CURRICULUM VITAE
Noriko Kawamura Department of History Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4030 Phone: (509) 335-5428 Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
June 1989 Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of Washington Major Fields: American diplomatic history, Japanese-American relations, modern Japan March 1982 Master of Arts in History, University of Washington Major Field: American diplomatic history March 1978 Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan Major Field: European history Dissertation: “Odd Associates in World War I: Japanese-American Relations, 1914-1918”
EXPERIENCE
Professor, Washington State University, Department of History, August 2019- Associate Professor, Washington State University, Department of History August 2000 to present Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Washington State University, Department of History August 1994 to June 2000 Assistant Professor, non-tenure-track, Washington State University, Department of History August 1992 to May 1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Department of History June 1992 to August 1992 Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Virginia Military Institute, Department of History and Politics August 1989 to May 1992
PUBLICATIONS
Books
(Emperor Hirohito’s Cold War. Seattle: University of Washington Press, forthcoming in 2022.)
Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. (Paperback 2017)
Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations during World War I. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.
Building New Pathways to Peace. Co-edited with Yoichiro Murakami and Shin Chiba. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
Toward a Peaceable Future: Redefining Peace, Security and Kyosei from a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Co-edited with, Yoichiro Murakami and Shin Chiba. Pullman: The Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service, Washington State University Press, 2005.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Naval Powers in the Pacific at the Crossroads.” In Evan Dawley and Tosh Minohara, eds., Beyond Versailles: Reverberations of the “1919 Moment” in Asia. Lanham: Lexington Books, forthcoming in 2020.
“To Transnationalize War Memory for Peace and Kyosei: Reconciliation of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.” In Noriko Kawamura, Yoichiro Murakami, and Shin Chiba, eds., Building New Pathways to Peace. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
“In Search of Peace and Kyosei: A Historical Perspective on the Reconciliation of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.” In Takako Ueta and Hajime Machino, eds., An Introduction to a Grand Theory of Peace. Tokyo: Fuko-sha, 2007. (In Japanese)
“Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s Decision to Go to War with the United States: Reexamined.” Diplomatic History 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 51-79.
“War Memory and Peace: A Historian’s Case Study of the Myths of Japan’s Surrender.” In Yoichiro Murakami, Noriko Kawamura and Shin Chiba, eds., Toward a Peaceable Future: Redefining Peace, Security and Kyosei from a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Pullman: The Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service, Washington State University Press, 2005.
“Wilsonian Idealism and Japanese Claims at the Paris Peace Conference.” Pacific Historical Review 66, no. 4 (November 1997): 503-526. Reprint in Arthur P. Dudden, ed., American Empire in the Pacific: From Trade to Strategic Balance, 1700-1922. Aldershot, UK and Burlington US: Ashgate, 2004.
“Minister Paul S. Reinsch.” In Cathal J. Nolan, ed., Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Entries for James I. Matray, ed., East Asia and the United States: An Encyclopedia of Relations Since 1784. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. “Four Power Pact” “Fukuzawa Yukichi” “Hara Takashi” “Hirohito” “Ishii Kikujiro” “Kido Koichi” “Makino Nobuaki” “Saionji Kinmochi” “Twenty-one Demands” “Versailles Peace Treaty”
BOOK REVIEWS
Paul J. Heer. Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia. In Pacific Historical Review, 88 (Summer 2019).
Tosh Minohara. Amerika no hainichi undo to nichibei kankei (The anti-Japanese movement in America and US-Japan Relations): hainichi iminho wa naze seiritsushitaka (The reason behind the Japanese Exclusion Act). In Pacific Affairs, 90 (September 2017).
Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki Hon, and Evan Dawley, eds. The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s. In The Journal of Military History, 81 (January 2017).
William Michael Morgan. Pacific Gibraltar: U.S.-Japanese Rivalry Over the Annexation of Hawai’i, 1885-1898. In Pacific Historical Review, 82 (February 2013).
Thomas W. Burkman. Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914-1938. In Pacific Historical Review, 78 (May 2009).
Edward S. Miller. Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor. In H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by [email protected] (October 2008). http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=22899
En Kokukin. Amerika to Nikka Kowa (America and the Japan-Taiwan peace treaty). In The Journal of American History, (September 2004).
Tomoko Akami. Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919-1945. In American Historical Review, 108 (April 2003).
Carol Wilcox Melton. Between War and Peace: Woodrow Wilson and the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, 1918-1921. In The Journal of Military History 66 (July 2002).
A. Hamish Ion. The Cross in the Dark Valley: The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1931-1945. In Pacific Historical Review, 70 (May 2001).
Akira Iriye and Warren Cohen, eds. American, Chinese, and Japanese Perspectives on Wartime Asia, 1931-1949. In The Journal of Military History 55(July 1991).
Arthur S. Link et al., eds. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vols. 59-60. In Presidential Studies Quarterly 21 (Winter 1991). Article review
Seung-Young Kim. “Open Door or Sphere of Influence?: The Diplomacy of Japanese-French Entente and Fukien Question, 1905-1907,” The International History Review 40:1 (2019): 105-129. In [email protected], 29 November 2019 https://issforum.org/reviews/PDF/AR904.pdf
Peter Mauch. “Hirohito and General Douglas MacArthur: The First Meeting as Documented by Shōwa tennō jitsuroku,” Diplomacy & Statecraft 28:4 (December 2017): 585-600. In H- [email protected], September 2018. https://issforum.org/reviews/PDF/AR797.pdf
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
“World War I from Global Perspective,” presented in the teachers’ workshop in Seattle, Washington, hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, February 22, 2020
“A Historical Inquiry into Neighborliness and the Shifting Boundaries Surrounding Japan,” presented in the 2019 Annual Conference of the Max Weber Foundation, “Neighborliness in Global Perspective,” Cairo, Egypt, December 12-14, 2019
“World War I from Global Perspective,” presented in the teachers’ workshop in Helena, Montana, hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, November 16, 2019
A series of lectures and a roundtable on World War II in the Pacific, Ponant Cruise “In the Wake of General MacArthur: The Legacy of World War II,” September 27-October 10, 2019.
“Historical Memory of Heroes and Villains on Japan’s Longest Day,” Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, July 1-2, 2019
“World War I,” presented in the teachers’ workshop in Portland, OR, hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, October 24, 2018
“Emperor Hirohito and the Cold War in Asia,” presented in “Monarchy and Sovereignty Twentieth-Century Asia: A Symposium,” Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, April 13, 2018
"Post-World War I Search for an Order in the Pacific: Reexamination of the Versailles- Washington Treaty System,” presented in the conference "Settlement and Unsettlement: The Ends of World War I and Their Legacies" organized by German Historical Institute, and the National History Center of the AHA in Washington D.C., March 22-24, 2018
A series of lectures and a roundtable on World War II in the Pacific, Ponant Cruise “Gems of South-East Asia,” October 1-16, 2017
“Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations during World War I,” the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, Chicago, Illinois, March 7, 2017 https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/noriko-kawamura- turbulence-pacic/
“Emperor Hirohito from the Pacific War to the Cold War,” presented at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan, December 8, 2016
“My Approach to Japan Studies as a Diplomatic Historian,” presented at International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, December 15, 2008
“Emperor Hirohito’s ‘Sacred’ Decision to End the Pacific War” presented in Studium Generale program at Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Washington, February 14, 2008
“Peace and Kyōsei: A Historical Perspective on the Reconciliation of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima” presented in the International Symposium on “Toward the New Understanding of Peace, Security, and Conviviality,” International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, October 28, 2006
“The Legacy of the Atomic Bomb in American History,” presented in the American Studies Conference on “The United States in Times of War and Peace,” Yunnan University, Kunming, China, June 1-3, 2005
PAPERS (and Roundtable)
“Emperor Hirohito and the National Polity from Japan’s Surrender to the U.S. Occupation,” presented at the Asian Studies Conference Japan, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan, June 29-30, 2019
Roundtable presentation: “The 1919 Moment in East Asia: New Perspectives at the Centennial,” the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 4, 2019.
“Emperor Hirohito in the Early Years of the Cold War,” presented at the Annual Conference of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, June 8-10, 2018
“Historical Memory of Heroes and Villains on Japan’s Longest Day,” presented at the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, July 8-9, 2017
“Emperor Hirohito’s Initial Seven Months under U.S. Occupation,” presented in the Annual Conference of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, California State University Northridge, June 10-12, 2016
“World War II Origins of the U.S. Military Bases in the West Pacific,” presented in the Annual Conference of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the University of the Pacific, June 5-7, 2015
“General Anami Korechika: Villain or Tragic Hero?” presented in the Annual Conference of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, June 20-22, 2014
“The End of the Myth of Imperial Rule,” presented in the Annual Conference of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, June 7-9, 2013
“Between Headship and Harmony: Emperor Hirohito in the New Order in East Asia,” presented in the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, March 21-24, 2013
“Emperor Hirohito and the Aftermath of the Paris Peace Conference,” presented in the Annual Conference of the Associations for Asian Studies, the Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, March 31-April 3, 2011
“Emperor Hirohito’s Sacred Decision to Surrender,” presented in the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of U.S. Foreign Relations, Ohio State University, Columbus, June 27-29, 2008
“Emperor Hirohito and the Aftermath of the Paris Peace Conference,” presented in the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Annual Conference, University of Victoria, British Columbia, June 20-22, 2008
“The Myth and Reality of Emperor Hirohito’s ‘Sacred Decision’ to End the Pacific War” presented in the Pacific Coast Branch American Historical Association Annual Conference, East-West Center, University of Hawaii Manoa, July 24-26, 2007
“The Myth of Emperor Hirohito’s Role in Japan’s Decision to Surrender,” presented in the Pacific Coast Branch American Historical Association Annual Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, August 5, 2006
“Japan’s Decision to Surrender: Testimonies Reexamined,” presented in the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, June 17-19, 2005
“The Myth of the Showa Emperor’s ‘Divine Intervention’ and the Lost Peace,” presented in the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, June 18- 19, 2004
“Ambivalent Loyalty: The Army Officers’ Attitudes toward the Emperor on the Eve of Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor,” presented in the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, East-West Center, University of Hawaii Manoa, June 19-22, 2003
“The Showa Emperor and the Tojo Cabinet’s Decision to Go to War with the United States,” presented in the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, September 26-28, 2002
“The Showa Emperor and Japan’s Decision to Go to War with the United States,” presented in the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, June 21-23, 2002
“Recent Japanese Scholarship on the Showa Emperor and the Asia-Pacific War” presented in the annual conference for the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Park City, Utah, August 3-6, 2000
“Recent Japanese Scholarship on the Showa Emperor and the Pacific War” presented to the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Boise State University, September 17-18, 1999
The Terauchi Cabinet’s Policy of Sino-Japanese Cooperation: An Attempt to Establish Japan’s Supremacy in China during World War I” presented to the New York Conference on Asian Studies, State University of New York at New Paltz, October 16-17, 1998
“President Wilson and Japan’s Decision to Intervene in Siberia” presented in the National Policy History Conference, Bowling Green State University, June 6-8, 1997
“Wilsonian Idealism and Japanese Claims at the Paris Peace Conference” presented in the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, University of Colorado, June 21-24, 1996
“The Atomic Bomb and the End of the Pacific War: the Japanese Perspective Fifty Years Later” presented in the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Lewiston, September 29-30, 1995
WORK IN PROGRESS
Book manuscript: Emperor Hirohito’s Cold War. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Forthcoming in 2022.
Book chapter manuscript: “A Historical Inquiry into Neighborliness Inside and Outside: A Case study of Japan,” in the Max Weber Foundation, ed., “Neighborliness in Global Perspective (working title).
TEACHING Courses taught at Washington State University
Graduate courses HIST 510 Field Course in American History: U.S. Foreign Relations HIST 510 Field Course in American History: The United States and the World HIST 525 Seminar in American History HIST 578 Field Course in Asian History: Modern Japan HIST 571 Topics in World History: The United States and the World
Conjoint courses for both undergraduate and graduate students HIST 411/511 American Diplomatic History from 1776 to 1914 HIST 412/512 American Diplomatic History in the Twentieth Century HIST/ASIA [M] 477/577 Modern Japanese History
Undergraduate courses HIST 105 Roots of Contemporary Issues GENED 110 World Civilizations I (to 1500) GENED 111 World Civilizations II (since 1500) HIST/ASIA 275 Introduction to East Asian Cultures HIST/ASIA 374 Japanese Civilization HIST/ASIA 387 World War II in Asia and the Pacific HIST 390 US Military History HIST 466 The History of the Cold War HIST 469 [M] Seminar in History: “The Road to Pearl Harbor”; “From Manchuria to Hiroshima”; “World War II in the Pacific” UH 330 (Honors) Western Civilizations UH 350 (Honors) Eastern Civilizations
2. Work with Individual Graduate Students (who completed degrees)
Chair: MA thesis Jason Knirck 1994-1996 Kirill Yurov 1994-1996 Sam Lee 1994-1997 Paul Dean 2002-2004 Jason Blazevic 2004-2006 Hilary Elmendorf (American Studies) 2002-2004 Jon Flashnick 2003-2005 Christina Balam 2003-2005 Kristofer Caleb Sparks 2004-2006 Lindsay Bell 2005-2007 Marie Reed 2005-2007 Lindsay Thompson 2006-2008 James Schroeder 2017-2019 Adam LaPorte (2019-continuing)
Chair: MA non-thesis Michael Depa 2007-2009
Chair: PhD dissertation Douglas Habbib 1996-2003 Paul Dean 2004-2011 Hilary Elmendorf 2004-2010 Howard Munson 2007-2012 Philip Travis 2009-2013 James Schroeder (2019-continuing)
Committee: MA thesis Gary Benefiel 1992-1993 Norihito Mizuno 1992-1994 Mee-Ae Kim 1993-1995 Gregory Strong 1995-1997 Deborah Coy 1996-1998 Nancy Lust 1999-2004 Akihiro Mizukawa (American Studies) 1999-2001 Toshiharu Imai (Political Science) 2001-2003 James Covey 2004-2006 Cynthia Ross 2004-2006 Nyssa Runyan 2013-2015 Chris Halderman 2018-2020 Mario Vega (2019-continuing) Qianni Shen (2019-continuing)
Committee: MA non-thesis Alison Canfield 1997-1999 Shuko Nagatsuka (American Studies) 2002-2004 Jaime Ramirez 2005-2007 Dallin Walton (Political Science) 2014-2016 Brett Turner 2017-2019
Committee: PhD dissertation Sun Yi 1992-1994 Frank Hill 1994-1996 Zhou Baodi 1995-1999 Mee-Ae Kim 1995-2000 Jerry Garcia 1995-1999 Neil O’Brien 1996-2000 Michael Brown 1998-2002 Dane Netherton 1997-2004 Asako Stone (Psychology) 2004-2005 Birgit Schiermer 2005-2010 Sikang Song 2015-2017
SERVICE
University
Graduate Student Travel Grant Committee, 2002-2007, 2009-2010 Search Committee for Associate Vice Provost for International Programs, 2004-2005 Ad hoc Committee on Study Abroad (report to the Vice Provost of Academic Affairs), 2004 Advisory Council for International Affairs, 2003-2005 Faculty Senate Library Committee, 2002-2005 Admissions Subcommittee of the Academic Affairs Committee, 1999-2001
College of Arts and Sciences
Strategic Planning Committee, August 2014-2016 Strategic Planning Committee’s Subcommittee for Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Spring 2015 Director, ICU-WSU Peace and Security Research Partnership, August 2005-2011 Associate Director, ICU-WSU Peace and Security Research Partnership, 2003-2005 Director, Asia Program, August 2002-2005 College of Liberal Arts Publications/Web Committee, 2001
Department
Chair, Development Committee, 2019 to present Chair, Awards Committee, 2017-2019 U.S. History Examination Committee, 1999-2001 (chair 2000-2001), 2017-2019 Development Committee, 2015-2016 Graduate Studies Committee, 2013-2014 Director of Graduate Studies, 2009-2013 Ad hoc Committee on Budget 2010-2011 Ad hoc Committee on Course Sharing 2011 Chair, Search Committee, Modern Japanese History, 2009-2010 Search Committee, U.S. History since 1920, 2007-2008 Graduate Studies Committee, Spring 2007 Planning Committee, Spring 2007 Search Committee, American West, 2006-2007 Search Committee, South Asian History, 2004-2005 Committee for Undergraduate Curriculum and Instruction, 1994-2001 Search Committee, Public History and the Gilded Age, 1997 Curriculum Review Subcommittee: Undergraduate Lower-Division Courses, 1997 World History Committee, 1993-1994
Other Service at WSU Faculty Adviser, Japan Club (ASWSU recognized student organization), 1994-2016 Program Chair, Washington State University Association for Faculty Women, 2000-2001
Professional Service outside WSU
Editorial Advisory Board, Studies in Pacific Worlds, University of Nebraska Press, 2015 to present Board member (Immediate Past President), The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the Association for Asian Studies, 2017-2019 President, The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the Association for Asian Studies, 2015-2017 Vice President (President-elect): The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the Association for Asia Studies, 2013-2015 Board member: The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the Association for Asian Studies, 2012- 2014 Council member: Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, August 2005-2008 Program Committee: Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch American Historical Association, 2007-2008 Chair: The Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the Association for Asian Studies, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, June 16-18, 2006 Nominating Committee: The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the Association for the Asian Studies, 2006-2007 Board member: The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the Association for Asian Studies, 2003- 2005
Referee Service
Harvard University Press University of Washington Press Greenwood Publisher Diplomatic History The Journal of American History The Journal of American-East Asian Relations Pacific Historical Review The Journal of Military History
Tenure and promotion review for the History Department, University of Idaho
Public Service
Newspaper interview “Japan Has a New Emperor for the First Time in 30 Years,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2019. https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-emperor-akihito-abdicates-20190430- story.html
Newspaper interview on the Japanese Imperial Family, Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil, April 30, 2019 https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2019/04/novo-imperador-do-japao-deve-seguir-linha- proxima-ao-povo.shtml
Op-Ed article, “Japan’s Reiwa Era Maybe Less Than Harmonious,” East Asia Forum, April 28, 2019 https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/04/28/japans-reiwa-era-may-be-less-than- harmonious/#more-180300
Radio interview on “British Documents about Emperor Hirohito Released” in ABS NewsRadio—Japan in Focus, July 24, 2017 http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/content/s4706760.htm
Interview, “Slow But Steady Escalation of Invisible Conflicts,” The United States World War One Centennial Commission, March 2017 https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi- centennial-news/2019-three-questions-for-dr-noriko-kawamura.html
Radio interview in “Watch the Throne: America and Royalty,” in “BackStory with the American History Guys: A program of Virginian Foundation for the Humanities” on March 13, 2016. http://backstoryradio.org/shows/watch-the-throne/
Newspaper interview on the Japanese imperial family, The Los Angeles Times, August 8, 2016 http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-akihito-speech-20160808-snap-story.html
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Arnold M. and Atsuko Craft Professorship, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington State University, 2018-2021 Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington State University, 2017 Outstanding Achievement in International Activities, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington State University, 2016 Edward R. Meyer Project Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington State University, 2016 Internationalization Mini-Grant, International Programs, Washington State University, 2005 Initiation and Completion Grant, College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University, 2004 Initiation of Collaboration Grant, Research Grant Office, Washington State University, 2004 Internationalization Mini-Grant, International Programs, Washington State University, 2002 Arts and Humanities Faculty Travel Grant, Washington State University, 2001 Internationalization Mini-Grant, International Programs, Washington State University, 2001 Short-Term Travel Grant to Japan, the Northeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies, 2001 Arts and Humanities Faculty Travel Grant, Washington State University, 2000 Summer Research Grant, Virginia Military Institute, 1990 Lockwood Fellowship, Department of History, University of Washington, 1985-1986 Schwartz Scholarship, University of Washington, 1983-1984 Graduate Tuition Scholarship for the Outstanding Student, Department of History, University of Washington, 1982-1984
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Historical Association Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Association for Asian Studies Japan Association of International Relations