Presenters’ Bio:
Shinzo Araragi is a professor at Yamato University and Professor Emeritus at Sophia University.
Specializes in historical sociology and sociology of war. His publications include "The Historical
Sociology of ’Manchurian Immigrants’ (Korosha:1994) and edited volumes, Toward a
Comparative History of War and Sexual Violence (Iwanami-shoten: 2018), Repatriation,Deportation, and Residency (Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai: 2019), Why Inherit the War
Experience? (Mizuki Shorin: 2021), Living between Empires (Mizuki Shorin: 2022).
Andrew Gordon is a professor of history at Harvard University, with primary focus on themodern history of Japan. He has written books on the history of labor, the emergence of themodern consumer, and a widely used textbook, A Modern History of Japan (日本の２００年).
He and colleagues at Harvard created the Japan Disasters Digital Archive, focused primarily on
the compound disasters of March 11, 2011.
Ryo Morimoto is an assistant professor in Anthropology at Princeton University. His research
explores the ever-shifting relationship between nuclear things, humans, and non-humanothers. He is the author of "Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone." Ryodirects the Nuclear Princeton Project.
Shosuke Sato is an associate professor at Tohoku University. He received a doctorate ofinformatics from Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University in 2011. He started his career
as an assistant professor at Tohoku University. He received the Commendation for Science andTechnology by the (MEXT) The Young Scientists’ Award in 2021 in the field of disaster tradition.
Anna Wiemann is an assistant professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She
received a B.A. in Japanese Linguistics and Roman Philology (French) at Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, an M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg, and a PhD inJapanese Studies at Hamburg University. She held academic positions as a lecturer forJapanese Studies at Hamburg University and as a research associate at Heinrich-HeineUniversität Düsseldorf. Her research interests are civil society and social movements, social
networks and collective memory.
Julia Gerster is an assistant professor at the Disaster Culture and Archive division at theInternational Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University. She received
her PhD in Japanese studies from Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the role of local
culture in community rebuilding after 3.11. Her research interests include disaster cultural andcollective memory, (negative) heritage preservation, narratives and storytelling as well as socialrecovery. Julia is co-editor of “Japan’s triple disaster. Pursuing Justice after the Great East Japan
Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Accident.”
Hidenobu Fukumoto (penname, Teppei Ikumasa) is a kamishibai creator and president of theMachi Monogatari Seisaku Iinkai. He has been working on the recovery of the Great East Japan
Earthquake to deliver kamishibai of stories from the disaster areas. He has delivered more than170 kamishibai to disaster victims, including 70 related to the earthquake and the nuclear
power plant accident. In Fukushima, more than ten groups have been formed and are using
storytelling activities.
Taketoshi Yamamoto is a professor emeritus in Japanese history at Waseda University andHitotsubashi University and the founder of the Institute of Intelligence Studies, Japan. His
publications include Media Analysis of the Occupation Period (1996), Kamishibai: Street Media(2000), Asahi Newspaper's Invasion in China (2011), and The Nakano School of the ImperialJapanese Army: The Training Center for Military Intelligence Operations (2017).
Sharalyn Orbaugh is a professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Head of the Department ofAsian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her 2015 book, Propaganda Performed:
Kamishibai in Japan's Fifteen Year War, provides a history and analysis of kamishibai in 1930sand 1940s Japan.
Kaoru Ueda is a research fellow and curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at the Hoover
Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University. She curates physical and online
exhibitions, a digital collection of overseas Japanese newspapers(http://hojishinbun.hoover.org), collecting archival materials, and promoting their use. Her
edited volume includes Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan (2021).