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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):
Papers (2):
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M.G. Sheftall. Review of Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces. Monumentica Nipponica Vol 73 No 1. 2018. 73. 1. 115-118
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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):
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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
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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):
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Japan's Demographic Revival
World Scientific Publishing 2016
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The Pacific War: Aftermaths, Remembrance and Culture
Routledge 2014
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How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender
Oxford University Press 2012
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The Origins of the Second World War
Hambledon & London 2011
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DEFEAT AND MEMORY
Palgrave Macmillan 2008
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Lectures and oral presentations (15):
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“Hiroshima Protests, Nagasaki Prays: Divergent Narratives in Early Postwar Atomic Bombing Memorialization Discourse”
(Asian Studies Conference Japan 2019 2019)
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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)
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Lecture on the significance of the kamikaze exhibit at the Battleship Missouri Museum
(Battleship Missouri Museum, Pearl Harbor, US 2015)
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"Narrative for Armageddon: Japanese establishment rhetoric during the final months of the Asia-Pacific War"
(Eighteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan 2014)
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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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