Social Sciences
- Japan World Heritage Island
Island of Horror: Gunkanjima and Japan?s Quest for UNESCO World Heritage Statusby Mark Siemons, Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungIntroduction by William Underwood, Independent ScholarFirst appeared in JapanFocus, June 22, 2015Seventy years after the...
- Chinese Comfort Women
Click to order bookAmong the thousands of girls, women, and boys swept up in Imperial Japan's Comfort Women system were Chinese. Some were part of expropriated brothels, some trafficked by brokers who paid their parent's debts, but most were victims...
- Mike Mochizuki In Australia
On the RocksJapan-China Tensions and the East China Seawith Professor Mike MochizukiGeorge Washington University 31 May 2013 4:30-5:30pm Japan InstituteAustralian National UniversityLecture theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (Bldg #130)corner of Liversidge...
- Bi-coastal Programs On Japan's Tsunami
Japan's Aftermath An Initial Assessment of the Nuclear Disaster in Japan Wednesday, March 166:00 pmInstitute of East Asian Studies Conference Room2223 Fulton Street, 6th FloorUniversity of California, BerkeleyCalifornia Roundtable Discussion...
- Only After 65 Years
APP advises members of congress and members of the Washington policy community on issues where Japan's war history intersects with current efforts to establish a successful East Asian regional security strategy. Last week Representative Mike...
Social Sciences
Japan's Corporate Responsibilities
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies and Asia Policy Point Cordially Invite You To:
Japan's Corporate Responsibilities for
Wartime Forced Labor: Research and Response
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
3:30-5:00 PM
William Underwood
Independent Scholar
3:30-5:00 PM
William Underwood
Independent Scholar
Dr. William Underwood's doctoral research analyzed the origins and development of the reparations movement for Chinese forced labor in Japan during World War Two, while locating ongoing redress efforts within the emerging global trend toward repairing historical injustices. He directly observed forced labor reparations work involving Chinese, Korean and Allied POW victims at the grassroots level in Fukuoka from 2002 until 2008, when he returned to California. Since 2005 Mr. Underwood has served as a coordinator for The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, a peer-reviewed open source journal available at www.japanfocus.org . Dr. Underwood received his Ph.D. in political science from Kyushu University while teaching at Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University and Kurume Institute of Technology as well as two years in Aomori for the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. He received an M.A. in Government from California State University, Sacramento, where his thesis examined the Japanese American redress movement. He also has a B.A. in Government-Journalism from CSUS. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer, and as a Japanese-English technical translator in the semiconductor industry.
The Chung-wen Shih Conference Room
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503
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- Japan World Heritage Island
Island of Horror: Gunkanjima and Japan?s Quest for UNESCO World Heritage Statusby Mark Siemons, Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungIntroduction by William Underwood, Independent ScholarFirst appeared in JapanFocus, June 22, 2015Seventy years after the...
- Chinese Comfort Women
Click to order bookAmong the thousands of girls, women, and boys swept up in Imperial Japan's Comfort Women system were Chinese. Some were part of expropriated brothels, some trafficked by brokers who paid their parent's debts, but most were victims...
- Mike Mochizuki In Australia
On the RocksJapan-China Tensions and the East China Seawith Professor Mike MochizukiGeorge Washington University 31 May 2013 4:30-5:30pm Japan InstituteAustralian National UniversityLecture theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (Bldg #130)corner of Liversidge...
- Bi-coastal Programs On Japan's Tsunami
Japan's Aftermath An Initial Assessment of the Nuclear Disaster in Japan Wednesday, March 166:00 pmInstitute of East Asian Studies Conference Room2223 Fulton Street, 6th FloorUniversity of California, BerkeleyCalifornia Roundtable Discussion...
- Only After 65 Years
APP advises members of congress and members of the Washington policy community on issues where Japan's war history intersects with current efforts to establish a successful East Asian regional security strategy. Last week Representative Mike...