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Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Department of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University

Degree: Doctor of American Studies(Doshisha University)
M.A. (Political Studies)(Queen's University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 200901097866690202
researchmap Member ID: 1000320315

Research Interests

6

Research Areas

5

Research History

8

Apr, 2013 - Present

Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University
Sep, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
Apr, 2022 - Aug, 2022

Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Visiting Scholar, National Taiwan Normal University/Academia Sinica
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2013

Professor, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2011

Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University
Apr, 2003 - Mar, 2011

Associate Professor, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University
Sep, 2004 - Aug, 2005

Fulbright Scholarship Researcher Program
Apr, 2000 - Mar, 2003

Assistant Professor, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University

Education

8

Apr, 1995 - Mar, 2000

Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University
Apr, 1995 - Mar, 2000

Ph.D Program, Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University
Jan, 1997 - Oct, 1998

歴史学研究科, ビクトリア大学大学院
Jan, 1997 - Oct, 1998

Department of History, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Victoria
Sep, 1988 - Oct, 1990

修士課程, 政治学研究科, クィーンズ大学大学院
Sep, 1988 - Oct, 1990

MA Program, Department of Political Studies, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Queen's University at Kingston
Apr, 1984 - Mar, 1988

Faculty of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Apr, 1984 - Mar, 1988

BA Program, Department of Anglo-American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Language, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Committee Memberships

7

Jun, 2022 - Present

Co-chair, Archives Cluster, Past Wrongs Future Choices
Apr, 2016 - Jun, 2022

理事、共同研究推進委員, 日本移民学会
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2013

大会企画委員, アメリカ学会
Nov, 2009 - Oct, 2012

Member, International Committee, American Studies Association
Nov, 2005 - Oct, 2008

International Delegate, National Council, American Studies Association
2005 - 2008

International Delegate for the National Council, American Studies Association
Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2007

Member, Program Committee, Association for Asian American Studies

Awards

9

Major Books and Other Publications

23

＜Translation＞Nobuko Miyamoto, Not Yo' Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution (University of California Press, 2021)

Masumi Izumi (Role: Sole translator)

Takanashi Shobo, Dec 1, 2023 (ISBN: 9784867800300)
When We Raise Our Voices: 10 Questions that Changed America

Masumi Izumi, Fumiko Sakashita, Kazuyo Tsuchiya, Seiko Mimaki, Mari Yoshihara (Role: Joint author, "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez," pp.71-94; "Ruth Bader Ginsburg," pp.243-261.)

Shueisha, Jun, 2022 (ISBN: 9784087212181)
日系カナダ人の移動と運動 : 知られざる日本人の越境生活史

和泉, 真澄

小鳥遊書房, Jan, 2020 (ISBN: 9784909812247)
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s

Masumi Izumi

Temple University Press, Sep, 2019 (ISBN: 9781439917244)
Japanese American Internment and the Emergency Detention Act: Memories and Dilemma over Race, Security, and Liberty

Masumi Izumi

Akashi Shoten, Feb, 2009 (ISBN: 9784750329338)

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Major Papers

25

Separate National Apologies, Transnational Injustices: Second World War Oppression, Anti-Japanese Persecution, and the Politics of Apology in Five Countries

Matt James, Jessica Fernández de, Lara Harada, Masumi Izumi, Monica Okamoto, Jordan Stanger-Ross

Global Studies Quarterly, 2(4) 1-13, Dec 24, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Dissecting Asian American History in the Light of the COVID-19 Related Yellow Peril Sentiment

Masumi Izumi

Rikkyo American Studies, (44) 7-27, Mar, 2022 Invited
Asian Americans and the Black Lives Matte Movement

Masumi Izumi

Gendai Shiso, October 2020, Special Issue, "Black Lives Matter", 299-306, Oct, 2020 Invited
Gila River Concentration Camp and the Historical Memory of Japanese American Concentration Camp

Masumi Izumi

Japanese Journal of American Studies, 29 67-87, Jul, 2018 Invited
Concentration Camps without Barbed Wire : Japanese Canadians during World War 2 (Forced Migration and Internment of Overseas Japanese during World War 2)

IZUMI Masumi

Ritsumeikan studies in language and culture, 25(1) 119-135, Oct, 2013
Seeking the Truth, Spiritual and Political: Japanese American Community Building through Engaged Ethnic Buddhism

Masumi Izumi

Peace and Change, 35(1) 39-67, Jan, 2010 Peer-reviewed
The Japanese Canadian movement: Migration and activism before & after World War II

Masumi Izumi

AMERASIA JOURNAL, 33(2) 49-66, 2007 Peer-reviewedInvited
Alienable Citizenship: Race, Loyalty and the Law in the Age of "American Concentration Camps," 1941-1971

Masumi Izumi

Asian American Law Journal, (13) 1-30, Nov, 2006 Peer-reviewed
Prohibiting "American concentration camps": Repeal of the emergency detention act and the public historical memory of the Japanese American internment

M Izumi

PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, 74(2) 165-193, May, 2005 Peer-reviewed
Reconsidering Ethnic Culture and Community: A Case Study on Japanese Canadian Taiko Drumming

Masumi Izumi

Journal of Asian American Studies, 4(1) 35-56, Feb, 2001 Peer-reviewed

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Presentations

111

＜Public Lecture＞"Development of the Vancouver Japan Town and the Emigrants from Shiga," (Lecture Series on Japanese Canadian History, Shiga Peace Museum, Yokaichi, Shiga), 2023.11.18

Masumi Izumi

Lecture Series on the "Broken Promises" Exhibition, Shiga Peace Museum, Yokaichi, Shiga, Nov 18, 2023 Invited
Japanese American Spirituality in the Tule Lake Stockade: Soul Searching of a Kibei-Nisei Judo Practitioner

Masumi Izumi

American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QE, Canada, Nov 3, 2023
The Effectiveness and Limitation of the Concept of "Settler Colonialism": Re-considering Japanese North American Wartime Removal from the Relationship with the Indigenous Peoples

Masumi Izumi

Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for American History, Sep 17, 2023 Invited
International Research Collaboration Project in Canada on the History of Overseas Ethnic Japanese

Masumi Izumi

Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Canadian Studies, Sep 16, 2023 Invited
Transcultural Reading of the Tule Lake Stockade Diary: The Alienation of the Body, Mind, and Soul of a Kibei/Nisei Prisoner

Masumi Izumi

"Intersections and Relations: Asian American Studies in Global Frames” Conference, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Jun 29, 2023 Invited
Transnationalizing Citizenship: Allegiance, Belonging, and Race in the Wartime Uprooting and Deportation of the Ethnic Japanese in North America and Australia

Jordan Stanger-Ross, Masumi Izumi

Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 30, 2023
＜Guest Lecture＞Concentration Camps without Barbed Wire: World War II and Japanese Canadians

Masumi Izumi

6th Seminar on the 145-Year History of Japanese Canadians, Apr 27, 2023 Invited
No Samurai, No Monk, but a Japanese American Judo Practitioner: Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye’s Soul Searching in the Tule Lake Stockade Diary

Masumi Izumi

Guest Lecture at “Coffee talk” series, Center for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Mar 27, 2023
‘International Mother, They Say’: Creativity and Self-making in the Writing of First-Generation Japanese North American Women

Masumi Izumi, Andrea Mariko Grant

Global Talk, Signature Series, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Mar 22, 2023
The Unification Church and Japanese Society: Culture, Politics and Family

Masumi Izumi

Guest Lecture at the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Feb 6, 2023
What Can Transnational History Do?: On Archiving and Reading Japanese American Experiences in the “Tule Lake Stockade Diary,” 1943-1944

Masumi Izumi

Past Wrongs Future Choices Scholars Residency Talk, Department of History, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Dec 6, 2022 Invited
Bad Medicine?: The Legal Legacy of Japanese American Wartime Incarceration and the Precarious Politics of Remembering Injustice

Masumi Izumi

Visiting Scholar Online Lecture, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec 6, 2022
Starvation, Sickness, and Shave Heads: Transnational Citizenship and the ‘Alienation’ of Japanese American Bodies in Wartime Incarceration

Masumi Izumi

Past Wrongs Future Choices Scholars Residency Talk, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiative, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Nov 29, 2022 Invited
On Hunger Strike!: Food, Power, and Resistance in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, 1943-1944

Masumi Izumi

American Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, LA, USA, Nov 5, 2022
Cutting-In Feminism

Masumi Izumi

Asahi Culture Center, Lecture on Unhinged Feminism, Jul 31, 2022 Invited
To Make Where You Are Your Home: Hatsuye Egami’s Migration and Writings in Japanese American Concentration Camps

Masumi Izumi

American Comparative Literature Association, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Jun 17, 2022
Enemies or Model Farmers?: Settler Colonialism and the Agricultural Projects in the Japanese American War Relocation Centers

Masumi Izumi

Visiting Scholar Online Lecture, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Jun 6, 2022 Invited
Asian Americans and the Black Lives Matter Movement

Masumi Izumi

National Taiwan Normal University, Centennial Lecture Series in Literature, May 9, 2022 Invited
Tule Lake Stockade Diary: Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye and the Question of "Japanese-ness"

Masumi Izumi

Tule Lake Stockade Diary Book Presentation, Japanese American Museum of San Jose, Apr 16, 2022 Invited
Reassessing the 1907 Vancouver Anti-Asian Race Riot in Trans-Pacific Empire Studies

Masumi Izumi

Organization for American Historians, Annual Meeting, Apr 2, 2022

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Misc.

44

＜Author's Book Talk, Interpretation＞Not Yo’ Butterfly: Migration, Race, Love, and Revolution - My Long Song of "Japanese America" (Doshisha University, Group Research Project, "Transient Subjects/Unsettled Settlers," International Center for American Studies)

Masumi Izumi, Nobuko Miyamoto

Dec 11, 2023
＜Movie and Director's Talk＞Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, dir., "100 Years from Mississippi," Nanzan University, Nagoya.

Masumi Izumi

Dec 10, 2023
＜Movie and Director's Talk＞Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, dir., "100 Years from Mississippi" (University of Kitakyushu, Kokura)

Masumi Izumi

Dec 8, 2023
＜Movie and Director's Talk＞Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, dir., "100 Years from Mississippi" (Kyoritsu Women's University, Tokyo)

Masumi Izumi

Dec 2, 2023
＜Movie and Director's Talk＞Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, dir., "100 Years from Mississippi" (Group Research Project 3 "Transient Subjects/Unsettled Settlers," International Center for American Studies, Doshisha University

Masumi Izumi

Dec 1, 2023
＜Japanese Premier of Museum Exhibit＞ National Nikkei Museum, "Broken Promises," Japan Exhibit, Shiga Peace Museum, Nov. 1, 2023 - Feb. 25, 2024.

Masumi Izumi, Norifumi Kawahara, Sachiko Kawakami

Nov 1, 2023
＜Japanese Subtitles＞ Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, dir., "100 Years from Mississippi," (Goldbaby Productions, 2020).

Masumi Izumi, Taraby Betserai Kirkland, dir

Nov, 2023
<Book Review> Yoosun Park, Facilitating Injustice: The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)

Masumi Izumi

American Historical Review,, 127(1) 515-516, Apr, 2022 Invited
<Book Review> John E. Schmitz, Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021)

Masumi Izumi

Pacific Historical Review, 91(4) 562-564, Nov, 2021 Invited
“The Citizenship Question: A Conversation,”

Masumi Izumi, Joy Kogawa

Georgia Review, Spring 174-182, Apr, 2020
“Background Explanation of Japanese Canadian History,” in the Japanese translation of Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki (Caitlin Press, 2015)

Masumi Izumi

283-296, Oct, 2019 Invited
＜Book Review＞ Roger W. Lotchin, Japanese American Relocation in World War II: A Reconsideration (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Masumi Izumi

Pacific Historical Review, 88(3) 497-498, Aug, 2019 Invited
＜学会年次大会ラウンドテーブルの企画、モデレータ＞日本移民学会年次大会ラウンドテーブル「『バンクーバー朝日』の歴史を掘り起こす－関係者子孫による調査と発見および研究者との連携について」天理大学

Jun 29, 2019
＜国際ミニシンポジウム企画・発表＞グローバル地域文化学部小規模講演会「アリゾナ州エスニック教育禁止法をめぐる訴訟と歴史的記憶をめぐる地域横断的対話のためのGRミニシンポジウム（講演者：Lorraine K. Bannai、和泉真澄、向正樹、亀谷百合佳）にて「グローバル地域文化論Ⅰ」での教育実践を発表。同志社大学

May 21, 2019
＜学会年次大会ラウンドテーブルの企画、モデレータ＞日本移民学会年次大会ラウンドテーブル「国立国会図書館の活用－憲政資料室の日系移民関係資料について」、南山大学

Jun 24, 2018
＜国際公開講演会の企画、実施＞「Making of “100 Years in Mississippi” and Creating a Multi-Ethnic Bon-Odori」Great Leap、Nobuko Miyamoto and Tarabu Betserai Kirkland。同志社大学

Nov 13, 2017
＜国際公開講演会の企画、実施＞「Reflections on the Historical Study of Asians in the United States」カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校、アジア系アメリカ研究プログラム教授David K. Yoo氏。同志社大学

Oct 14, 2017
＜国際シンポジウム企画・実施＞「海を渡るベースボール－民族・移民・国家の関わりから」立命館大学

Nov 19, 2016
＜Column＞ Resituating Displaced/Replaced Subjects in and of Japanese Canadian History

Masumi Izumi

Christine Kim and Chris Lee (eds), “Asian Canadian Critique Forum,” Canadian Literature, (227) 194-196, Nov, 2016 Invited
＜Commentator＞ Comments for Myla Vicenti-Carpio and Karen J. Leong, “Between Social Death and State Recognition: Japanese Americans and the Gila River Indian Community During World War II.” 京都大学人文科学研究所セミナー “Intersecting the Global with the Local: Activism and American Minorities,” 京都大学

Masumi Izumi

Jun 25, 2016 Invited

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Professional Memberships

10

Works

6

Research Projects

6

From Mio: Community-based Public History Project

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2026
Trans-local Study on the Japanese Canadian Returnees and Deportees who Settled in Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Izumi Masumi
Transnational Mobility and Occupations of Overseas Japanese in the Pacific Rim

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2018

YONEYAMA Hiroshi
Historical Research on Japanese American Internment Camps in Arizona, U.S.A.

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2015

IZUMI Masumi
An Interdisciplinary Study of the International Movement of the Japanese in the Pacific Region

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2006 - 2009

YONEYAMA Hiroshi, SAKAGUCHI Mitsuhiro, YAMAZAKI Yuko, KAWAHARA Norifumi, IZUMI Masumi, MINAMIKAWA Fuminori, TODOROKI Hiroshi, HAYASHI BRIAN MASARU, MONOBE Hiromi, MIYASHITA Takashi, AZUMA Eiichiro, GUTHRIE-SHIMIZU Sayuri, NIIYA Brian
Community Building through Cultural Activism: Ethnic and Inter-Ethnic Activities in the Los Angeles Japanese American Community

Fulbright Scholarship Researcher Program, Fulbright Japan, Sep, 2004 - Aug, 2005

Masumi Izumi

Media Coverage

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（Guest Lecturer）Yasushi Watanabe, "Politics and Society in Modern America," Lesson 15, "Japan-US Relationship and Japanese Americans."

NHK, Open University, Apr, 2024 TV or radio program
History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 3: Postwar Community Revitalization and Redress Movement

Written by Norm Masaji Ibuki, Discover Nikkei, https://discovernikkei.org/ja/journal/2023/4/18/9535/, Apr 18, 2023 Internet
History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 2: Japanese American vs Japanese Canadian Internment/Incarceration

Written by Norm Masaji Ibuki, Discover Nikkei, "Community", Apr 11, 2023 Internet
History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 1: Family Background

Written by Norm Masaji Ibuki, Discover Nikkei, "Identity", Apr 4, 2023 Internet
History of Discrimination and Admiration: Analyzing Americans' Love and Hate for Asians

Kodansha, Gendai Business Web Version, Jul 7, 2022 Internet
Why is BTS Popular but the Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Increased Rapidly in America?

Kodansha, Gendai Business Web Version, Jun 30, 2022 Internet
（Commentary）Backgrounds for Discrimination against Asian Residents in the United States

NHK Radio 1, N-Raji, Jun 8, 2021 TV or radio program
（Commentary）Increasing Anti-Asian Hate in the United States (3)

Mainichi Shinbun, Evenin Edition, p.8., Jun 2, 2021 Newspaper, magazine
（Commentary）Increasing Anti-Asian Hate in the United States (2)

Mainichi Shinbun, Evenin Edition, p.6., Jun 1, 2021 Newspaper, magazine
（Commentary）Increasing Anti-Asian Hate in the United States (1)

Mainichi Shinbun, Evening Edition, p.6., May 31, 2021 Newspaper, magazine
（Commentary）"Backgrounds for Anti-Asian Hate"

NHK, NHK "Shuukan Maruwakari News", "Migake Koukishin!", May 15, 2021 TV or radio program