Institute for Japanese Studies (IJS) has been hosting serieses of talks encompassing Japanese politics, economy, cultures and arts. With the experts from Europe, U.S. and Japan, we deliver the talks in multiple languages including Japanese, Korean and English.
We are pleased to host No.280 lecture as a part of Japan Specialist Seminars, titled “Imperial Japan's All-out War and Working Body: Science, Nation, and Gender”
* This seminar is held online only
Date: Oct 31, 2023 (Tuesday) 12:30-14:00
Venue: Zoom
- ZOOM ID : 583 289 8745
- Link : https://snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/5832898745
Lecturer : Sugyeong Hong (洪秀京), Assistant Professor, Department of International Relation,Tsuda University
Title : Imperial Japan's All-out War and Working Body: Science, Nation, and Gender
In 1921, the Kurashiki Labor Science Institute, which started as a new large-scale factory-site research institute for Kurashiki Spinning (倉敷紡績) Co., Ltd., established a wide range of research agendas, including labor physiology, industrial psychology, urban/rural hygiene, household economy and nutrition, under the banner of scientifically studying all kinds of human labor. Led by physiologist Kito Teruoka (暉峻義等, 1889-1966), the institute moved to Tokyo in early 1937, shortly before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, and after relaunching as the "Japan Labor Science Institute", it actively responded to the all-out labor mobilization policy in terms of human science. This study interprets labor science research as part of wartime rationalization planning that focuses on wartime social transformation and its postwar continuity, and focuses on the pattern of intervening in the formation of the boundary of the existence of a working "people" in the industrial era.
Language : Korean
Inquiry : SNU-IJS (880-8503 / ijs@snu.ac.kr)
