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East Asian administrative household registration systems and The Japanese 'war orphans' and 'wives'.
1. East Asian administrative household registration systems, particularly that of Japan and comparative and multi-disciplinary (e.g. history, law, literature, ethnography/anthropology) explorations of the neighboring household registration regimes. The aim is to explore this type of registration's impact on and role in relation to the state, family, and individual.
2. The Japanese 'war orphans' and 'wives' who, stranded in Manchuria, came to remain in China after the Japanese defeat until the Japanese state began assisting their return to Japan from 1980 until today. The approach is multidisciplinary and focuses on history (Manchuria/Imperial Japan, PRC, postwar Japan), memory, state policy development, life histories, representation (e.g. TV dramas), etc.
Book chapter: “‘What Do You Think Registry Is?’: Popular perceptions of household registration in 1950s and 2000s Japan”. In: People, Papers, and Practices: Identification and Registration in Transnational Perspective, 1500-2010, edited by About, I., J. Brown, G. Lonergan. New York. Palgrave MacMillan. Forthcoming
Journal article: “Numbered Individuals, Digital Traditions, and Individual Rights: Civil status registration in Denmark 1645 to 2010”. Ritsumeikan Law Review. Kyoto. March. P. 87-126
Book chapter: “The ideal, the deficient, and the illogical family: an initial typology of administrative household units.” In Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation. London. Japan Anthropology Workshop Series, Routledge. P. 65-90
Newspaper article : “Orden i kaos.” In Weekendavisen, 18 March 2011
Internet article : “The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake: Unmitigated disaster followed by a New Deal-type reconstruction?”.Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (infocus.asiaportal.info). 13 March
Internet article : “Separate surnames: the breakdown of families vs. the emancipation of women”. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (infocus.asiaportal.info). 30 December, 2009
Book review: “Koseki to jinken by Ninomiya Shūhei”. European Journal of East Asian Studies Vol. 7, No. 1. 2008. P. 155-157