Background
Goto, Ken'ichi was born on March 30, 1943 in Tokyo. Son of Motomi and Yumi Goto.
( Beginning with the closing decade of European colonial ...)
Beginning with the closing decade of European colonial rule in Southeast Asia and covering the wartime Japanese empire and its postwar disintegration, Tensions of Empire focuses on the Japanese in Southeast Asia, Indonesians in Japan, and the legacy of the war in Southeast Asia. It also examines Japanese perceptions of Southeast Asia and the lingering ambivalence toward Japanese involvement in Asia and toward the war in particular. Drawing on extensive multilingual archival research and interviews, Ken'ichi Goto has produced a factually rich and balanced view of this region's historical events of the last century. Tensions of Empire features detailed discussions of Portuguese Timor in the 1930s and 1940s, the decolonization of Malaya, and twentieth-century Indonesia. This extended inquiry yields a unique view of the complicated network within and beyond the colonial and imperial relationships between a one-time nonwestern colonial power and an entire region. Of great interest to students of Japan-Southeast Asia relations and to specialists in the modern history of both Southeast Asia and Japan, Professor Goto's Tensions of Empire is a fascinating account of Japan's recent past from the inside.
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Goto, Ken'ichi was born on March 30, 1943 in Tokyo. Son of Motomi and Yumi Goto.
Bachelor in Political Science, Waseda University, Tokyo, 1965. Master of Arts in Government, Cornell University, 1971. Dr in Political Science, Keio (Japan) University, 1996.
Member research staff, Institute Developing Economies, Tokyo, 1965-1973; member of faculty Institute Social Sciences, Waseda U., since 1973; professor, Waseda U., since 1981; director Institute Social Sciences, Waseda U., 1993-1997; dean Graduate School Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda U., since 1998.
( Beginning with the closing decade of European colonial ...)
Member Japan Association for Asian Political and Economic Studies (board directors since 1989), International House of Japan (board directors since 2001), Japan Society for Southeast Asia History (president 1996-1997), International Association Historians of Asia (vice president 1995-1998).
Married Kayo Nagata, February 7, 1970. Children: Sawaka, Motoyuki.