Updated on 2023/10/02

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INOUE, Fumi
 
Affiliation
Faculty of International Research and Education, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
Job title
Assistant Professor(without tenure)
Mail Address
メールアドレス

Research Experience

  • 2022.04
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    2023.03

    Ritsumeikan University   The Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of International Relations and Area Studies   Visiting research fellow

  • 2018.01
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    2018.08

    Waseda University   Faculty of Political Science and Economics   Research fellow

  • 2017.09
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    2018.08

    The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy   Graduate Fellow

  • 2017.02
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    2017.07

    Waseda University   Faculty of Political Science and Economics   Research fellow

Education Background

  • 2013.09
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    2021.05

    Boston College   Doctoral program in history, Department of History  

  • 2006.04
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    2010.03

    Waseda University   School of International Liberal Studies  

  • 2007.09
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    2008.05

    The University of Maryland, U.S.A.  

    Exchange program

Committee Memberships

  • 2017.05
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    2019.04

    The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations  Graduate Committee

Professional Memberships

  • 2022.05
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    Now

    The Japanese Association for American History

  • 2019.12
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    Now

    Japanese Association for Contemporaty Historical Studies

  • 2019.07
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    Now

    European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)

  • 2018.06
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    Now

    Peace Studies Association of Japan

  • 2016.09
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    Now

    The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

  • 2015.03
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    Now

    Association for Asian Studies

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Research Areas

  • History of Europe and America   U.S. diplomatic history / Japanese history   現代史 / Historical studies in general   The Okinawa-Japan-U.S. relationship

Research Interests

  • 沖縄・日本・アメリカ関係史

  • 日米関係史

  • グローバル・ヒストリー

  • Diplomatic history

  • Social history

  • Transnational history

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Awards

  • 特定課題研究助成費（アーリーキャリア支援）

    2023.04   早稲田大学  

  • 2022 Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects

    2022.09   Waseda University  

  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship

    2019.09   Boston College  

  • Manning-Gelfand Summer Research Fellowship

    2018.07   Boston College  

  • Graduate Fellowship, September 2017-May 2018 (Research Stipend)

    2017.09   The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College  

  • Summer Research Grant

    2017.07   Department of History, Boston College  

  • Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Travel Grant

    2017.01   The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations  

  • Summer Research Grant

    2016.07   Department of History, Boston College  

  • 2016 Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research Fellowship, May 24-27, 2016

    2016.05   The Woodrow Wilson Center, George Washington University  

  • Manning-Gelfand Summer Research Fellowship

    2014.07   Boston College  

  • 2014 Nuclear History Boot Camp fellowship, May 19-22, 2014

    2014.05   The Woodrow Wilson Center, The University of Rome Tre, and The Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, Italy  

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Media Coverage

  • Assisted research for the production of an NHK documentary「証言ドキュメント “沖縄返還史”」

    TV or radio program

    Author： Myself  

    NHK  

    2022.05

 

Papers

  • Japanese Solidarity with U.S.-Occupied Okinawa in the 1950s: Historical reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Reversion of Okinawa to Japan

    Fumi Inoue

    The Asia-Pacific Journal   20 ( 10 )  2022.05  [Refereed]  [Invited]  [International journal]

  • Higa Thomas Taro and World War II: Race, War Collaboration, and Okinawa

    Fumi Inoue

        20 - 32  2022.03  [Domestic journal]

  • Rethinking the Power of the Voiceless: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Birth of Popular Human Rights Activism in Occupied Okinawa

    Fumi Inoue

    The Voiced and Voiceless in Asia     235 - 261  2022  [Refereed]

    DOI

  • Thomas Taro Higa and Nisei Soldiers in the English-language Scholarship: A Historiographical Inquiry

    Fumi Inoue

       2021.05

  • The Politics of Extraterritoriality in Post-Occupation Japan and U.S.-Occupied Okinawa, 1952-1972

    Fumi Inoue

        1 - 388  2021.05  [Refereed]

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    This dissertation locates post-occupation Japan and U.S.-occupied Okinawa during the period between 1952 and 1972 within global and transnational histories of extraterritoriality. The subject of the historical inquiry is the politics surrounding the postwar U.S. policy of retaining extraterritorial jurisdiction over criminal cases involving its military personnel and locals in Japan and Okinawa. The primary objective is to historicize the U.S. Department of Defense’ seven-decades-long policy of maximizing national jurisdiction over its service members’ cases committed on foreign soil as well as contemporary Japanese attitudes toward ongoing public debates about Article 17 (criminal jurisdiction provision) of the 1960 Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement. Based on archival documents collected in Okinawa, Japan, and the United States, I demonstrate how the racialized notions of civilization rooted in nineteenth-century western—and particularly U.S.—supremacy drove the rationale for the postwar American military legal regime of exception and invoked varied reactions to it. This dissertation highlights vertical interactions between state policymaking and local/transnational grassroots responses in occupied Okinawa and post-occupation Japan in order to show how U.S. diplomacy manifested on the ground, and how it coped with various forms of resistance and made adjustments in response. Over the two decades beginning with Japan’s recovery of sovereignty in 1952 and ending with Okinawa’s reversion to Japan in 1972, the triangular relationship underwent a process of negotiation over each entity’s legal and political subjecthood. Japanese civil society mobilized a nationalist protest movement against the specter of postwar U.S. extraterritoriality in the immediate aftermath of the Allied occupation asserting the integrity of territorial sovereignty. The lingering tensions between U.S. exceptionalism and Japanese nationalism were defused in the late-1950s as the Eisenhower administration decided to reduce the colossal presence of U.S. armed forces on the Japanese archipelago. In U.S.-occupied Okinawa (1945-1972), the islanders’ resistance to “extraterritorial” military justice also generated popular fronts. Yet, in contrast to the Japanese resistance which by and large relied on the Euro-centric Westphalian principle of national sovereignty, Okinawans came to employ the egalitarian spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the mid-1950s to demand legal justice and proper compensation even under military rule. As most U.S. military bases in Japan were moved to tiny Okinawa resulting from Washington’s realignment of U.S. armed forces in Asia in the late 1950s and thereafter, Okinawans’ protest against U.S. military incidents evolved in parallel with their institutionalization of popular human rights activism, and the process invigorated the consolidation of political forces for reversion. My research finds that as Japanese, American, and Third World activists joined Okinawans in solidarity as they all protested the postwar American military legal regime of exception, a new meaning of “civilization” was born through collective appeals for the rule of law and universal human rights that had long-term consequences even as Okinawa was integrated into the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement in 1972.

Books and Other Publications

  • The Voiced and Voiceless in Asia

    ( Part： Contributor, Rethinking the Power of the Voiceless: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Birth of Popular Human Rights Activism in Occupied Okinawa)

    Palacký University Olomouc  2022  [Refereed]

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    Forthcoming

Presentations

  • Nationalism, Human Rights, and Reconciliation: The Specter of Extraterritoriality and the Philosophies of Resistance in Twentieth-century Okinawa and Japan

    Reconciliation Studies Summer School 

    Presentation date： 2023.08

  • 講和後日本「従属独立」に対する異議申し立ての原風景―日米行政協定第17条と帝国的主権をめぐるポリティックス

    井上 史

    早稲田大学アジア太平洋研究センター研究業績発表会 

    Presentation date： 2023.01

  • Historicizing the "Okinawa Problem:" An Inquiry into the 50th Anniversary of the Reversion of Okinawa to Japan

    Fumi Inoue

    Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geopolitical Perspective  The University of California, Santa Cruz

    Presentation date： 2022.03

  • The American Military Presence in Okinawa: Historicizing the Locals' Human Rights Activism and Struggles against the Japan-U.S. SOFA

    Fumi Inoue

    Presentation date： 2022.01

  • Thomas Taro Higa and World War II: Race, War Collaboration and Okinawa

    Fumi Inoue

    Presentation date： 2021.11

  • トーマス太郎研究の意義および課題の検討 英語圏の歴史研究との対話を通じて

    井上 史

    人間文化研究機構ネットワーク型基幹研究プロジェクト「北米における日本関連在外資料調査研究・活用―言語生活史研究に基づいた近現代の在外資料論の構築―」共同研究発表会（オンライン開催）  国立国語研究所

    Presentation date： 2021.06

  • The Postwar American Military Legal Regime of Exception

    Fumi Inoue

    Online Workshop: The Social Landscapes of American Military Bases 

    Presentation date： 2021.06

  • Connecting the Cold War Island and the Third World: The ‘Okinawa Problem’ and Japanese Lawyers’ Human Rights Activism in 1955

    Fumi Inoue

    The Virtual Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies 

    Presentation date： 2021.03

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    The Panel “Pacifism, Huma Rights, Popular Movement, and ‘History Activism’: The ‘Postwar’ as a Transnational Space”

  • Uneven Trajectories of the American Military Presence: Negotiating Violence, Civilization, and Resistance in Cold War Japan and Okinawa

    Fumi Inoue

    The Panel “Exporting Masculinity and Violence: Americans Abroad in the Twentieth Century," The 2020 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference (Online) 

    Presentation date： 2020.06

  • “Re-thinking 1955 U.S.-Occupied Okinawa: Crossings and Conjectures between Resistance to Extraterritoriality and Discourse on the Protection of Human Rights

    Fumi Inoue

    Presentation date： 2019.10

  • Re-narrating 1950s Okinawa: Military Extraterritoriality and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Fumi Inoue

    The 2019 European Association of Japanese Studies Conference (The Third EAJS Conference in Japan)  (Tsukuba University)  The European Association of Japanese Studies

    Presentation date： 2019.09

  • American Military Justice in Post-Occupation Japan and Occupied-Okinawa: Transpacific Debates on Postwar Extraterritoriality and the 1950s Base Politics

    Fumi Inoue

    The 2018 Association of Asian Studies New England Regional Conference  (Brandeis University) 

    Presentation date： 2018.10

  • 1950年代の沖縄および日本本土における米軍司法をめぐる議論―「由美子ちゃん事件」と「ジラード事件」にみる日米沖関係史

    井上 史

    大原社会問題研究所定例会  (法政大学) 

    Presentation date： 2018.07

  • The Making of the American Military Regime of Exception in Post-Occupation Japan

    Fumi Inoue

    The 2018 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference  (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)  The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

    Presentation date： 2018.06

  • American Military Justice in Postwar Japan, 1952-Present: The Specter of Extraterritoriality and the Contesting Visions of Sovereignty and National Security

    Fumi Inoue

    Okinawan Cultural Studies in Tokyo  (Waseda University) 

    Presentation date： 2018.03

  • Seeking Sovereignty and Finding Extraterritoriality: The Birth of American Military Justice in Postwar Japan

    Fumi Inoue

    (Boston College)  The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy

    Presentation date： 2017.12

  • The Yumiko-chan Incident: The 1955 Rape Murder of An Okinawan Girl that Triggered Okinawans’ Early Resistance to GI Crime

    Fumi Inoue

    The Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies  (Chicago)  Association for Asian Studies

    Presentation date： 2015.03

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Misc

  • Uniquely Okinawan: Determining Identity During the U.S. Wartime Occupation by Courtney A. Short (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020)

    Fumi Inoue

    The Journal of Military History   85 ( 1 ) 261 - 263  2021.01

    Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

  • “Public Debates about American Military Justice in 1950s Okinawa and Mainland Japan: Reflecting on the 1955 Yumiko-chan Case and the 1957 Girard Case through the Lens of Japan-U.S.-Okinawa Relations

    Fumi Inoue

    Journal of Ohara Institute for Social Research   ( 722 ) 108  2018.12

    Research paper, summary (national, other academic conference)  

  • Report for the 2017 Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Travel Grant

    Fumi Inoue

    Passport: The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Review   49 ( 1 ) 75  2018.04  [International journal]

    Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)  

 

Syllabus

Teaching Experience

  • Writing and Research Skills

    The Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University  

    2023.10
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    2024.01
     

  • Japan-U.S. Relations II

    Hosei University  

    2023.09
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    2024.01
     

  • Japan's Development Experiences in the International Context

    Waseda University  

    2023.04
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    2023.08
     

  • The Japan-U.S. Relationship I

    Hosei University  

    2023.04
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    2023.07
     

  • Graduate Seminar: Understanding Contemporary Japan

    The Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University  

    2022.11
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    2023.02
     

  • 総合講座 沖縄を考えるB

    法政大学沖縄文化研究所  

    2022.12
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  • Asia in the World II Discussion, Department of History (TA)

    Boston College  

    2019.01
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    2019.05
     

  • Asia in the World I Dicussion, Department of History (TA)

    Boston College  

    2018.09
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    2018.12
     

  • Atlantic World I Discussion, Department of History (TA)

    Boston College  

    2017.09
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    2017.12
     

  • Asia in the World II Discussion, Department of History (TA)

    Boston College  

    2016.01
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    2016.05
     

  • Asia in the World I Discussion, Department of History (TA)

    Boston College  

    2015.09
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    2015.12
     

  • Latin America in the World II Discussion, Department of History (TA)

    Boston College  

    2015.01
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    2015.05
     

  • Latin America in the World I Discussion, Department of History (TA)

    Boston College  

    2014.09
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    2014.12
     

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Sub-affiliation

  • Faculty of International Research and Education   Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies

Internal Special Research Projects

  • 米駐留軍に係る対沖／日刑事裁判権政策（日米地位協定第17条）をめぐる歴史学的研究

    2022  

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    本研究の目的は、戦後米軍対外刑事裁判権政策をめぐる政治力学のグローバル・ヒストリーを、同国の政策決定者と米軍統治下沖縄／ポスト占領下日本住民間の交渉史として、歴史学的実証にもとづき明らかにすることにある。中長期研究計画としては、現在、博士論文“The Politicsof Extraterritoriality in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa and Post-Occupation Japan,1952-1972” (Boston College, 2021) の成果をもとに、単著（日本語・英語）出版準備に取り組んでいる。本特定課題（2022年9月～2023年3月）をつうじては、とりわけ日本語・英語圏の文献調査に集中的に取り組み、日米関係史研究における本研究の位置づけを再検討した。研究成果の一部については、早稲田大学アジア太平洋研究センター研究業績発表会（2023年1月）にて発表した。