This resource is made possible by collaboration between faculty, graduate, and undergraduate student researchers, community researchers and archivists, as well as student assistants and staff at the University of British Columbia.
Creators
Ayaka Yoshimizu is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, whose research focuses on memories of migrant sex workers to and from Japan. Her areas of teaching include Japanese literature, films and media; audiovisual translation; and transpacific histories and cultures.
Saeko Suzuki is a PhD Student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the publishing and printing culture of early modern Japan.
Contributors
Asato Ikeda. Associate Professor of Art History, Fordham University. Her research interests lie in modern Japanese art in particular and Asian art in general, and the topics of imperialism/colonialism, war, fascism, museums, sex, gender, sexuality, and transnational exchange.
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Aydin Quach 郭汶進 (he/they) is a Ph.D. Student in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
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Laura Ishiguro is an historian of Canada, with research and teaching areas that include histories of colonialism, society, Asian Canadian communities, and British Columbia. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies at the University of British Columbia. *Kiyo (forthcoming)
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the work and support received from the following individuals and units to develop this resource: Julia Aoki, Chris Hu, Sayano Izu, Sarah Ogoshi, Ashley Robinson, UBC’s Arts ISIT, UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, UBC Studios.