About Me
Justin Aukema (ジャスティン・アウケマ)
Ph.D. (Sophia University)
Associate Professor, Osaka Metropolitan University
Faculty of Economics
I'm currently Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Osaka Metropolitan University. I specialize in modern Japanese history with a focus on war memory, economy, and politics. I'm currently researching and writing on the history of Japanese capitalism.
I'm currently Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Osaka Metropolitan University. I specialize in modern Japanese history with a focus on war memory, economy, and politics. I'm currently researching and writing on the history of Japanese capitalism.
"Selling Out the Nation to 'Save the Planet,'" Café Américain, 30 Aug. 2024.
"Japan's Vaccine Victims and Their Fight for Justice," Café Américain, 19 Jul. 2024.
"The true cost of Japan's Linear bullet train," Global Voices, 31 Jan. 2024.
"At the Border of Memory and History: Kyoto's Contested War Heritage" (book chapter), Brill, 2023.
Essential Academic Skills for University Research, OMUP, 2023.
"Why Capitalism Loves Degrowth," Compact, 7 Mar. 2023.
"A Hero's Defeat: Modernization Theory and Japanese War Veterans," Japan Focus, 15 May 2022.
"Educational Tourism for the Nation?" (book chapter), Springer, 2022.
"Japan confronts the problem of 'mega solar,'" Global Voices, 6 Mar. 2022.
"Japan's local rail lines become the latest pandemic victim," Global Voices, 24 Feb. 2022.
"Hiroshima A-Bomb Military Facility Scheduled for Destruction," Shingetsu News, 7 Jan. 2020.
"Cultures of (dis)remembrance: War Memories at Shuri Castle," Journal of Contemporary Society, Mar. 2019.
"Cultures of (Dis)remembrance and the Effects of Discourse at the Hiyoshidai Tunnels," Japan Review, 2019.
"The Need to Narrate the Tokyo Air Raids," (book chapter), Routledge, 2016.
"Wartime tunnels under Keio campus threatened," Japan Times, 26 Nov. 2013.
"Last Tokyo street view of Mt. Fuji set to go," Japan Times, 16 Dec. 2012.
"Author sees parallels between prewar, nuclear indoctrination," Japan Times, 20 Mar. 2012.
"Views of valuable cultural assets threatened," Japan Today, 9 Feb. 2012.
