Researcher Profile and Settings

Affiliation

• Research Faculty of Media and Communication　Division of Modern Japanese Studies　Modern Japanese Studies

Job Title

• Lecturer

Degree

• PhD（Hokkaido University）

J-Global ID

• 201401069899097694

Research Interests

• social history   cultural history   oral history   end of empire migration   decolonization   Hokkaido history   Karafuto history   

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / History - Japan

Educational Organization

•  Master's degree program　Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies
•  Doctoral (PhD) degree program　Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies

Academic & Professional Experience

• 2018/09 - Today Hokkaido University Modern Japanese Studies Program, Research Faculty of Media and Communication Lecturer
• 2014/04 - 2019/03 Fuji Women's University Faculty of Humanities, English Language and Culture Adjunct Professor
• 2017/04 - 2018/08 Hokkaido University Slavic-Eurasian Research Center Assistant Professor
• 2014/04 - 2017/03 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Law Assistant Professor
• 2013/04 - 2017/03 Hokusei Gakuen University International Education and Language Center Adjunct Professor

Education

• 2009/10 - 2014/03  Hokkaido University  School of Law  Doctoral course
• 2006/09 - 2007/08  School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)  MA Japanese Studies
• 1998/09 - 2001/08  University of Oxford  Wadham College  BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics

Research Activities

Published Papers

• End of empire migration as evacuation and individual flight: the far north of the Japanese empire, 1945-1947

  Jonathan Bull

  Cultural and Social History 20 (2) 267 - 285 2023 [Refereed]
  
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• National belonging and the production of neglect in the Japanese repatriate figure, 1945-1950

  Jonathan Bull

  Journal of Migration History 8 (3) 347 - 373 2022 [Refereed]
  
• Investigating the Ukishima-maru Incident in Occupied Japan: Survivor Testimonies and Related Documents

  Jonathan Bull, Steven Ivings

  The Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus 19 (3) 1 - 21 2021 [Refereed]
  
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• Korean Repatriation and Historical Memory in Postwar Japan: Remembering the Ukishima-maru Incident at Maizuru and Shimokita

  Jonathan Bull, Steven Ivings

  The Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus 18 (21 (5)) 1 - 22 2020 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
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• Return on display: memories of postcolonial migration at Maizuru

  Jonathan Bull, Steven Ivings

  Japan Forum 31 (3) 336 - 357 0955-5803 2019 [Refereed][Invited]
  
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• Karafuto Repatriates and the Work of the Hakodate Regional Repatriation Centre, 1945-50

  Jonathan Bull

  Journal of Contemporary History 53 (4) 788 - 810 2018 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
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• 'Karafuto hikiagesha' zō no sōshutsu

  Jonathan Bull

  Hokkaido-Tohoku shi kenkyu 北海道出版企画センター 9 (9) 24 - 43 2013 [Refereed][Not invited]
  

Books etc

• Japanese Repatriation Museums and Bordering Memories of Empire (forthcoming)

  Jonathan Bull (Contributorin: E. Boyle and S. Ivings (eds.) Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire (forthcoming))
  Bloomsbury 2024
• 'Japanese-language historiography about end of empire migration: revising the extruded history of repatriation and hikiagesha'

  Jonathan Bull (Contributorin: S. Paichadze and J. Bull (eds.), End of Empire Migrants in East Asia: Repatriates, Returnees and Finding Home)
  Routledge 2023 (ISBN: 9781032284972) 13 29
• 'Introduction'

  Svetlana Paichadze, Jonathan Bull (Joint workin: End of Empire Migrants in East Asia: Repatriates, Returnees and Finding Home)
  Routledge 2023 1 11
• 「引揚を難民として考える―大日本帝国崩壊後の再評価」

  池炫周直美, エドワード・ボイル編 (Contributor『日本の境界：国家と人々の相克』pp 69-86)
  北海道大学出版会 2022/11
• 'Sakhalin Koreans, Red Army reenactment and the construction of silence of historical memory: comments on the second session presentations' in Russia and its East Asian neighbors: Regions and people beyond borders

  Georgy Buntilov, Svetlana Paichadze (Contributor)
  Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University 2021/03
• Migration, Refugees and the Environment from Security Perspectives, Slavic Eurasia Papers No.12

  Iwashita, Akihiro, Jusen Asuka, Jonathan Bull (Joint editor)
  Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University 2018
• Positioning Asia and Kyushu in Shifting Global Politics, Slavic Eurasia Papers No.9

  Iwashita, Akihiro, Jonathan Bull (Joint editor)
  Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University 2017
• Occupation-era Hokkaido and the emergence of the Karafuto repatriate: the role of repatriate leaders

  Jonathan Bull (Contributorin 'Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto/Sakhalin,' S. Paichadze & P. Seaton (eds.))
  Routledge 2015 (ISBN: 9781138804784) 240
• Ohashi Kazuyoshi and the Transition of Karafuto into Sakhalin

  Jonathan Bull (Contributorin 'Borders and transborder processes in Eurasia,' S. Sevastianov, P. Richardson & A. Kireev (eds.))
  Far Eastern Federal University Press 2013 249

MISC

• Book review of 'Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan', by Sherzod Muminov

  Jonathan Bull  Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies  38-  243  -245  2023/12  [Not refereed][Invited]
  
• Japanese Studies Open House

  Jonathan Bull  JSPS San Francisco Newsletter  54-  13  -14  2022  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Using a Promotional Film to Analyse British Tourism in the 1950s and 1960s

  Jonathan Bull  Research Methods Primary Sources, Adam Matthew Digital  1  -15  2021  [Refereed][Invited]
  

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• Using a Pamphlet as a Primary Source: A Case Study of the American Ex-Servicemen’s Association’s Pamphlet Australia. A New Home?

  Jonathan Bull  Research Methods Primary Sources, Adam Matthew Digital  1  -19  2021  [Refereed][Invited]
  

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• Kinnen no eigoken no Saharin/Karafuto shi kenkyū (trans Nakayama Taishō)

  Jonathan Bull  Hoppō jinbun kenkyū  13-  159  -163  2020/03  [Not refereed][Invited]
  

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• Eizō ya engeki nado no taishū bunka ga aratana Hokkaidō shi ni motarasu mono toha

  Jonathan Bull  Hokkaidōshi e no tobira  1-  9  -10  2020/03  [Not refereed][Invited]
  

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• The 41st seminar of the association for the study of Sakhalin/Karafuto history: accomplishments and problems of historical studies of postwar Karafuto

  Jonathan Bull, Nakayama Taishō, Takeno Manabu, Kimura Yumi, Svetlana Paichadze  Hokkaido/Tohoku shi kenkyū  11-  (11)  108  -119  2018/03  [Not refereed][Invited]
  
• Border tourism and modes of remembrance

  Jonathan Edward Bull  Border Bites  10-  1  -10  2018  [Not refereed][Invited]
  

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• A review of 'Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice,' by B. Kushner

  Jonathan Edward Bull  Asian Review of World Histories  3-  (2)  273  -275  2015  [Not refereed][Invited]
  
• A review of 'When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan,' by L. Watt

  Jonathan Edward Bull  Eurasia Border Review  3-  (1)  133  -135  2012  [Not refereed][Invited]
  

Awards & Honors

• 2017/02 Nathan & Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and University of Maryland Libraries 20th Century Japan Research Award
   Settling the unsettled: history and memory in the construction of the Karafuto Repatriate 

  受賞者: Jonathan Edward Bull

Research Grants & Projects

• Sites of Contestation or Connection? Japan's imperial heritage and borders of memory

  日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業

  Date (from‐to) : 2023/04 -2027/03 

  Author : BOYLE EDWARD, 古川 浩司, 飯高 伸五, バリガ マリア・シンシェア, 池 ヒョン周・直美, 清水 佳理, ブル ジョナサンエドワード, Ivings Steven
• Comparing Japanese repatriation museums and German forced migration museums

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

  Date (from‐to) : 2023/04 -2026/03 

  Author : Jonathan Bull
• Examining Diverse Perceptions and Memories of the Cold War from the Perspective of Local Communities: Focusing on the Western Pacific Region

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

  Date (from‐to) : 2021/04 -2025/03 

  Author : 貴志 俊彦

   

  本国際共同研究は、戦後直後あるいは占領期の西太平洋地域を研究対象として、地域社会の冷戦認識に影響をもたらした公式／非公式メデイア、マスメディア／パーソナルメディア／パブリックメディアに着目して進めている。ただし、コロナ禍が継続していたため、やむを得ず国内外の調査および公表など諸々の活動を中止。その代わりに、共同研究傘下の各班は資料調査を重点化し、相応の成果をあげてきた。 【総括班】GHQ/SCAPの撮影映像「終戦直後と日本占領下の記録」全120巻（エムティ出版、2014年）を入手。その一部を各班別に閲覧をおこない分析を継続中。また、香川県などで終戦前後の俘虜収容所関係文献調査、愛知県や神奈川県などの旧軍基地一帯でのヒアリング調査を実施。さらに、台湾の国史館オンラインデータベースを活用して、戦前戦後の南米華僑をめぐる状況調査を進める。【都市メディア班】米国所蔵のカラーフィルムを収集し、京都文化博物館において企画展示「戦後京都の『色』はアメリカにあった！」を開催（7月24日開催、8月19日にコロナ禍の影響で開催を停止）。国内では立川、横田における米軍基地関連写真を収集、同地でヒアリング調査を実施。 【フィールドメディア班＆映像メディア班】沖縄および東京などで、高等弁務官府「写真ニュース」（1960-70年）、沖縄県公文書館新規公開の千点あまりの写真資料「USCAR広報局写真資料、英文記録Civil Affairs Activities in the Ryukyu Islands、月刊誌『オキナワグラフ』（1958-72年）などの収集を継続中。【マイグレーションとメディア班】舞鶴引揚記念館との間で共同研究推進について協議を進めたほか、戦後引揚事業（1945‐1958年）に関する新聞記事情報の収集を開始。
• The role of private charities in repatriation from the Japanese Empire

  JSPS Kakenhi：Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (extended due to Covid)

  Date (from‐to) : 2018/04 -2024/03 

  Author : Jonathan Edward Bull
• Between "repatriation" and "returning home": "Returns" from former colonies to Japan in the 1950s to 1970s

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

  Date (from‐to) : 2019/04 -2022/03 

  Author : Hyun Mooam

   

  In previous studies, the return of postwar Japanese from Japanese colonies and occupied territories（gaichi）such as China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, and Sakhalin to Japan proper (naichi) was divided into two categories: "repatriation" which occurred immediately after the end of the war and "return" which happened from the 1980s onwards. In contrast, this study focused on the many unique return experiences that happened from the 1950s to the 1970s and that could not be explained by the conventional framework. As a result of examining "repatriation" and "return" and the change of the Japanese government’s national policies, the part of the political mechanism when the "return" policy was begun in postwar Japan became clear. Furthermore, this study clarified the social and cultural mechanisms that included/excluded people who crossed the border toward Japan while it was transforming into a nation-state.
• Comprehensive study of the war between Japan and the USSR including repatriation and internment,

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

  Date (from‐to) : 2017/04 -2021/03 

  Author : Shirakizawa Asahiko

   

  Regarding the war between Japan and the USSR in August 1945, we examined how the battle in Manchuria proceeded. In addition, we analyzed Soviet military strategy in Karafuto. We found that the Kwantung Army let its soldiers die in vain and failed to protect settlers. We also investigated the role of the Manchukuo Imperial Army and the Mongolian military in this war. Concerning the Siberian Internment, using Soviet documents, we shed light on female internees and internees charged with political crimes. About repatriation, we clarified measures taken by the Japanese government, including at the Hakodate Regional Repatriation Centre. Furthermore, we examined Soviet treatment of Japanese people in Karafuto, emphasizing the import of those Japanese who remained living in Sakhalin after it became the territory of the Soviet Union.
• Comparative Research on museum displays in Japan and Germany of post-WW2 population movement

  JSPS Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Science Research：Interdisciplinary Research on the Function of National Histories and Collective Memories for the Democracy in the Globalized Society, Program for Younger Scholars

  Date (from‐to) : 2018/04 -2019/03 

  Author : Principal investigator, Hashimoto Nobuya, Co-investigator, Jonathan Bull

Educational Activities

Teaching Experience