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 (formerly City) University. I specialize in modern Japanese history with a focus on war memory, economy, and politics. Below is a partial list of publications.

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Published Works

Edited Volumes
Sven Saaler and Justin Aukema, "The Politics of Memory in Japan and East Asia," Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Course Reader No. 7, 2013.

Journal and other articles
Aukema, Justin. “A Problem for all humanity: Nagasaki Writer Hayashi Kyoko Probes the Dangers of Nuclear Energy.” The Asia – Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Vol. 9, Issue 52, No. 3 (26 December 2011).

Aukema, Justin. "The Need to Narrate the Tokyo Air Raids: The Literature of Saotome Katsumoto." In Rachael Hutchinson and Leith Morton eds. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature, Routledge 2016.

アウケマ、ジャスティン.「日本における戦争遺跡保存:<遺産>と<歴史認識>の視点から」.『登戸研究所保存の会会報』第7号2016年11月30日.

アウケマ、ジャスティン.「陸軍軍医学校跡を歩いて」.『究明する会ニュース』186号2017年7月9日.

アウケマ、ジャスティン.「「(非)記憶する文化」と日吉台地下壕における言説の結果」.『現代社会研究』第21号(2019年1月):19-36.

Aukema, Justin.“Cultures of(Dis)remembrance and the Effects of Discourse at the Hiyoshidai Tunnels.” Japan Review, No.32 (Feb. 2019): 127-150.

Aukema, Justin. “Cultures of (dis)remembrance: War Memories atShuri Castle.”『現代社会研究科論集』第13号(2019年3月).

Newspapers
Justin Aukema. “Views of valuable cultural assets threatened.” Japan Today. 9 February 2012.

Justin Aukema. “Author sees parallels between prewar, nuclear indoctrination.” The Japan Times. 20 March 2012.

Justin Aukema. “Last Tokyo street view of Mt. Fuji set to go.” The Japan Times. 16 December 2012.

Justin Aukema. "Wartime tunnels under Keio campus threatened." The Japan Times. 26 November 2013.

Justin Aukema, "Hiroshima A-Bomb Military Facility Scheduled for Destruction," Shingetsu News Agency, January 7, 2020. 

Translations
Sato Takumi. “Consumption of Images of Nazi Culture in Postwar Japan.” Translated by Justin Aukema in Mutual Perceptions in Japanese-German Relations: Images, Imaginings, and Stereotypes. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Kawakita Atsuko. “Images of Japan in German Media: Images of Self and Other in Relation to the ‘Past.’” Translated by Justin Aukema in Sven, Saaler, Mutual Perceptions in Japanese-German Relations: Images, Imaginings, and Stereotypes. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Theses
Justin Aukema. “The Smithsonian – Enola Gay Controversy: Including Wisconsin Perspectives on the Exhibit and the Atomic Bombings,” B.A. Graduation Capstone, Presented at the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire, 2008

Justin Aukema. "Passing on the Memory of the Great Tokyo Air Raid in Saotome Katsumoto's War and Youth." M.A. Thesis, Presented at Sophia University, Sept. 2012.

Aukema, Justin. "SENSEKI: Memories, Narratives, and Ideologies at Japanese War Sites." Ph.D. Dissertation. Presented at Sophia University, January 2020.

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