You are invited to the next research workshop of Global Asia Studies Research Center at Waseda University, which will be held on Monday, 13 May, at 16:30 to 18:00



Title: Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan



Speaker: Max Ward (Associate Professor of History, Middlebury College)



Event Description: In this workshop, Prof. Max Ward explores the development of the Japanese Peace Preservation Law (Chianijihō) from its initial passage in 1925 to suppress communism and anticolonial nationalism--what were soon categorized as "thought crime" (shisō hanzai)--to its expansion into an elaborate system to ideologically convert thousands of political criminals throughout the Japanese Empire. Drawing upon his new book Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power (Duke 2019), he proposes that we read the law not merely as a legal instrument to suppress political ideologies, but also as an archive of imperial state ideology and its dissemination in the 1930s and 1940s.



Language: English


Place: Waseda University Campus, Building 14, Room 960

1-104 Totsukamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8050, JAPAN


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Coordinators:

Naoyuki UMEMORI (Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics)

Yoshihiro NAKANO (Junior Researcher/Assistant Professor, ORIS)



About Us: The Global Asia Studies Research Center aims to contribute to the global interdisciplinary scholarship on reconciliation and sustainable development and to disseminate its results from Asia to the world. We pursue our research through the dual perspective of global history and global governance, integrating three spheres of knowledge: peace and security, economics and development, and society and culture.



Our official homepage: https://www.waseda.jp/global-asia/



We regularly hold research workshops in which scholars deliver presentations and engage in discussion with members of the audience. Presentations generally last about 45 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of discussion. These forums are open to scholars and members of the general public. All are welcome to attend, but please register in advance via e-mail (to Jeff Hall at jeffreyhall@aoni.waseda.jp ) so that we can prepare seating for participants.