 Description:
Starting with the question why, in spite of atomic bombing the majority of the Japanese are very friendly to Americans, while indifferent, if not hostile to Russians, this lecture traces the history of Japanese images of Russia examining them in relation to political context and national identity. The lecture is base on images understood in two meanings – as visual representations and mental construction of our mind.
 Objective:
Students will be encouraged to think critically and discuss how women's
writing on war may deconstruct the age-old story of war as men's business
and become an agent of change beyond discourse.
 Recommended Readings:
Yulia Mikhailova, M.William Steele (eds.), Japan and Russia. Three Centuries of Mutual Images. Folkestone: Global Oriental: 2008.
John Dower, War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific. Faber and Faber, 1986.
Handouts will be distributed.
Name:Yulia MIKHAILOVA
Present Post and Title: Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University.
Final Education:Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Ph.D. in history
Specialized Field: Modern Japanese History, Russo-Japanese Relations
Recent Publications:
*Yulia Mikhailova, M.William Steele (eds.), Japan and Russia. Three centuries of mutual images. Folkestone: Global Oriental: 2008.
*"Intellectuals, cartoons and nationalism," in Mark MacWilliams,
Japanese visual culture: explorations in the world of manga and anime. M.E. Sharpe, 2008.
*"Apocalypse in fantasy and reality: Japanese pop culture in contemporary
Russia," in William Tsutsui and Michiko Ito (eds.), In Godzilla's footsteps: Japanese pop culture icons on the global stage, Palgrave Macmillan: 2006.
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| I spent more than half of my life in the Soviet Union, the country which
collapsed in 1991- its major part is called Russia now. Somehow I became
interested in Japan and entered the Faculty of Asian and African Studies
of Leningrad State University. For nearly twenty years I did research on
modern Japan at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Leningrad and received
my Ph.D. in Moscow. However, because of the Cold War, I could not go and
see Japan with my own eyes. When the Cold War ended, I went as a Cannon
Foundation Fellow to Holland and Germany. Then I taught Japanese history
at Griffith University, Australia before moving to Hiroshima City University.
Here I teach Russian-Japanese relations and I am very much interested in
visual culture. |
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