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Bull Jonathan Edward

Institute for Academic Innovation　Educational Research DivisionLecturer
Center for Language LearningLecturer
Institute for Academic InnovationLecturer

Researcher basic information

■ Degree
  • PhD, Hokkaido University
■ URL
researchmap URL■ Various IDs
J-Global ID■ Research Keywords and Fields
Research Keyword
  • social history
  • cultural history
  • oral history
  • end of empire migration
  • decolonization
  • Hokkaido history
  • Karafuto history
Research Field
  • Humanities & Social Sciences, Japanese history
■ Educational Organization

Career

■ Career
Career
  • Sep. 2018 - Present
    Hokkaido University, Modern Japanese Studies Program, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Lecturer
  • Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2019
    Fuji Women's University, Faculty of Humanities, English Language and Culture, Adjunct Professor
  • Apr. 2017 - Aug. 2018
    Hokkaido University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2017
    Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Law, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2017
    Hokusei Gakuen University, International Education and Language Center, Adjunct Professor
Educational Background
  • Oct. 2009 - Mar. 2014, Hokkaido University, School of Law, Doctoral course
  • Sep. 2006 - Aug. 2007, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), MA Japanese Studies
  • Sep. 1998 - Aug. 2001, University of Oxford, Wadham College, BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics

Research activity information

■ Awards
  • Feb. 2017, 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
    Jonathan Edward Bull
■ Papers
■ Other Activities and Achievements
  • Book review of 'Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan', by Paul Hansen
    Jonathan Bull, Monumenta Nipponica, 80, 2, 326, 329, Mar. 2026, [Invited], [Lead author]
    English
  • 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, Dec. 2023, [Invited], [Lead author]
    English, Book review
  • Japanese Studies Open House
    Jonathan Bull, JSPS San Francisco Newsletter, 54, 13, 14, 2022, [Lead author]
    English, Meeting report
  • 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, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author]
    Adam Matthew Digital, English, Introduction other

    Summary
  • 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, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author]
    Adam Matthew Digital, English, Introduction other

    Summary
  • Kinnen no eigoken no Saharin/Karafuto shi kenkyū (trans Nakayama Taishō)
    Jonathan Bull, Hoppō jinbun kenkyū, 13, 159, 163, Mar. 2020, [Invited]
    Japanese, Introduction scientific journal

    Preprint
  • Eizō ya engeki nado no taishū bunka ga aratana Hokkaidō shi ni motarasu mono toha
    Jonathan Bull, Hokkaidōshi e no tobira, 1, 9, 10, Mar. 2020, [Invited]
    Japanese, Introduction research institution

    Download
  • 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, Mar. 2018, [Invited]
    北海道出版企画センター, Japanese, Introduction scientific journal
  • Border tourism and modes of remembrance
    Jonathan Edward Bull, Border Bites, 10, 1, 10, 2018, [Invited]
    English, Others

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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, [Invited]
    English, Book review
  • 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, [Invited]
    English, Book review
■ Books and other publications
  • Hokkaidō gendaishi Shiryōhen1 (Seiji/gyōsei)
    Hokkaidōsōmubu gyōseikyoku bunshoka dōshihensanshitsu, Hokkaidō e idō suru hitobito (Kokusai kankei) (pp. 454-459)
    Hokkaidō, Mar. 2025
  • Japanese Repatriation Museums and Bordering Memories of Empire
    Jonathan Bull, in: E. Boyle and S. Ivings (eds.) Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire
    Bloomsbury, 2024, 9781350324626, [Contributor]
  • 'Japanese-language historiography about end of empire migration: revising the extruded history of repatriation and hikiagesha'
    Jonathan Bull, in: S. Paichadze and J. Bull (eds.), End of Empire Migrants in East Asia: Repatriates, Returnees and Finding Home
    Routledge, 2023, 9781032284972, 13, 29, English, Scholarly book, [Peer-reviewed], [Contributor]
  • 'Introduction'
    Svetlana Paichadze; Jonathan Bull, in: End of Empire Migrants in East Asia: Repatriates, Returnees and Finding Home
    Routledge, 2023, 1, 11, English, ［Internationally co-authored］, [Peer-reviewed], [Joint work]
  • 「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, 『日本の境界：国家と人々の相克』pp 69-86
    北海道大学出版会, Nov. 2022, Scholarly book, [Contributor]
  • '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
    Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University, Mar. 2021, [Contributor]
  • Migration, Refugees and the Environment from Security Perspectives, Slavic Eurasia Papers No.12
    Iwashita, Akihiro; Jusen Asuka; Jonathan Bull
    Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2018, [Joint editor]
  • Positioning Asia and Kyushu in Shifting Global Politics, Slavic Eurasia Papers No.9
    Iwashita, Akihiro; Jonathan Bull
    Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2017, [Joint editor]
  • Occupation-era Hokkaido and the emergence of the Karafuto repatriate: the role of repatriate leaders
    Jonathan Bull, in 'Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto/Sakhalin,' S. Paichadze & P. Seaton (eds.)
    Routledge, 2015, 9781138804784, 240, English, Scholarly book, [Contributor]
  • Ohashi Kazuyoshi and the Transition of Karafuto into Sakhalin
    Jonathan Bull, in 'Borders and transborder processes in Eurasia,' S. Sevastianov, P. Richardson & A. Kireev (eds.)
    Far Eastern Federal University Press, 2013, 249, English, Scholarly book, [Contributor]
■ Syllabus
  • 特別講義, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際
  • Modern Japanese Studies, 2024年, 修士課程, 国際広報メディア・観光学院
  • Tourism and Public History, 2024年, 修士課程, 国際広報メディア・観光学院
  • プロジェクトスタディⅠ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • プロジェクトスタディⅡ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • プロジェクトスタディⅢ（卒業論文）, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • Aspects of Japan Ⅰ, 2024年, 学士課程, 総合教育部
  • Aspects of Japan Ⅰ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • General Education Seminar, 2024年, 学士課程, 総合教育部
  • General Education Seminar, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • 国際交流Ⅱ, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際本部
  • Introduction to Japanese Studies Ⅰ(History), 2024年, 学士課程, 総合教育部
  • Introduction to Japanese Studies Ⅰ(History), 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • 日本学講読, 2024年, 学士課程, 全学教育
  • 日本歴史論Ⅰ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • 特別講義, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際本部
■ Research Themes
  • Sites of Contestation or Connection? Japan's imperial heritage and borders of memory
    科学研究費助成事業
    Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2027
    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
    日本学術振興会, 基盤研究(B), 国際日本文化研究センター, Coinvestigator, 23H00781
  • Comparing Japanese repatriation museums and German forced migration museums
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
    Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2026
    Jonathan Bull
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Principal investigator
  • Examining Diverse Perceptions and Memories of the Cold War from the Perspective of Local Communities: Focusing on the Western Pacific Region
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
    Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2025
    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。
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kyoto University, Others, 21H00557
  • The role of private charities in repatriation from the Japanese Empire
    Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (extended due to Covid)
    Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2024
    Jonathan Edward Bull
    JSPS Kakenhi, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • Between "repatriation" and "returning home": "Returns" from former colonies to Japan in the 1950s to 1970s
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
    Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2022
    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.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, Coinvestigator, 19H04346
  • Comprehensive study of the war between Japan and the USSR including repatriation and internment,
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
    Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2021
    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.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Hokkaido University, Coinvestigator, 17H00924
  • Comparative Research on museum displays in Japan and Germany of post-WW2 population movement
    Interdisciplinary Research on the Function of National Histories and Collective Memories for the Democracy in the Globalized Society, Program for Younger Scholars
    Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2019
    Principal investigator; Hashimoto Nobuya; Co-investigator; Jonathan Bull
    JSPS Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Science Research, Competitive research funding