I am an Associate Professor in history of medicine at Senshu University. my work is focused on community medicine and community responses to state policies in the 19th and the first half of the twentieth century Japan. I'm the author of Kindai Nihon no Hansen-byo Mondai to Chiiki Shakai (Modern Japan's Hansen's Disease Problem and Local Communities, 2011), and the co-translator of Ann Jannetta's Vaccinators (2007) into Japanese. I also study the archival science theory based on medical materials.
Japanese Journal of Leprosy 86(2) 135-139 Dec 2017 [Invited]
<p> This paper explores the current status of preserving medical/patient records in Japan and providing them for public use, focusing in particular on issues relating to the medical records preserved in Hansen's disease sanitaria, as per Japan's ...
The Meiji Restoration and Its Afterlives: Social Change and the Politics of Commemoration 15 Sep 2017 Yale University Council on East Asian Studies
The Struggle to Modernize Community Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Waka HIROKAWA
Association for Asian Studies 2017 Annual Conference 19 Mar 2017 Association for Asian Studies
The Executioner’s Medicine: The Traffic of Body Parts in the City of Edo[Invited]
Waka HIROKAWA
History of Medicine in East Asia 16 Jul 2016
Toward the Modernization of Acquiring Knowledge: Flexible Boundaries of a Medical Educational System in the Late Tokugawa Osaka
Waka HIROKAWA
The Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) 2 Jul 2016
The Introduction of Epidemiological Survey Methods for the Study of Hansen’s Disease in Japan in the 1930s
Waka HIROKAWA
International Health Organizations (IHOs): People, Politics and Practice in Historical Perspective 21 Apr 2016
Entering the Era of Reconciliation: A Contemporary History of Former Hansen's Disease Patients in Japan[Invited]
Waka HIROKAWA
The 3rd International Hansen Forum 17 Sep 2015 Sorokdo National Hospital
New Perspectives on the History of Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy) in Modern Japan: Beyond Commemoration and Denunciation[Invited]
Waka HIROKAWA
Embodied Histories: New Perspectives on Prostitution and Disease in Modern Japan, Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University 26 Mar 2014
New Perspectives on the History of Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy) in Modern Japan: Beyond Commemoration and Denunciation[Invited]
Waka Hirokawa 2 Mar 2014
A History Torn Between “Providing Relief” and “Inflicting Harm”: Missionary Work for Hansen’s Disease Sufferers and Local Communities in Modern Japan from the 1880s to the 1940s
Waka Hirokawa
The 18th International Leprosy Congress 17 Sep 2013
The Linkage of Hansen’s Disease between Pre-modern and Modern, Inside and Outside Japan
Waka Hirokawa
The Sixth Conference for the Asian Society for the History of Medicine 14 Dec 2012
Treatment Places and Living Places: The Circumstances of People with Hansen’s Disease in Modern Japan
Waka Hirokawa
British Association for Japanese Studies Conference 2012 7 Sep 2012
From Rural to Urban Communities: Reconsidering the Epidemiology of Hansen’s Disease in Modern Japan
Waka Hirokawa
Japan at Chicago: Medicine, Politics, and Culture in the Japanese Empire 11 May 2012
A Colony or a Sanitarium? A Comparative History of Segregation Politics of Hansen’s Disease in Modern Japan
Waka Hirokawa
Science, Technology, and Medicine in East Asia: Policy, Practice, and Implications in a Global Context 8 Oct 2011
Understanding Modern Japan Through Epidemiological Patterns of Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy), 1880s-1950s
Waka Hirokawa
Asian Studies Conference Japan 25 Jun 2011
The International Impact of the Prevalence of Leprosy on Colonialism and Japan in the Late 19th / Early 20th Century
Waka Hirokawa
Death and Dying in Early Modern Japan Workshop Sep 2009
