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Articles/Book Chapters 

Forthcoming    “In the Black Ships’ Wake: Early American Enterprise at Treaty Port Hakodate” together with Rashaad Eshack. Forthcoming in Pacific Historical Review

2022                "Western Merchants and the Meiji Transition: John Henry Duus at Treaty Port Hakodate (Part Two 1868-89)," Shashi: The Journal of Japanese Business and Company History

2022                "British Trade at Hakodate during the Boshin War", The Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12) Proceedings (link)

2022                "American Pacific Whaling at Hakodate before the Meiji Restoration" Journal of Liberal Arts Vol. 150 (link)

2021                “Western Merchants and Intra-Asian Trade: John Henry Duus at Treaty port Hakodate”, Shashi: The journal of Japanese Business and Company History, 6/1 (link)

2021                “Investigating the Ukishima-maru Incident in Occupied Japan: Survivor Testimonies and Related Documents”, together with Jonathan Bull, Asia-Pacific Journal 19/19 (link)

2020                “Korean Repatriation and Historical Memory in Postwar Japan: Remembering the Ukishima-maru Incident at Maizuru and Shimokita” together with Jonathan Bull, Asia-Pacific Journal 18/21 (link)

2020                “Settling the Frontier and Defending the North: "Farmer-Solders" in Hokkaido's Colonial Development and National Reconciliation”, in Fuess, H. & Hellyer, R. (eds.) The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation (Cambridge University Press) (link)

2020                “Fostering a Trade in Japan’s Northeast: The West Pacific Company at Hakodate in the 1860s” Commodities of Empire Working Paper No.33 (link)

2019                “China and Japan’s Northern Frontier: Chinese Merchants in Nineteenth Century Hokkaido” together with Qiu Datong, Canadian Journal of History 54/3 (link)

2019                “Return on Display: Memories of Postcolonial Migration at Maizuru” together with Jonathan Bull, Japan Forum 31/3 (link)

2018                “Trade and Conflict at the Japanese Frontier: Hakodate as a Treaty Port 1854-1884,” Transcultural Studies Vol 8/2 (link)

2018                “Settler Colony or Labour Destination? Karafuto as a Japanese Colony 1905-1930,” in Ivings, S. & Kirchberger, U. (eds.) Global Diasporas in the Age of High Imperialism (Peter Lang) (link)

2017                “The Economic Reintegration of Former Colonial Residents in Postwar Japan,” French, T. (ed.) The Economic and Business History of Occupied Japan: New Perspectives, (Routledge) (link)

2016                “Recruitment and Coercion in Japan’s Far North: Evidence from Colonial Karafuto’s Forestry and Construction Industries, 1910-37”, Labor History Vol. 57/2 (link)

 

Book/Thesis

2018                Global Diasporas in the Age of High Imperialism (Peter Lang) (co-edited with                             Ulrike Kirchberger) (link)

2015                Colonial Settlement and Migratory Labour in Karafuto 1905-1941, PhD Thesis in Economic History (open-access via LSE Thesis Online)

 

Book Reviews

2022               Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov (eds.) Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia : Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding, in Japan Review (link) 

2022               Andrew Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India, Yale University Press 2020, in Middle Ground Journal (link)

2022               Peer Vries, Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868–1937, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2019, in Japan Forum (link)

2021                Christof  Dejung, David Motadel, and Jürgen Osterhammel (eds.) The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire, Princeton University Press 2019, in Middle Ground Journal (link)

2021                David Fedman Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea, University of Washington Press 2020, in Middle Ground Journal (link)

2020            中山大将著　「サハリン残留日本人と戦後日本―樺太住民の境界地域史」（国際書院2019年）in 地域研究 (link)

2017                Svetlana Paichadze and Philip Seaton (eds.) Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border, Routledge 2015, in Middle Ground Journal (link)

2013                Jun Uchida, Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea 1876-1945, Harvard University Asia Center 2011, in Eurasia Border Review (link)


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