
Dr Shigeru Sato
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science (Japanese)
- Email:shigeru.sato@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 8986
Career Summary
Biography
Japanese Empire and the People of Southeast Asia
“Japanese Imperialism and the People of Southeast Asia” is the title of Sato’s new book manuscript. His article 'French Colonialism, Japanese Imperialism and the Great Vietnamese Famine' is forthcoming from the Cambridge journal of Modern Asian Studies. He is affiliated with the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, and has researched socioeconomic impact of World War II in Java, British and Dutch Borneo, Eastern Indonesia, and French Indochina. He has contributed to End of Empire: One Hundred Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World”, Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2016. In 2014, he was a guest speaker three times at the Northeast Asian History Foundation, Seoul, and discussed war and colonialism in East and Southeast Asia. Earlier, he was a guest lecturer in the Summer Institute of the East-West Center, the University of Hawaii, and a visiting research fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden (twice), the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, NIOD Institute of War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam (twice), and the Australian National Library in Canberra. He has authored War, Nationalism and Peasants: Java under the Japanese Occupation 1942-1945, edited The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War, and contributed to World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War’s Aftermath, with General Themes, and many other books and refereed journals.
Research ExpertiseWorld War II in Asia. Japanese expansionism and its social and economic impact on other Asian countries, particularly Indonesia, French Indochina and British Borneo. Forced prostitution for the Japanese armed forces during WWII. Wartime labour mobilisation. The economic policies by the Dutch colonial authorities before the Japanese invasion, 1939-1942. Japanese language teaching in the Japanese-occupied Asian territories. Daily life in wartime Indonesia, 1939-1949.
Teaching Expertise
Japanese language teaching from the introductory level to the master's level. Japanese history. Transformation of Japanese society as reflected in fiction and statistics. Origin of the Japanese people (their pre-historic migratory patterns and the relationships with the peoples in the other parts of the world, based on genetic, archaeological, and linguistic evidence.) Japanese literature, particularly fiction and poetry, both classical and modern.
Administrative Expertise
I have acted as Student Academic Conduct Officer, the Japanese section representative, research officer, and library liaison officer.
Collaborations
Currently Sato has collaborated with international scholars to launch the project, “End of Empire: One Hundred Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World”, which is managed by NIAS Press based in Copenhagen. Many of his earlier publications, such as "The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War" and "Sex, Power, and Slavery" have also resulted from extensive international collaborations with scholars who hail from all the five continents. He has also collaborated with the East-West Center, The University of Hawaii, and the Northeast Asian History Foundation in Seoul, in teacher training and international symposia.
Qualifications
- PhD, Griffith University
Keywords
- Asian Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Southeast Asia during World War II
Professional Experience
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/12/2013 - 1/1/2014 | Visiting Research Fellow | The National Library of Australia Asian Collection Australia |
1/11/2005 - 1/1/2006 | Visiting Fellow | NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies Indonesia |
1/11/2003 - 1/2/2004 | Visiting Research Fellow | NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies Indonesia |
1/10/1999 - 1/1/2000 | Visiting Research Fellow | International Institute of Social History CLARA Project Australia |
1/11/1996 - 1/2/1997 | Exchange Research Fellow | International Institute of Asian Studies Australia |
1/9/1995 - 1/12/1995 | Exchange Research Fellow | International Institute of Asian Studies Australia |
1/6/2011 - 1/7/2011 | Guest Lecturer | East-West Center, The University of Hawaii The Summer Institute, East West Center United States |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2010 | Post P, Frederick W, Heidebrink I, Sato S, The Encyclopaedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War, Brill, Leiden, 684 (2010) [A3] |
Chapter (9 outputs)
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2016 | Sato S, 'Forced Labourers and Their Fate', End of Empire: 100 days in 1945 that changed Asia and the world, NiAS Press, Copenhagen 90-92 (2016) [B1] | ||||
2015 | Sato S, 'More Bitter than Sweet: Reflecting on the Japanese Community in British North Borneo, 1885-1946', Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied, Palgrave Macmillan, London 88-106 (2015) [B1] | ||||
2014 | Sato S, 'The Japanese Army and Comfort Women in World War II', Sex, Power and Slavery, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH 389-403 (2014) [B1] | ||||
2007 | Sato S, 'Daily Life in Wartime Indonesia, 1939 -1949', Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia: From the Taiping Rebellion to the Vietnam War, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut 159-189 (2007) [B1] | ||||
2007 | Sato S, 'Forced Labourers and Their Resistance in Java Under Japanese Military Rule, 1942-45', Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, Routledge, London 82-95 (2007) [B1] | ||||
2005 |
Sato S, ''Economic Soldiers' in Java: Indonesian Laborers Mobilized for Agricultural Projects', Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire: Unknown Histories, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, New York 129-151 (2005) [B1]
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2003 | Sato S, 'Japanization in Indonesia Re-Examined: The Problem of Self-Sufficiency in Clothing', Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia, 1895 - 1945, RoutledgeCurzon, London and New York 270-295 (2003) [B1] | ||||
1998 | Sato S, 'Japanese Occupation, Resistance, and Collaboration in Asia', World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Theme, Greenwood Press, West Port, Connecticut & London Seventeen (1998) [B1] | ||||
1998 | Sato S, 'Oppression and Romanticism: The Food Supply of Java during the Japanese Occupation', Food Supplies and the Japanese Occupation in South-East Asia, Macmillan & St. Martin's Press, Howndmill, London, & New York Twenty (1998) [B1] | ||||
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Journal article (8 outputs)
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2011 | Sato S, 'The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-1945', Asian Studies Review, 35 567-569 (2011) [C3] | |||||||
2010 |
Sato S, 'Gatot Mangkupraja, PETA, and the origins of the Indonesian national army', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 166 189-217 (2010) [C1]
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2008 | Sato S, 'The intra-Asian trade in Japanese copper by the Dutch East India Company during the eighteenth century', Bijdragen Tot De Taal- Land- En Volkenkunde, 164 342-344 (2008) [C3] | |||||||
2006 |
Sato S, 'Indonesia 1939-1942: Prelude to the Japanese occupation', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 37 225-248 (2006) [C1]
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2005 | Sato S, 'Nations, individuals and morality in a world at war', Forum, N/A online (2005) [C3] | |||||||
2003 |
Sato S, 'Forced labour mobilization in Java during the Second World War 96-109 (2003)
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2003 | Sato S, 'Sharing the Blame: Subbas Chandra Bose and the Japanese Occupation of the Andamans, 1942-45', Journal of Asian Studies, 62 571-572 (2003) [C3] | |||||||
2003 |
Sato S, 'Forced Labour Mobilization in Java during the Second World War', Slavery and Abolition, 24 97-110 (2003) [C1]
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Review (10 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2012 |
Li H, Zhou X, Chen C, Huang Y, Bao L, Bao T, et al., 'Preface', Applied Mechanics and Materials (2012)
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2010 | Sato S, 'The PETA', The Encyclopaedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War (2010) [D1] | ||||
2010 | Sato S, 'History and memories of the birth of the PETA', The Encyclopaedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War (2010) [D2] | ||||
2010 | Sato S, 'Various terms for a comfort woman', The Encyclopaedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War (2010) [D2] | ||||
2010 | Sato S, 'Romusha: Introduction', The Encyclopaedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War (2010) [D2] | ||||
2010 | Sato S, 'Relocation of labor and the romusha issue', The Encyclopaedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War (2010) [D1] | ||||
2010 | Sato S, 'Economic life in villages and towns', The Encyclopaedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War (2010) [D1] | ||||
2010 | Sato S, 'Administrative changes in Java', The Encyclopaedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War (2010) [D1] | ||||
2006 | Wriggers P, Nackenhorst U, 'Preface', Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics (2006) [C3] | ||||
2002 | Sato S, 'Nicholas Tarling. A Sudden Rampage: the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945', Asian Studies Review (2002) [D1] | ||||
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Conference (16 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2014 | Sato S, 'Labour and justice in wartime Southeast Asia: A new approach', Justice or reality: The post-war treatment of the WWII Japan's labor draft history in East and Southeast Asia, Seoul (2014) [E2] | ||||
2014 | Sato S, 'Japanese Imperialist War and Forced Labor in Southeast Asia', The Evaluation of the Past Studies on the World War II Japan's labor draft history, Seoul (2014) [E2] | ||||
2014 | Sato S, 'Colonisation and decolonisation of Indonesia, 1595-2014', International Conference on Global Trends and Challenges in Liquidating Colonial Responsibility, Seoul (2014) [E2] | ||||
2006 |
Sato SS, 'Forced labourers and their resistance in Java under Japanese military rule, 1942-45' (2006) [E2]
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2000 | Sato S, 'Emperor Worship and Language Teaching in Java under the Japanese Occupation', Coloniality, Postcoloniality and Modernity in Japan, Melbourne University (2000) [E1] | ||||
1999 | Sato S, 'The Famine in North Vietnam, 1944-1945', Language, Literature, Culture - A Selection of Papers Presented at Inter-Cultural Studies '98, Newcastle, Australia (1999) [E2] | ||||
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Other (2 outputs)
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2011 |
Yuce MR, Khan JY, 'Preface', (2011) [D2]
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2004 |
Sato S, 'Indonesia 1939-1942: Prelude to Japanese Occupation', IIAS Newsletter ( issue.34). Singapore: Singapore University Press (2004) [O1]
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 11 |
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Total funding | $110,572 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20141 grants / $90,000
Violence Studies$90,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Professor Philip Dwyer, Associate Professor Hans Lukas Kieser, Professor Roger Markwick, Doctor Lisa Featherstone, Doctor Michael Ondaatje, Doctor Shigeru Sato, Doctor Matthew Lewis |
Scheme | Research Programme 2014 |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | G1400927 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20071 grants / $1,700
Sex, Power and Slavery: The Dynamics of Carnal Relations under Enslavement, Indian Ocean Workd Centre, McGill University, Montreal, 19/4/2007 - 21/4/2007$1,700
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Shigeru Sato |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2007 |
GNo | G0187396 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20051 grants / $1,215
ICAS4 (The Fourth International Convention of Asian Scholars), 20-24 August 2005$1,215
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Shigeru Sato |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2005 |
GNo | G0185542 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20041 grants / $1,400
18th IAHA The International Association of Historians of Asia Conference, 6-10 December 2004, Taiwan$1,400
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Shigeru Sato |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2004 |
Funding Finish | 2004 |
GNo | G0184801 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20021 grants / $1,517
The 11th Annual Conference of the World History Association South Korea, 15-18 August, 2002$1,517
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Shigeru Sato |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2002 |
Funding Finish | 2002 |
GNo | G0181994 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20011 grants / $1,720
Slavery, Unfree Labour & Revolt in Asia and the Indian Ocean Region, France 4-6 October 2001$1,720
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Shigeru Sato |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2001 |
Funding Finish | 2001 |
GNo | G0181206 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20001 grants / $1,616
Slave Systems in Asia and the Indian Ocean, Universityt of Avignon, France.$1,616
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Shigeru Sato |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2000 |
Funding Finish | 2000 |
GNo | G0180294 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19943 grants / $8,604
Impact of the Second World Ware on the nations of South East Asia$6,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Shigeru Sato |
Scheme | New Staff Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1994 |
Funding Finish | 1994 |
GNo | G0174671 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
The Legacy of Dutch & Japanese Rule in Indonesia: Myths and Realities - Amsterdam/Leiden 8-10 November 1994$1,052
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Shigeru Sato |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1994 |
Funding Finish | 1994 |
GNo | G0175131 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
The Legacy of Dutch & Japanese Rule in Indonesia: Myths and Realities Amsterdam/Leiden 8-10 November 1994$1,052
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Shigeru Sato |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1994 |
Funding Finish | 1994 |
GNo | G0175159 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19931 grants / $2,800
Japanese civilisation: a holistic approach to Japanese language teaching$2,800
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Shigeru Sato |
Scheme | Teaching Committee Teaching Grants |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1993 |
Funding Finish | 1993 |
GNo | G0175928 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2015 | PhD | Memory and Violence in Aceh during the Armed Conflict 1976 - 2005 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2007 | PhD | In Search of Mother: Jungian Reading of Selected Works of Tanizaki Jun'Ichiro | PhD (Modern Languages), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2006 | PhD | Kobayashi Hideo: The Long Journey Towards Homeland, 1902 - 1945 | PhD (Modern Languages), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2005 | Masters | An Annotated Translation of the 2002 Tanka Collection Hizuke no Aru Uta (My Tanka Diary) written by Kawano Y¿ko | M Arts (Modern Languages) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2003 | PhD | An Analysis of Landscape and Character in the Works of Japanese Author Nitta Jiro | Language and Literature, University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Dr Shigeru Sato
Position
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
Japanese
Contact Details
shigeru.sato@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 8986 |
Fax | (02) 4921 8986 |
Office
Room | W225 |
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Building | Behavioral Science Building |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |