Yuma Totani

Professor
Primary Fields: Modern Japan, World Comparative / Transnational
Other Fields: History of International Criminal Justice

Office: Sakamaki A406
Email: yuma@hawaii.edu | Phone: (808) 956-8564
Accepting new graduate students? Yes

 

 

 

Background

I am a humanities scholar with areas of specialization in the history of modern Japan and post-World War II war crimes trials that the Allied Powers held against the Japanese in the Asia-Pacific region (1945-1952). My professional mission is to undertake a series of multi-year research and book publications that aim at illuminating the causes, circumstances, and consequences of Japanese war and war crimes, and considering the significance of our historical knowledge of World War II for strengthening the principle of international justice in the twenty-first century. I offer courses on the history of modern Japan, World War II in Asia and the Pacific, and international criminal justice. I earned my B.A. in History of Art from International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan), M.S. in Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. I taught at the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for two years before joining in 2008 the Department of History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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