{"id":359,"date":"2014-07-22T04:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/?post_type=news&p=359"},"modified":"2014-07-22T04:21:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:21:41","slug":"ikmas-seminar-series-1514","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/news\/ikmas-seminar-series-1514\/","title":{"rendered":"IKMAS SEMINAR SERIES 15\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"
What Sort of War was the First World War for Japan?<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
By:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Prof. Dr. Naoko Shimazu<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Professor of History, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of London<\/span><\/div>\n
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Date\/Venue:<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/strong>24th July 2014<\/span><\/span> (Thursday); 10.00 am – 11.15 am<\/span><\/span>
\nIKMAS Seminar Room, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Abstract<\/strong>
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Mainstream historiography of Japan in the First World War generally does not employ the framework of \u2018Japan at war\u2019. More often than not, the war is defined as the \u2018European War\u2019 (\u014csh\u016b sens\u014d) or even the \u2018Japan-German War\u2019 (Nichidoku sens\u014d) betraying Japan\u2019s limited combatant role. However, it was also the Japanese who had recognized the global nature of the war as early as September 1914, by referring to it as the \u2018Great World War\u2019 (sekai taisen). Unlike many Western powers, Japan was a well-practised combatant state by 1914, having won two international wars in 1894-95 and 1904-5. Hence, we see threads of continuity in Japanese wartime activities connecting the 1914-18 experiences to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, for example, in Japan\u2019s \u2018diplomacy of humanitarianism\u2019 over its treatment of the POWs from the siege of Qingdao. For the Japanese military observers, the First World War was pivotal in gaining first-hand observations, which formed the basis of Japan\u2019s future vision for a \u2018total war\u2019 (s\u014dryokusen). The story of Japan\u2019s involvement is integral to the global story of \u2018modern societies at war\u2019, as Japan became a foremost practitioner of a fashionable contemporary thinking that prioritized a strong military in the construction of an ideal modern society.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Biographical Sketch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naoko Shimazu is Professor of History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London. Her major publications include Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia (co-editor, Routledge, 2013), Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Nationalisms in Japan (editor, Routledge, 2006), Japan, Race and Equality: Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 (Routledge, 1998), as well as scholarly articles in Modern Asian Studies, Political Geography, Russian Review, Journal of Contemporary History, War and Society. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professorial Associate of Japan Research Centre at SOAS, a former fellow of the Japan Foundation and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She serves on the editorial boards of Japan Forum, Reviews in History, and Modern Asian Studies. Her current major project is a monograph, Diplomacy as Theatre: Asian and African Performances at the Bandung Conference of 1955.<\/p>\n

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