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（Last updated : 2023-07-22 21:51:25）

KOBAYASHI HASSALL YASUKO

Department / Course College of Global Liberal Arts Department of Global Liberal Arts

Title / Position Associate Professor

Academic background
1.	2001～2006	Doctorial Course │ Southeast Asian Studies │ College of Asia and the Pacific │ Australian National University │ Completed │ PhD Southeast Asian Studies (Area studies)
2.	1999/09～2001/08	Master Course │ Southeast Asian Studies │ Graduate School, Division of Regional Culture │ School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. │ Completed │ MA （Southeast Asian Studies) (Area studies)
3.	1997/04～1999/03	Doctorial Course │ Asian Studies │ Graduate School, Division of Regional Culture │ The University of Tokyo │ Accomplished credits for doctoral program
4.	1994/04～1996/03	Master Course │ アジア研究 │ Faculty of Modern Culture │ 東京女子大学 │ Completed MA (Area Studies) (Area studies)

Committee and society
1.	2021/01 ～	Advisor, International Logistics Strategy Team, Kinki Regional Development Bureau Port and Airport relation Affairs Division, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan
2.	2020/04 ～	Editorial Board Member, The Japanese Society of Western History Editorial Board Member, "The studies in Western history"
3.	2019/01 ～ 2021/01	Secretary General, Asian Association of World Historians Secretary General
4.	2018/04 ～ 2020/03	Advisory Board Member, the Asian Mobility Humanities Network (AMHN), Konkuk University Advisory Board Member
5.	2016/12 ～ 2018/12	Treasurer, Asian Association of World Historians Treasurer

Research activities
1.		Asian Association of World Historians
2.		Asian Studies Association of Australia
3.		Japan Association for Migration Policy Studies
4.		Australian Studies Association of Japan

Subject of research
1.	WWII in the Asia-Pacific: Border Crossing Mobilities
2.	Soldiers as mobile subjects: Japanese POWs Experiences through ATIS Interrogation Reports
3.	Comparative research on disaster prevention framework in a multicultural and multi-ethnic society and its application to Japan(Murata Science Foundation)

Research summary
I am a transnational social historian. My particular interest lies in transnational migration and mobilities occurring within the Asia and Pacific region, and social histories of those migrants. Her recent two books are (in English) Transpacific Visions Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South (2021, Lexington Books) and (in Japanese, with Katsuhiko Kuroda) A World History of Trade and Transportation (2021, SEIZANDO-SHOTEN PUBLISHING)『文明の物流史観』成山堂書店。

Present specialized field
Area Studies, History of Asia and Africa, History of international mobility and migration (Keyword：Transnational History (the Asia and Pacific Region) , History of Asia-Pacific Connections, Mobilities, Inter-Asia Migration, the Pacific War)

Books
1.	2022/09/30	Transportation Amid Pandemics:Lessons Learned from COVID-19 │ Historical Overview of Pandemics │ (Co-authored)
2.	2021/09/30	Transpacific Visions: Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South │ (Co-authored)
3.	2021/06/28	World History of Trade and Transportation │ (Co-authored)
4.	2021/05/25	Migrants and Islamophobia: Everyday multiculturalism to confront Islamophobia in Australia │ ,pp.308-326 (Co-authored)
5.	2020/03	Reflecting insights from literature studies in writing global social history. In Tsuboi, H. et al. eds. History and World Literature across Boundaries │ ,pp.pp.95-109 (Co-authored)
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Papers
1.	2023/05/19	World War II in the Asia-Pacific: Border Crossing Mobilities │ Asian Currents │ (Sole-authored)
2.	2023/03/28	Governance and the Provision of Roads and Mobility in Five Japanese ‘Societies’ │ Case Studies on Transport Policy │ 12 (Co-authored)
3.	2023/01/02	Book review: Four Years in a Red Coat: The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike. │ Australian Historical Studies │ 54 (1),pp.164-165 (Sole-authored)
4.	2022/03/08	Breaking the bias in Japan: The challenge of closing the gender gap │ Policy Forum │ (Sole-authored)
5.	2021	Invisible with ‘short-term lens’: understanding long-term recovery through the case of a Vietnamese Community in New Orleans, 15 years after Katrina (Special Issue on Exploring paradigm shifts in researching long-term disaster recovery) │ International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction │ (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/07/03	Discussant Remarks (The Interlacing of Japan and the World: Trans-Regional Migration and Mobility)
2.	2023/03/29	Discussant Remarks on Two Keynote Speeches by Dr Eric Sue & Prof. Koji Kanda (New Social Theory of Mobilities and Digital Revolution)
3.	2023/02/08	Life in the Meantime: A Case of Japanese POWs in Rabaul (Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War: History, Memory, and Forgetting Symposium)
4.	2023/02/08	Radical shift required: gender inequality in the Japanese university sector (Knowledge Exchange Workshop 2023, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre)
5.	2023/01/17	Discussant Remarks on Presentation: “Frames and counter-frames: seeing the Pacific with many eyes” (A Pacific intellectual history: modern imperialism, indigeneity, and ecological justice)
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2022/04/01 ～ 2023/03/31	Creation of the Transnational Organic Agriculture Movement in 20th Century East Asia │ Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Keyword：Transnational, East Asia,)
2.	2021/04/01 ～ 2024/03/31	The Asia-Pacific War and International War Mobility: Trans-national/regional history of War Evacuees from the Asian Region to Australia │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
3.	2018/04 ～ 2021/03	Soldiers as mobile subjects: Japanese POWs Experiences through ATIS Interrogation Reports │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)

Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2021/05/24 ～ 2021/08/31	WWII in the Asia-Pacific: Border Crossing Mobilities │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ ASAA 2021 Event Grant (Keyword：Asian-Pacific region, war mobilities)
2.	2019/08 ～ 2019/09	Australian National University & Ritsumeikan University Researcher's Exchange Program │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ Australian National University & Ritsumeikan University Researcher's Exchange Program
3.	2018/08 ～ 2019/12	Comparative research on disaster prevention framework in a multicultural and multi-ethnic society and its application to Japan │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ Research Grant
4.	2018/04 ～ 2020/03	Mobility Humanities based on the Co-Evolution of Human Being and Technologies: Worlding the Human-Mobility Societies in the Future │ Research by External Competitive Fund
5.	2017/08 ～ 2017/09	‘Japanese Soldiers Migrant Experiences – through the ATIS Interrogation Reports’ (Japanese Studies Program Grant) │ Research by External Competitive Fund
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Achievements of joint.Funded research
1.	2020/04 ～ 2023/03	Global Social History of Migration and Mobility: Interdisciplinary research on international migration and mobility at times of crisis │ Joint Research inside the organization │ Research Grant
2.	2017/01	Japanese Total War System, War Mobilisation and Migration: The Case of Comfort Women │ Other grants and subsidies │ Osaka University Early Career Researcher Conference Travel Subsidies
3.	2016/03 ～ 2016/03	Early Career Researcher Training Fellowship (funded by ARC Laureate Mentoring Scheme by ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow) │ Fellowship

E-Mail Address

Department laboratory expense researcher number
80793885

researchmap Researcher code
7000029383