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Stanford
Department of History
School of Humanities and Sciences

Jun Uchida

Professor of History
Department Vice-Chair
Ph.D., Harvard University, History
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, History
B.A., Cornell University, History

My teaching and research focus on the following areas of interest:

Japanese empire in Asia
Colonial Korea
Comparative Colonialism
History of immigration and diaspora
Transpacific History
Settler colonialism
Decolonization and politics of memory
Oral history

Books

Articles/Chapters

"Pacific Empire" as a Useful Analytical Category

2017

"From Island Nation to Oceanic Empire: A Vision of Japanese Expansion from the Periphery"

2016

"The Public Sphere in Colonial Life: Residents' Movements in Korea under Japanese Rule."

2013

“Between Collaboration and Conflict: State and Society in Wartime Korea”

2013

A Sentimental Journey: Mapping the Interior Frontier of Japanese Settlers in Colonial Korea

2011

“ ‘A Scramble for Freight’: the Politics of Collaboration along and across the Railway Tracks of Colonial Korea”

2009

“Ch’ongnyŏkch’ŏn sigi e issŏsŏ ŭi chae Chosŏn Ilbonin ŭi ‘naesŏn ilch’e’ chŏngch’aek e taehan hyŏmnyŏk [Japanese Settlers’ Collaboration with ‘Naisen Ittai’ Policy in Colonial Korea under Total War],”

2008

“Brokers of Empire: Japanese and Korean business elites in colonial Korea”

2005

Book Review: Takasaki Sōji, Shokuminchi Chōsen no Nihonjin [The Japanese in Colonial Korea] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2002)

2003

“Shokuminchiki Chōsen ni okeru Dōkaseisaku to Zaichō Nihonjin—Dōminkai o jirei to shite [Assimilation Policy and Japanese Settlers in Colonial Korea: A Case Study of the Dōminkai]”

2003

“America ni okeru seiyō shokuminchi kenkyū – atarashii shiten no kaitaku [Recent Trends in Colonial Studies in the United States: Exploring New Perspectives]”

2001
  

Contact

Telephone
(650) 723-1556
External Profile
Research Area(s)
Subfield
Empires
Global, Transnational, and International History
Immigration, Borderlands, and Frontiers
Social History
The Pacific World
Highlights

Prof. Mark Ravina of Emory University, an esteemed Stanford alumnus, delivered a keynote lecture on “Meiji Japan and the ‘Long-Nineteenth Century’ in celebration of a trifecta of anniversaries: CEAS's 50th, Hoover’s centennial, & the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration

Stanford East Asian Library acquires nearly century-old diaries kept by a Japanese immigrant in San Francisco Bay Area .

Translations

  • Pransenjit Duara, “Ethnos and Ethnology in Manchukuo,” translated into “Manshūkoku ni okeru Minzoku to Minzokugaku,” in Iwanami Kōza: Ajia, Taiheiyō Sensō, vol. 7: Shihai to bōryoku (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2006).
  • Sandra Wilson, “Securing prosperity and serving the nation: Japanese farmers and Manchuria, 1931-33,” in Ann Waswo and Nishida Yoshiaki, eds. Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), translated into Japanese for Nishida Yoshiaki and Ann Waswo, eds. Nijusseiki Nihon no nōmin to nōson (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2006)

Book Reviews

  • Todd A. Henry, Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (University of California Press, 2014), The Journal of Asian Studies 74, no. 3 (August 2015): 763-65.
  • Takasaki Sōji, Shokuminchi Chōsen no Nihonjin [The Japanese in Colonial Korea] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2002), Kankoku Chōsen Bunka Kenkyūkai, ed. Kankoku Chōsen no bunka to shakai [Korean Culture and Society], vol. 2 (October 2003).