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| {{Nihongo|'''Toshiyuki Tanaka'''|田中 利幸|Tanaka Toshiyuki|extra=born May 26, 1949}} is Japanese historian and political critic. | {{Nihongo|'''Toshiyuki Tanaka'''|田中 利幸|Tanaka Toshiyuki|extra=born May 26, 1949}} is Japanese historian and political critic. | ||
| Tanaka was ] Research Professor of History at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, ] before his retirement in 2015.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Faculty of Law conference |url=https://webapp1.law.cuhk.edu.hk/2016conference/1007/conf/programme.php |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=]}}</ref> He was a visiting professor at ], and the Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar at the Law School, ].<ref name=":0" /> | Dr. Toshiyuki Tanaka was ] Research Professor of History at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, ] before his retirement in 2015.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Faculty of Law conference |url=https://webapp1.law.cuhk.edu.hk/2016conference/1007/conf/programme.php |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=]}}</ref> He was a visiting professor at ], and the Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar at the Law School, ].<ref name=":0" /> | ||
| He is a coordinator of the journal "The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus" and a member of the SVAC (Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts) research project group funded by ].<ref name=":0" /> | He is a coordinator of the journal "The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus" and a member of the SVAC (Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts) research project group funded by ].<ref name=":0" /> | ||
| He has written extensively about ] under the ], history of ] during ], |
He has written extensively about ] under the ], history of ] during ], American ] cities as well as ].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Dr. Yuki Tanaka, Hiroshima Peace Institute “Crime and Responsibility: War, Indiscriminate Bombing, and Mass Killing” {{!}} The Center for East Asian Studies {{!}} The University of Chicago |url=https://ceas.uchicago.edu/Yuki |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=]}}</ref> He also writes about the ] and the ].<ref name=":1" /> He has spoken about the criminality of the atomic bombing at universities including the ] and the ].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> | ||
| ==Works== | ==Works== | ||
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Toshiyuki Tanaka (田中 利幸, Tanaka Toshiyuki, born May 26, 1949) is Japanese historian and political critic.
Dr. Toshiyuki Tanaka was Emeritus Research Professor of History at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University before his retirement in 2015. He was a visiting professor at Birkbeck, University of London, and the Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar at the Law School, University of Melbourne.
He is a coordinator of the journal "The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus" and a member of the SVAC (Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts) research project group funded by Hamburg Institute of Social Research.
He has written extensively about forced prostitution under the Japanese Empire, history of Japanese war crimes during World War II, American aerial bombing of Japanese cities as well as Japan under US military rule. He also writes about the laws of warfare and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He has spoken about the criminality of the atomic bombing at universities including the University of Chicago and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Works
- Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II, Westview Press (1996) ISBN 0-8133-2718-0
- Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the US Occupation, Routledge (2001) ISBN 0-415-19401-6
- (co-edited with Marilyn B. Young) Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth Century History, The New Press (2009) ISBN 1-59558-363-7
External links
- "Introducing Yuki TANAKA" Personal information in Japan Focus website
- "The Hibakusha Voice and the Future of the Anti-Nuclear Movement", lecture delivered on January 25, 2005
- "Japan admits war crimes conducted in WWII" Transcript of an interview with Prof. Tanaka on Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast August 28, 2002
- Yuki Tanaka on the Hiroshima peace movement (video) on YouTube
- A Proposal from Hiroshima, article by Yuki Tanaka in Digital Development Debates, July 2015.
- US Congressional Research Service's Report about Comfort Woman
- ^ "Faculty of Law conference". The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ^ "Dr. Yuki Tanaka, Hiroshima Peace Institute "Crime and Responsibility: War, Indiscriminate Bombing, and Mass Killing" | The Center for East Asian Studies | The University of Chicago". University of Chicago. Retrieved 2024-01-17.