Mordecai George Sheftall
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M.G.シェフタル博士 情報学部社会科・教授 M.G. Sheftall, PhD Professor of Culture and Communication Shizuoka
University Faculty of Informatics |
「歴史は大規模に現れている心理学」
“History is
psychology writ large”
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最終学歴 Degree Source |
早稲田大学アジア・太平洋研究科、2009年3月 Waseda University Graduate School of
Asia-Pacific Studies (dissertation title: “Kamikaze ethos: The rise, fall,
and revitalization of a modern Japanese hero-system”) |
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取得学位 Degree |
博士(国際学) PhD
(International Studies) |
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専門分野 Area of Research Specialty and Current Interest |
近現代日本史、メディア・スタディーズ、文化とコミュニケーション論（特に存在脅威管理理論の枠組みを通して文化の構造と役割を研究する） Modern
Japanese History (particularly: 1) the formation of modern Japanese national
identity; 2) Imperial Era militarism; 3) the effect of the Asia-Pacific War
on postwar Japanese national subjectivity; and 4) the war and postwar
national experiences in collective memory), Media Studies, Culture and
Communication Theory, Social Psychology (particularly relating to study of
the structure and function of culture in a Terror Management Theory
framework). From
AY 2012, I will be participating with the renowned historian Theodore Cook
and other leading scholars in the field of modern Japanese history on a
special Nichibunken (国際日本文化研究センター) team
researching the topic "War and Memory in the Shaping of Japanese Culture".
As Nichibunken is essentially a cultural policy
think tank administered by the Japanese government, it is conceivable that
the findings of our team will influence government policy on how the war
experience is taught to future generations of Japanese. I am honored and
quite excited to be invited to be a member of such a group. |
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近年の主な 研究業績 Recent Research Activities |
publications
(since 2002) “An ideological genealogy of Imperial Era Japanese militarism,” 50-65 in
McDonough, F. (ed.), The Origins of the
Second World War: An International Perspective (London, UK: Hambledon & London, 2011). “Inconvenient
heroes: Managed war memories in Occupation Era Japan”. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society (October 2010),
Vol.4, No.2, 86-102. “Forcing the favor of falsifiable gods: Kamikaze warfare as
rhetorical response to Imperial Japanese ontological crisis, 1944-45,” in Afflerbach, H. and Strachan, H.(eds.),
Why Fighting Ends: A History of
Surrender (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press) (in press). “Imperial
Way Faction,” 211-212 in Spackman, C. (ed.), An Encyclopedia of Japanese History (Charleston,
SC: Bibliobazaar, 2009). Kamikaze
Ethos: The Rise, Fall, and Revitalization of a Modern Japanese Hero-system (dissertation). (Tokyo: Graduate School of
Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, 2008). “Tokkō zaidan: a case study of Japanese war memorialization,” 54-77
in Saaler, S. & Schwentker,
W. (eds.), The Power of Memory in Modern Japan. (Folkestone,
UK: Global Oriental Press, 2008). “Japanese war veterans and kamikaze memorialization: Defeat remembrance
as revitalization movement,” 154-174 in Macleod, J. (ed.) Defeat and
Memory. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Tattōi gisei: The aesthetics of
“noble sacrifice” as discourse of re-masculinized national identity in
postwar Japan. Proceedings of International Workshop for Doctoral Students on
“Changing Faces of Nationalism in Asia,” 25-28 March 2007, Keiō University, 151-168. Tokyo: Global Security Research
Institute, Keiō University (2007). Japan Faces the 20th Century
(English language textbook for Japanese students in college level Comparative
Culture courses; co-authored with Masamichi Asama
and Michael Boyce) (Tokyo:
Eihōsha, 2007). Review of Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese student soldiers
(Emily Ohnuki-Tierney, Chicago: University of
Chicago, 2006), Social Science Journal Japan, Vol. 10, No. 1, 114-117. Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the
Kamikaze (New
York: NAL Caliber, 2005). (this title was the
Barnes and Noble History Book of the Month selection for July 2005, and a
History Book Club specially featured selection for August 2005). Old Culture, New Challenges.
(English language textbook for Japanese students in college level Comparative
Culture courses; co-authored with M. Asama)(Tokyo: Eihōsha, 2005). Review of Kamikaze, Cherry
Blossoms and Nationalisms (Emily Ohnuki-Tierney,
Chicago: University of Chicago, 2002) in Anthropological Science, Winter 2004, 278-280. “Seiyōjin kara
mita tokkō” (“The kamikaze concept from a Western
perspective”), 26-39 in M. Fukabori (ed.), Tokkō no Sōkatsu
(“Kamikaze: A final assessment”)
(Tokyo: Hara Shobo, 2004). RESEARCH
SUBMITTED AND IN PREPARATION
“Your bodies belong
to the Emperor: The marginizalization of masculine
corporeal autonomy under late war Japanese militarism,” paper to be submitted
for conference on “Marginalized Masculinity and Nationalism”, sponsored and
hosted by the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, March 15-17, 2012.
“War memoirs from
the shadows: Contested interpretations of the kamikaze in Occupied Japan,”
scheduled for July 2011 submission to Oxford University journal War in History. “Asian values debate”; “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”; “World
War II”; “Korean War”; “Vietnam War”. Commissioned articles in Patterson, O.
(ed.), Cultural
Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An Encyclopedia (Volume 3:
East Asia).
New York: Sage Publications (scheduled for 2012 publication). CONFERENCE
PAPERS AND PUBLIC LECTURES (since 2005)
“Shattered gods: The
unresolved cultural consequences of Japan’s post-1945 desymbolization crisis”
(paper presented at
Association of Asia Scholars/International Convention of Asian
Scholars, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 3, 2011). "Who
owns the memoirs of the dead?: Contested
interpretations of kamikaze pilot writings posthumously published in early
postwar Japan". (paper presented at “War
Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature”, a conference sponsored by
the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, November 22-24, 2010). “Tokkō: Japanese suicide tactics from a Terror Management
perspective” (invited lecture for the annual convention of the Japan Society of Social
Psychologists, co-lecturer with Terror Management Theory co-founder Tom Pyszczynski, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, September 18, 2011). “Komyunikeeshonn
ni okeru seikaku sa’i no kōzō to kinō (The structure and
function of temperamental difference in communication)” (Invited lecture
delivered for the faculty and fourth-year students of the Faculty of English
Education of Aichi University of Education, November 20, 2009). “The cycle of righteous violence: Forces
that increase and decrease support for war and terrorism” (Lecture by Dr. Tom
Pyszczynski of Colorado University [co-creator of
Terror Management Theory], Toyo University, Tokyo, October 3, 2009) (invited
discussant). “The
‘Divine Wind’ in bronze and stone: Japan’s Kamikaze Corps in postwar memorial
statuary and lieux de memoire, 1952-2005” (“Personality Cult in
Modern East Asia: Common Features of a Dividing Legacy,” Sixth International
Conference of Asian Scholars, Daejon, Korea, August
7, 2009). “Forcing the favor of falsifiable
gods: Kamikaze warfare as rhetorical response to Imperial Japanese
ontological crisis, 1944-45” (“Why Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender,”
International conference co-sponsored by Oxford University and the University
of Leeds, Leeds UK, June 28, 2009). (invited lecture/paper) “Kamikaze
memorialization as rhetorical activity” (Waseda
University Doctoral Student Network lecture series, International Student
Center, Waseda University, October 16, 2007).
(invited lecture) “Tattoi
gisei: the
aesthetics of “noble sacrifice” as discourse of re-masculinized national
identity in postwar Japan”
(Keio University Global Security Research Institute International Workshop
for Doctoral Students on “Changing Faces of Nationalism in Asia”, Mita Campus, March 27, 2007). “Conducting ethnographic field research on Japanese war
memorialization and veterans’ activities” (Anthropology of Japan in Japan
2006 Annual Conference, Meiji Gakuin University,
Tokyo, Japan, October 28, 2006).
“Kindai ‘bushidō’ no bunmyaku ni okeru
‘kamikaze’” (“Kamikaze in the context of modern ‘bushidō’”)
(21st Century Club [Hamamatsu City Junior Chamber of Commerce,
sponsored by Shizuoka Shimbun newspaper] 2005 Final
Lecture, November 21, 2005). “Once we were war gods:
Japan’s kamikaze survivors”
(conference “Defeat and Memory”, sponsored and hosted by Centre for Second
World War Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5,
2005). “Kamikaze
apotheosis: Yasukuni Shrine, popular media, politics and the tokkôtai (Special Attack Corps) legend” (Conference of
the European Association of Japanese Studies, Vienna, Austria, August 30,
2005). “Shūsen rokujū shūnen kinen
kōenkai: tokkō no kyōkun” (“60th Anniversary of the End of the
Asia-Pacific War Commemorative Lecture: Lessons of the kamikaze experience”)
(Chiryū Municipal Museum of History and Folklore, Chiryū City, Aichi Prefecture, August 6, 2005). |
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引用・報道 活動 Citations And Media Coverage |
PRINT Cited authority on Imperial Era Japanese ideology in Tillman, B. Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan,
1942-45 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010). Back cover comment author (as author of Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze) and multiply-cited
authority on kamikaze warfare in Gandt, R., Twilight Warriors (New York: Broadway,
2010). Multiply-cited authority on kamikaze warfare and modern Japanese military
culture in Tillman, B. “Kamikaze: The Divine Wind in retrospect,” Flight Journal (June 2009), 40-47. Back cover comment author (as author of Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze) and
multiply-cited authority on kamikaze warfare in Sears, D., At War With The Wind: The Epic Struggle
With Japan’s World War II Suicide Bombers (New York: Citadel, 2008). Cited authority on Second World War era media in Mair, M., Oil, Fire, and Fate;
The Sinking of the USS Mississinewa (AO-59) in WWII by
Japan's Secret Weapon (Plattesville, WI: SMJ Publishing, 2008). Cited authority on postwar Japanese historical revisionist activity in Fruhstuck, S., Uneasy Warriors:
Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army (Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 2007). Cited technical consultant in Tillman, B., LeMay (Great Generals Series) (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Book reviews for Blossoms In The
Wind in: Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Los Angeles Times, Far East
Asian Economic Review, Washington Post (for paperback edition), Augusta
Chronicle, Charleston Post & Courier, others. “In
The Face of Samurai Spirit”、JAPAN TIMES, August 14, 2005. “Japan’s
Veterans Bemoan Lack of US-style Respect”、JAPAN TIMES, August 9, 2005. “Kamikaze
Attacks: Flights of ‘Love’”、DAILY YOMIURI、July 17, 2005. “Sengo rokujū nen: tokkō no higeki (ge)” (“60 Years
After the End of the War: The Tragedy of the Kamikaze” (part two of two-part
series)), YOMIURI SHIMBUN, May 15, 2005. “Sensō wa gunjin no ninmu: moto tokkōtai’in daigakusei ni kataru” (“War was our duty as soldiers: former
kamikaze personnel speak to college students”), CHŪNICHI SHIMBUN, June 5,
2004. “The pull of memory”, 2004, Lehigh University website “News” section,
http://www3.lehigh.edu/News/news_story.asp?iNewsID=829. “Saburo Sakai Dead at 84; War Pilot Embraced Foes”, NEW
YORK TIMES, October 8, 2000. BROADCAST The Pacific. HBO Miniseries,
broadcast 2010 (uncredited technical advisor). History
Channel Dogfights, “Kamikaze,” (commentator
and technical advisor), originally broadcast July 2007 (this episode remains
in heavy internationally syndicated broadcast rotation). Shizuoka
Broadcasting Company Saturday Evening TV News, “9/11 tero to tokkōtai” (“9/11
Terrorism and Kamikaze”), September 10, 2005 (primary showcased commentator
and interview subject during approximately ten-minute segment). NHK
Shizuoka Evening News, “Amerikajin kara mita tokkō”
(“Kamikaze from the eyes of an American”), May 15, 2005 (approximately
eight-minute segment). NHK
National News, August 15, 2004 (approximately two-minute segment). NHK World News (English
language international satellite broadcast), broadcast several times in June
2004 (approximately eight-minute segment). Shizuoka Broadcasting Company
SBS Radio (AM), co-host of weekly half-hour English lesson/social commentary
program, 1994-2000. Numerous additional local
broadcast media appearances as educator and/or community volunteer,
1987-present. |
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職歴 Previous Employment |
常葉学園短期大学英語英文科 講師
4月1995年 〜 3月2001年 Tokoha Gakuen
Junior College, Lecturer April
1995-March 2001 |
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所属学会 Academic Societies |
Association
for Asian Studies, Society for Military History, Naval Institute |
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公的活動 Other Service |
非常勤講師,静岡文化芸術大学 Adjunct
Lecturer, Shizuoka University of Arts and Culture |
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コメント Comment |
共通研究興味を持っている方からのコンタクト・研究プロジェクト案・などがいつでも大歓迎です！ I
welcome correspondence with, and inquiries/project collaboration invitations
from, any researchers who share my research interests. |
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希望学生・ 大学院生へ Message
for Prospective
Undergraduate And
Graduate Students |
求む：学生！大学院生！ 下記のトピックについて勉強したい人を求めている。 ·
近現代日本史 ·
「存在脅威管理理論」を通しての文化の構造と役割の追究（要するに社会心理学を通して文化を追究） ·
メディア・スタディーズを通して近現代日本のアイデンティティー形成と将来を追究 上記に関する内容を勉強したい人の希望に喜んで応じて、英語でも日本語でも密度の高い高度な指導をします。質問をどうぞ、下記のメール・アドレスへ。 To
prospective undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in the
following study topics: ·
Modern
Japanese history ·
The
structure and function of cultures (through a Terror Management Theory framework,
i.e., the socio-psychological study of culture) ·
Research
on the formation and future of modern Japanese identity (cultural- and
socio-psychological framework and/or media studies framework) I
will use my knowledge base and expertise to provide you with a high level of
personal academic guidance – in English, Japanese, or bilingually – for a
rewarding program of study of these or related topics. Please feel free to
send inquiries about study/research opportunities to the mail address below
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