MORIGUCHI, Yuka Professor
| Graduate School | Human and Environmental Studies/Studies on Global Coexistence |
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| Undergraduate School | Studies on Global Coexistence （Division of Multi-Disciplinary Studies of Civilizations） |
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| tsuchiya.yuka.8m(**at**)kyoto-u.ac.jp | |
| Personal Page | Website |
| Research areas | Historical Study of U.S. Public and Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War |
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| Keywords | United States, Cold War, culture, information, science and technology |
| Themes | 1. My primary research interest lies in the U.S. cultural and public diplomacy during the Cold War, especially from the 1950s to the 70s. My research methodology is mostly multi-archival research using English and Japanese historical documents. In particular, the focus of my research in recent years has been how science and technology, such as atomic energy, medical aid, and space flight, was perceived as diplomatic means, and how they interacted with international relations. 2. Aside from the main research interest mentioned above, I am also interested in the history of U.S.-Japan relations seen from the ocean. More concretely, I have been exploring the transition of pelagic fisheries from the pre-Second World War to the postwar years, and how those changes affected international relations in the Cold War era. My research methodologies include oral history interviews with fishermen and others involved in pelagic fisheries, and analysis of historical materials stored in local archives and libraries. |
| Major publications | Yuka Tsuchiya, Cultural Cold War and Science, Technology and the Cultural Cold War in Asia: From Atoms for Peace to Space Flight (Routledge, forthcoming in 2022). Yuka Tsuchiya, et al. eds., Knowledge as Diplomacy: U.S. and Asia in the Cold War (forthcoming in 2022). Yuka Tsuchiya, "Japan's Decision to Introduce U.S. Nuclear Reactors in the late 1950s: U.S. Information Campaign to Influence the Japanese Industry," conference paper, Workshop on Cold War and Knowledge in East Asia (National Chengchi University, Taipei, January 29, 2018). Yuka Tsuchiya, "Tuna-fishing as Sussistence and Migrant Work: Cases of Two Japanese Fishing Communities during the 1960s," conference paper, XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (Tronto, Canada, July 18, 2018). Yuka Tsuchiya, "Japanese Tuna Fishermen and Thermonuclear Tests: Gender and a Dilemma of the Protest," conference paper, International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) 2018 (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, August 12, 2018) Yuka Tsuchiya, "Chicken of the Sea and Thermonuclear Tests: Japanese Tuna Fishermen in the 1950s as Boundary-Crossers," conference paper, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (Toronto, Canada, March 2017). Yuka Tsuchiya, "The Cold War and the U.S. State-Sponsored Films: A Focus on India and Japan," invited lecture, Japan-India Roundtable, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India, January 28, 2015) Yuka Tsuchiya, "The Atoms for Peace USIS Films: Spreading the Gospel of the 'Blessing' of Atomic Energy in the Early Cold War Era," International Journal of Korean History, vol. 19, no. 2 (August 2014). Yuka Tsuchiya, "Provoking Desire to be Part of the Family of Nations: The CIE and USIS Films on the United Nations" in Japanese Cinema Book, forthcoming. |
| Professional societies/Research and synergic activities | Japanese Association of American Studies The Japanese Association for American History The Japan Association of International Relations Japanese Political Science Association American Studies Association Organization of American Historians Society for the History of American Foreign Relations |
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| Background | 2016-present: Professor, Kyoto University 2009-2016: Professor, Ehime University 2004-2009: Associate Professor, Ehime University 2004: Ph.D. at University of Minnesota, Department of American Studies 1993-2000: Research Assistant and Lecturer, Hiroshima University, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences 1992 M.A. at University of Maryland, Department of History |
