Asia-Pacific War

Symposium: "Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War" (Feb 7-8)

We are pleased to announce the opening of our online symposium titled “Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War: History, Memory, and Forgetting” to registered audience members. The symposium will be held across two days between 16:00-19:30 on Tuesday, February 7 and 9:00-17:00 on Wednesday, February 8, Japan time. This symposium brings together scholars researching the histories, memorialization and forgetting of prisoners and prison camps of the Asia Pacific War. See the schedule below.

Symposium: "Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War" (Feb 7-8)

ICAS/TUJ Event: 14 February 2023 at 17:00: Families of former US POWs in Japan

Announcement: Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and Reimaging of History (Bloomsbury Academic)

Dear H-Net Japan members,

Announcement: monograph Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and Reimaging of History (Bloomsbury Academic)

Dear H-War members,

Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War: History, Memory, and Forgetting

This is a call for papers and panels for an online symposium on February 8, 2023 on soldier and civilian prisoners in the (Austral)Asia-Pacific during WWII. In particular, it focuses on places, practices and memories of incarceration.