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Sheftall George Mordecai

シェフタル モーデカイ | Sheftall George Mordecai
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Homepage URL  (1): http://www.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/english/labs/society_detail.html?UC=sheftall
Research field  (1): History - Japan
Research keywords  (10): Terror Management Theory and Culture ,  American History ,  Kamikaze Corps ,  Cultural Theory ,  Culture and War ,  Atomic Bomb Survivors ,  Hibakusha ,  Nagasaki ,  Hiroshima ,  Modern Japanese Cultural History
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (7):
  • 2018 - 2023 Hibakusha Lives and Collective Memory Communities in the 21st Century
  • 2018 - 2023 Hibakusha Lives and Collective Memory Communities in the 21st Century
  • 2012 - 2018 Postwar Memorialization Discourses in Defeated Communities: An International Comparative Study
  • 2012 - 2018 Postwar Memorialization Discourses in Defeated Communities: An International Comparative Study
  • 2009 - Travel grant
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Papers (2):
  • M.G. Sheftall. Review of Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces. Monumentica Nipponica Vol 73 No 1. 2018. 73. 1. 115-118
  • M.G. Sheftall. "Inconvenient heroes: Managed war memories in Occupation Era Japan". Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, Vol 4 No 2. 2010. 86-102
MISC (2):
  • M.G. Sheftall. Review of KAMIKAZE DIARIES: REFLECTIONS OF JAPANESE STUDENT SOLDIERS (Ohnuki-Tierney, E. (2006). Chicago: University of Chicago). 2008. 10. 1. 114-117
  • M.G. Sheftall. Review of KAMIKAZE, CHERRY BLOSSOMS AND NATIONALISMS (Ohnuki-Tierney, E. (2002) Chicago: University of Chicago Press). 2004. 112. 3. 278-280
Books (10):
  • Japan's Demographic Revival
    World Scientific Publishing 2016
  • The Pacific War: Aftermaths, Remembrance and Culture
    Routledge 2014
  • How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender
    Oxford University Press 2012
  • The Origins of the Second World War
    Hambledon & London 2011
  • DEFEAT AND MEMORY
    Palgrave Macmillan 2008
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Lectures and oral presentations  (15):
  • “Hiroshima Protests, Nagasaki Prays: Divergent Narratives in Early Postwar Atomic Bombing Memorialization Discourse”
    (Asian Studies Conference Japan 2019 2019)
  • 1945: Japan's Imperial Apocalypse and Aftermath -- A theoretical and historical examination of the origins and evolution of modern Japanese cultural space
    (Summer Studies in Japanese Culture 2016)
  • Lecture on the significance of the kamikaze exhibit at the Battleship Missouri Museum
    (Battleship Missouri Museum, Pearl Harbor, US 2015)
  • "Narrative for Armageddon: Japanese establishment rhetoric during the final months of the Asia-Pacific War"
    (Eighteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan 2014)
  • 日本文化形成と戦争の記憶:文化論から見る戦後日本の戦争記憶言説空間
    (日文研 2012)
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Education (4):
  • - 2009 Waseda University
  • - 2009 Waseda University Graduate School, Division of History and Anthropology Modern day ”bushido” as a Japanese hero-system
  • - 1999 バーミングハム大学大学院 言語文化研究科 外国語学習における文化と性格的な要因
  • - 1999 University of Birmingham Centre for English Language Studies Graduate School, Division of Language and Culture Cultural and Temperamental Affect in Second Language Acquisition
Professional career (1):
  • Ph.D. (Waseda University)
Committee career (1):
  • 2012/06 - 現在 City of Minamikyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture Special Historical Advisory Committee
Association Membership(s) (3):
Association for Asian Studies ,  Naval Institute ,  Society for Military History
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