
Postnatal changes in the blood of Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata)
Hb Izu (Macaca)β83 (EF 7) Gly→Cys
Hb bali (Macaca) β80 (EF 4) Asn→Lys
Origin and evolution of the sulawesi macaques 1. Electrophoretic analysis of hemoglobins
Developmental changes of plasma alkaline phosphatase, calcium, and inorganic phosphorus in relation to the growth of bones in the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
Paternity discrimination in a Japanese macaque group by DNA fingerprinting
High frequency of triplicatedα-globin genes in tropical primates, crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus)
Male dominance rank and reproductive success in an enclosed group of Japanese macaques
Chimpanzee microsatellite PCR primers applied to paternity testing in a captive colony
Polymorphic microsatellite DNA amplification customized for chimpanzee paternity testing
Plasma cholesterol levels in free-ranging macaques compared with captive macaques and humans
Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States since 1995
Museum professionals, like most people, dislike being the focus of criticism, yet many have recently found themselves in this predicament over exhibits focusing on the histories of major social confl icts. An especially tense issue for both Japanese and American museums has been treatment of World War II, particularly how to portray the motives, policies, and conduct of their own governments during the war. Curators have not always been prepared …
Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States
This essay compares museum representations of WWII from Japan and the USA and discusses how museum curators responded to the changing international and domestic environment in their exhibits. The authors also identify challenges that museum curators in these countries have often faced. In Japan, for example, when the newly opened peace museums in Osaka, Kawasaki, Saitama, and Kanagawa began to depict Japan's role in the Asia-Pacific War from a cr…
Enshrinement Politics
This article examines the role of military, emperor and government in the enshrinement of Japan's war dead from 1868 to 2007. Below also find an Asahi Shimbun editorial reflecting on the constitutional and political issues of enshrinement
Architecture for Mass-Mobilization
Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States
This essay compares museum representations of WWII from Japan and the USA and discusses how museum curators responded to the changing international and domestic environment in their exhibits. The authors also identify challenges that museum curators in these countries have often faced. In Japan, for example, when the newly opened peace museums in Osaka, Kawasaki, Saitama, and Kanagawa began to depict Japan's role in the Asia-Pacific War from a cr…
Reactionary Nationalism and Museum Controversies
Using Peace Osaka (an exhibit facility known for its portrayal of the Japanese military’s aggressions during the Asia-Pacific War) as a case study, this essay examines the shift in ways that the war has been portrayed in Japanese museums. Echoing the neo-revisionist turn, a trend that is increasingly apparent in various venues including cultural production and policy making, the exhibit at Peace Osaka will soon be changed in its entirety to erase…
Paternity Testing in Captive Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) using DNA Fingerprinting
Yasukuni Shrine
Yasukuni Shrine, a former national war memorial in which spirits of all Japanese military dead are commemorated, currently serves as the lightening rod for debates surrounding Japan’s legacies of the Asia-Pacific War (1931-45). Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar offers a departure from the existing scholarship that treat the shrine as a political problem by offering a study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It exam…
Collecting for Peace
136 Akiko Takenaka Collecting for Peace: Memories and Objects of the Asia-Pacific War This essay begins with two images: a photograph and a poster. The photograph depicts a cluster of seemingly mundane objects: dust-covered bottles and bins, rusted tools and tool parts—many of them piled together in boxes, most of them without labels. I took the photograph in 2005 at the Haebaru Cultural Center in Okinawa. Haebaru Town was the central location fo…
Mobilizing Death in Imperial Japan
Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar (http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9456-978082 4846787.aspx) (University of Hawaii Press and Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 2015) examines key moments in the one-and-a-half-century history of Yasukuni Shrine, beginning with its conceptualization in the late Tokugawa years and culminating in the political turmoil of the twenty-first century. I decid…
Gender and Post‐war Relief
This article analyses the gender implications that emerged through welfare support for the war‐bereaved in post‐Asia‐Pacific War Japan. It follows the foundation, activities and dissolution of the Federation of Bereaved War Victims, the first support group for the war‐bereaved that initially began as an organisation for military widows. After its dissolution, members of the Federation went on to create two separate groups – the Victims’ Federatio…
Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific War
This essay begins with three notable incidents of recent years, which are indicative of contemporary trends in the politics of war memory in Japan. The first is associated with the Abe administration's 2015 passage of the Collective Self Defense Bill: an interpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which allows the Japanese Self Defense Forces to engage in military affairs when an ally of Japan is deemed to be under threat. The secon…
Yasukuni Shrine
This is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine's role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan's modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni's history from its conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan's wars of imperialism to the present. Author Akiko Takenaka departs from existing scholarship o…
Biology (13 works) · Zoology (12 works) · Animal ecology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Genetics (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Politics (6 works)