Orr, vita, p.1. James J. Orr

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1 Orr, vita, p.1 James J. Orr Department of East Asian Studies 417 S. 21st Street Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA Lewisburg, PA USA USA office: (570) home: (570) fax: (570) homepage: Education: Ph.D M.A B.A History, Stanford University Major field--modern East Asia: Japan; Peter Duus, Advisor Supporting field--anthropology Research fellow: Waseda University Literature Faculty ( ) Kyoto University Law Faculty ( ) International Studies, University of Washington Field--East Asia: Japan Regional Studies Essay of Distinction: Nakasone Yasuhiro: A Nationalist Advocate in Postwar Japan Book Award in Japanese Studies. Economics, Yale University Academic Positions: Bucknell University, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies ( ), Assistant Professor ( ); Chair ( ; acting 2006/7, 2008/9) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Visiting Associate Professor ( ) Osaka University of Economics and Law, Visiting Lecturer, Associated Kyoto Program (AKP), Kyoto, Japan, Lecturer (1991, 1993); Visiting Faculty Fellow (2001) Konan-Illinois Program, Kobe, Japan, Lecturer (1992) Japan Center for Michigan Universities, Hikone, Japan, Lecturer (1992) Experiment in International Living, Tokyo, Japan, Lecturer ( ) YMCA English School, Hiroshima, Japan, Instructor ( ) Hiroshima Gakuin Jr./Sr. High School, Teacher ( ) Researcher, Connecticut Cancer Epidemiology Unit, New Haven, CT; Volunteer Teacher, Adult Basic Education, New Haven, CT. ( ) Peer-Reviewed Publications: Victims and Perpetrators in National Memory: Lessons from post-world War Two Japan. Revue suisse d histoire/swiss Historical Review (2007): The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan (2001). University of Hawaii Press. Yasui Kaoru: Citizen-Scholar in War and Peace. Japan Forum 12(1) (2000): War victim compensation campaigns of the 1960s: Suffering in service to the nation state. Social Science Japan Newsletter 17 (December 1999):

2 Orr, vita, p.2 Other Publications: "Japan's Hiroshima: The National Appropriation of Nuclear Bomb Victimhood," in Asada Sado, ed., The Atomic Bomb in Japanese and American Perspectives, forthcoming (in Japanese). Hibakusha Testimony as Oral History: Thoughts for Teachers (June 2010). On the About Japan: A Teacher s Resource on the Japan Society of New York website. Entries to Encyclopedia of Japanese Culture, Sandra Buckley, editor. Routledge, Entries on: peace and anti-nuclear movements; anti-nuclear power movements; Beheiren; Prostitution Law reform; right-wing movements; movement against police duties bill; teacher's rating system; and movements against revision of the constitution. Book Reviews: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II, by Yuma Totani. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, American Historical Review 115 (June 2010): The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations. ed. by Marc Gallicchio. Pacific Historical Review 78.3 (August 2009): Opinion and Comment Tsuyoshi Hasegawa response to Orr review, and Orr s reply. Journal of Japanese Studies 35.2 (Summer 2009): The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals, ed. by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2007, and Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism. Edited by James Maddox. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, Journal of Japanese Studies 32.2 (Summer 2008): War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, , by Franziska Seraphim. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, In American Historical Review (April 2008): The Making of the Rape of Nanjing History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States, by Takashi Yoshida. New York: Oxford University Press, In Pacific Affairs 80.2 (Summer 2007). Japanese Nationalisms, by Brian McVeigh. In Journal of Japanese Studies 31.2 (Summer 2005). Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought: The Evolution of the Concept of Jinkaku in Moral and Educational Discourse, by Kyoko Inoue. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, In American Historical Review CVIII.3 (June 2003). The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography. Edited by Joshua A. Fogel. Berkeley: University of California Press, In Journal of World History 14.3 (September 2003). Translations: Suzuki Chieko, Hundred Head Contest: Reassessing the Nanjing Massacre. Japan Focus e- journal. Yakushiji Katsuyuki, Japanese Foreign Policy in Light of the Iraq War. Japan Focus e-journal. Tsuneishi Kei-ichi, New Facts about U.S. Payoff to Japan s Biological Warfare Unit 731 Japan Focus e-journal. Muramatsu, Michio. "In Search of National Identity: The Politics and Policies of the Nakasone Administration," Journal of Japanese Studies vol. 13, no. 2 (Summer 1987): Research Interests and Projects: Interstices of intellectual, social, cultural, and political history of mid-20 th century Japan; post-wwii issues of national identity formation; pacifism and

3 Orr, vita, p.3 political subjectivity in postwar Japan; remembrance of war in East Asia, specifically in relation to the rhetoric of victimhood and national identity; post-wwii Japanese youth sports with focus on the masculinist mystique of baseball. Little League in Japan: A history of Little League in Japan Peace Maidens, Peace Matrons: A continuing study of ideologies of class, gender, and national identity in the Japanese peace movement as it relates to civic subjectivity and collective war remembrance. Yasui Kaoru and the Shôwa Experience: A book-length biographical project on this scholar activist whose career included participation in Konoe Fumimaro s prewar brain trust and leadership in the postwar grass-roots anti-nuclear peace movement. Hiroshima as Heritage: A series of essays exploring the evolution of Hiroshima as a political and cultural icon for Japanese pacifist nationalism. Web of Victimhood in East Asia: A comparative analysis of the role of victim rhetoric in remembrance of the Japanese colonial empire in Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea. Presentations at professional meetings: April 2014 May 2009 Peace Maidens, Peace Matrons: The Emergence of the Citizen Mother in 1950s Japan. Sophia University, Tokyo, Revisiting Postwar Japan as History Conference. January 2008 Peace Maidens, Peace Matrons: Gender and Political Subjectivity in Japan s Antinuclear Peace Movement. London School of Economics Cold War Studies Centre, Peace Movements in the Cold War and Beyond. April 2006 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) San Francisco. Hiroshima for Life, in the Roundtable/panel, More than a Mushroom Cloud: Teaching Hiroshima and Nagasaki March/April 2006 The Revenge of the Victims International Committee of the Red Cross/International Museum of the Red Cross, Geneva. Paper: Historical Construction of the War Victim in Postwar Japan. (Invited paper) September 2005 The Japanese Occupation: Sixty Years after the End of the Asia-Pacific War, Singapore. Paper: Peace and Honor in Postwar, Post-imperial Japan: Pensions and Enshrinement for Non-Japanese Veterans." April 2005 Symposium: Hiroshima/Nagasaki 2005: Memories and Visions, Tufts University, Boston. Roundtable discussion, Teaching Hiroshima/Nagasaki." January 2004 American Historical Association (AHA) meetings, Washington D.C. Death and Honor: Commemoration, Restitution, and Reward in Postwar, Post-imperial Japan. April 2003 Stanford University. Symposium in honor of Peter Duus. Yasui Kaoru: The Social Scientist as Religious Critic. (Invited paper) June 2001 Asian Studies Conference Japan. Yasui Kaoru, Juche, and the Integration of Science, Faith, and Politics. April 2001 Washington Japan Seminar, SAIS. Compensating Victims: The Politics of War Victimhood. November 2000 Workshop: Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Occupied Japan. University of Maryland. Paper: Peace Maidens, Peace Matrons. October 2000 Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS). Peace Maidens, Peace Matrons: Women and Constructions of Womanhood in Japan s Anti-Nuclear Peace Movement.

4 Orr, vita, p.4 May 2000 Japan Seminar, Columbia University. Yasui Kaoru: Juche, Nationalist Activism, and the Japanese Peace Movement. March 2000 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) meetings, San Diego. Organized panel, Know Thy Neighbor, Know Thyself: Imperialism, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Politics of Resistance in Japanese Studies of Korea. Paper presented, Power to the People: Juche and the Pacifist Scholar Yasui Kaoru. October 1999 Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS). War on Peace(able) People: Textbook Representations of the Japanese Ethnic Nation as Asian Victim in the Asia-Pacific War. March 1999 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) meetings, Boston. Yasui Kaoru: The Liberal Academic and His Past as War Collaborator. In the panel, Wartime Texts, Postwar Contexts. October 1998 New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS). Contours of the Discourse on War Responsibility in Postwar Japan. January 1998 American Historical Association (AHA) meetings, Seattle. Organized panel, Building Cultures for Peace and Democracy: Competing Visions for Postwar Japan. Paper presented, Hiroshima as Heritage: Creating a Pacifist Nationalism for Postwar Japan. Paper available in Proceedings of the American Historical Association, 1998 (University Microfilms, reference # 10485). Invited external lectures: August 2010 Japan Society of New York. Workshop on Japanese youth sports, teachers workshop. April 2010 Japan Society of New York. Moderator, Special program for students and schools Hiroshima A-Bomb Survivor Panel Discussion & Live Webcast. May 2008 Japan Society of New York. Japan s peace movements, success and failure In program with Tom Hayden regarding peace movements, Amy Goodman moderator. September 2007 Japan Society of New York. Why Sadako? In program, Memoirs of Sadako and Hiroshima: Personal Accounts of an A-Bomb Survivor. April 2003 Notre Dame University, History Department. Victims as Heroes and Martyrs. March 2002 Indiana University East Asian Colloquium. Peace Maidens, Peace Matrons: Gender and Subjectivity in the Japanese Ban-the-Bomb Movement. Service as discussant/chair at professional meetings: American Historical Association, Atlanta (2007). The Cultural Cold War in Postwar Japan Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS), Seton Hall University (2006). Lingering Memories of War American Historical Association, Philadelphia (2006). Music, Nation, Identity, and Conflict in China and the USSR American Historical Association, San Francisco. (2002). Memory, Race, and History: Life in Post-Imperial Japan. Conference on Globalization, Rikkyo University, Tokyo Japan (June 2001). Service as external referee:

5 Orr, vita, p.5 Journals: Journal of Japanese Studies, Peace and Change, History and Memory, Japan Focus/Asia-Pacific Journal (e-journal). Japan Forum (UK), Social Science Japan Journal, Critical Asian Studies, Asian Perspectives Publishers: Harvard University Press; Routledge/Curzon; University of Hawaii Press, Cambridge University Press Fellowships, grants, other awards: Bucknell University Dean s Travel Budget, International Research Travel Grant, Spring Bucknell University Dean s Travel Budget, International Research Travel Grant, May Bucknell University Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender (CSREG), May Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Associated Kyoto Program, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Spring 2006, declined. Bucknell University Common Learning Agenda Course Development Grant, Summer 2004 Bucknell University Curricular Development Grant, Summer 2003 Robert Wood Memorial Visiting Faculty Fellow, Associated Kyoto Program, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Autumn 2001 Rikkyo University Research Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan. Summer 2001 Bucknell University International Research Travel Grant, Race/Gender Resource Center Summer Research Grant. Summer 2000 University of Michigan, Visiting Scholar, Center for Japanese Studies. Winter/Spring 1998 AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Travel Grant: Educating a Peace-Loving People: Citizen and State in Postwar Textbook Narratives of War Bucknell University International Research Travel Grant Bucknell University Curricular Development Grant Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (research in Japan) Stanford University Department of History Graduate Student Fellowship University of Washington. Jackson School Japanese Studies Fellowship Courses: EAST 111: Introduction to East Asian Civilization (last taught 2008) EAST 254/HIST 295: Premodern Japanese History: From Shinto to Shogun EAST 255/HIST 296: Modern History of Japan EAST256/HIST297: Contemporary History of Japan (previously Japanese History through Sight and Sound ) Retired courses: CAPS : Hiroshima: Eros or Thanatos? (Senior seminar) FN 34 : Japan and World War Two in Asia and the Pacific (First-year seminar) FOUN Uncle Sam Needs Your Help Again (First-year seminar) EAST 240: Nations, Ethnicities, and Culture in Modern East Asia EAST 248: International Relations in East Asia EAST 257: Democracy in Japan (formerly Political Economy of Japan ) University service: Department Chair, East Asian Studies, , Acting Chair , , Fall 2012, Fall 2013 Board of Review on Academic Responsibility,

6 Orr, vita, p.6 Community Conduct Board, Judicial Review Board, Committee on Complementary Activities, (Faculty representative to the Board) Committee on International Education, (Chair ) Miller Honors Prize Selection Committee, 2003 Humanities Institute Advisory Council, Composition Council (approves W writing courses), Advisory Board on International Students, Multi-Cultural Center Advisory Board, Advisor, Japan Society, Advisor, Students for Asian Awareness at Bucknell (SAAB), Advisor, Vietnamese Student Association, Departmental Library Representative, , Professional service: Program Chair, Mid-Atlantic Region Association of Asian Studies (MARAAS) 2007 conference Japan Translation Project/Z-Net; Japan Focus associate, Associated Kyoto Program, Executive Committee Member, ; Board Member and Bucknell Campus Representative, , campus representative Institute for the International Education of Students (IES), Curriculum Committee, Institute of Asian Studies, Faculty Advisory Group for establishing Tokyo Program, 1996 Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT), Program Chair, Chûgoku Chapter, Memberships: Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, Languages: Japanese (full fluency); German (reading, speaking); Spanish (reading); French (partial reading) Personal: Spouse: Margaret G. Wismer, Ph.D. Research faculty, Bioacoustics Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Visiting Asst. Professor, Physics and Engineering Technology. Children: Joseph S., born 9/12/97 Margaret G., born 1/30/00 Bridget A., born 1/14/02