Yuki Tanaka (historian)

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Toshiyuki Tanaka (田中 利幸, Tanaka Toshiyuki, born May 26, 1949) is a Japanese historian and political critic.

Dr. Toshiyuki Tanaka was Emeritus Research Professor of History at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University before his retirement in 2015.^[1] He was a visiting professor at Birkbeck, University of London, and the Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar at the Law School, University of Melbourne.^[1]

He was a coordinator of the journal "The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus" and a member of the SVAC (Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts) research project group funded by Hamburg Institute of Social Research.^[1]

Tanaka has written extensively about

• Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II, Westview Press (1996)
  ISBN 0-8133-2718-0
• Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the US Occupation, Routledge (2001)
  ISBN 0-415-19401-6
• (co-edited with
  ISBN 1-59558-363-7

External links

• "Introducing Yuki TANAKA" Personal information in Japan Focus website
• "The Hibakusha Voice and the Future of the Anti-Nuclear Movement", lecture delivered on January 25, 2005
• "Japan admits war crimes conducted in WWII" Transcript of an interview with Prof. Tanaka on Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast August 28, 2002
• Yuki Tanaka on the Hiroshima peace movement (video) on
  YouTube
• A Proposal from Hiroshima, article by Yuki Tanaka in Digital Development Debates, July 2015.
• US Congressional Research Service's Report about Comfort Woman
• "Crime and Responsibility: War, Indiscriminate Bombing and Mass Killing" video lecture by Dr. Yuki Tanaka at the University of Chicago
• "From Hiroshima to Fukushima" video lecture by Dr. Yuki Tanaka at the Chinese University of Hong Kong