Officers, Adventurers and Statesmen: Reconsidering Militarism in
Twentieth Century Japan
June 18-20
18th|Sunday
Opening Ceremony
Beit Meiersdorf Banquet Hall
18:00
Greetings
Nissim Otmazgin, Chair of the Department of Asian Studies
and Acting Director, Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace
18:25
Artistic Program
Obon Dance, performed by Nanaka
and Aikido demonstration
19th|Monday
Abba Eban Hall, Truman Institute
09:30
Greetings & Introduction
Danny Orbach, Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Andrew Levidis, Cambridge University
10:00-12:00
Ideology, Mobilization and Total War
Chair & Commentator: Rotem Kowner, Haifa University
Naraoka Sochi, Kyoto University
The First World War and Japan: From Territorial Expansionism to International Cooperation
13:30-15:15
Manchurian Encounters: Militarism and the Nexus of Empires
Chair & Commentator: Yuri Pines, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Roger Brown, Saitama University
Conservative Nationalism in Japan on the Eve of War: Yasuoka Masahiro, Global Confrontation
Emer O'Dwyer, Oberlin College
A Fractured Civil Military Union: The Civil Bureaucracies and the Kwantung Army, 1934
15:45-17:30
Statesmen, Politicians and the Making of Japanese Militarism
Chair & Commentator: Ayala Klemperer-Markman, Tel Aviv University
Andrew Levidis, Cambridge University
After February 26, 1936: Prince Konoe Fumimaro and the Imperial Way Faction
18:00-19:00
Keynote Address
Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
Afterlives of Militarism and Imperial Democracy in Postwar Japan
20th|Tuesday
Abba Eban Hall, Truman Institute
10:00-12:00
Adventurers, Pirates & Medics: Military Encounters from the Ground Up
Chair & Commentator: Nissim Otmazgin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
13:15-14:45
Militarism Around the World: Comparative Perspectives
Chair & Commentator: Yagil Henkin, IDF Command and General Staff College
C. Christine Fair, Center for Peace and Security, Georgetown University
Carter Eckert, Harvard University
Imperial Redux: The South Korean Military from the Coup of February 26, 1936 to the Coup of May 16, 1961
15:15-18:00
The Spirits and Imprints of Militarism: Ideology, Culture and Memory
Chair & Commentator: Reut Harari, Tel Aviv University
Clinton Godart, Hokkaido University
Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Beit Berl College
Ury Eppstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Militarism in Japanese School Songs
18:30-19:00
Concluding Lecture
Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
Five Things You'd Want to Know in Explaining Japan's Surrender in 1945
19:15-19:45
Concluding Remarks
Danny Orbach, Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Andrew Levidis, Cambridge University
