Researcher Database - MITA MAKI | Kobe Gakuin University

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MITA MAKI

Department / Course

Kobe Gakuin University The Faculty of Humanities and Sciences Department of Humanities

Job Associate Professor

Academic background
1991～1995	Kyoto University Graduated
1995～1997	Kyoto University Finished
1997～2002	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) Kyoto University Expired with Credits Obtained
2006/01 Degree Acquisition	Kyoto University

Business career
2004 ～ 2007	Visiting Reseacher Belau National Museum
2013/03/31 ～	Associate Professor Kobe Gakuin University The Faculty of Humanities and Sciences Department of Humanities

Book and thesis
2021	Books	Memories of the Japanese Empire: Comparison of the Colonial and Decolonization Experiences in Taiwan and Nan’yō Guntō,pp.40-56 (Co-authored)
2020/07/31	Papers	Several Aspects of the Colonial Experiences of Palauan People under Japanese Rule : from the Analysis of the Religious Beliefs Humanities and Sciences,pp.35-49 (Sole-authored)
2009/10	Books	Palauan Children under Japanese Rule:Their Oral Histories(Senri Ethnological Reports 87) (Sole-authored)
2008/12	Papers	Remembering Colonial Experiences: Palauan Elders' Stories of Being Educated as Imperial People, and Being Discriminated Against as Islanders Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology,pp.81-133 (Sole-authored)
2006/11	Papers	How the Fisherman Reads the Sea and Develops Fishing Spots: Landfill and Transition of the Fishing Spots in Itoman, Okinawa Ecosophia,pp.81-94 (Sole-authored)
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Works
2005 ～	Belau National Museum展示、History and Culture during Japanese Administration Period (Belau National Museum)

Academic conference presentation
2019/11/09	Creating Futures based on Palauan Culture (seminar to commemorate diplomatic relations between Palau and Japan: dialogues for open futures)
2012/07/15	Multiple Reflections on Japanese Colonial Palau: How do we look, in Their Memories? (（international symposium）transoceania2012: Currents of Memory, Identity, and Representation Between the Islands of Japan and Oceania)
2012/04/22	Beyond ‘Our History’: Multiple Reflections on Japanese Colonial Palau (AJJ(Anthropology of Japan in Japan) Spring Workshop)

Lecturer and lecture
2025/08/29	"Palau in the Japanese administration time" through the narratives of Palauans and Okinawans

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