This page introduces Professor Kenji Kanno’s research highlights in the Marylka Project. It will be updated periodically as research progresses.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
– ‘Perspectives for an integral and multinational study on Jewish refugees in wartime Japan and Shanghai’, paper based on the presentation scripts of the speech at the Inauguration of Shanghai Jewish Museum international Advisory Board & International Symposium “Jewish Refugees in Shanghai: Research and Historical Memory Sharing” (October 23, 2019) and a special lecture: “Invitation to ‘Marylka Project’, an international historical and artistic project on Jewish refugees in wartime Japan and Shanghai” (October 24, 2019 at Ohel Moshe Synagogue).
– [Abstract] ‘Japan and Jewish Refugees (1940-1941) -In the Weyland-Jakubowicz family’s footprints’, Bulletin (Liberal Arts Section), no.50, Tokyo University of Science, March 2018.
– [Abstract] ‘The Arrival of Jewish Refugees to Wartime Japan as reported in the local newspaper Fukui Shinbun (Part I: 1940)’, Namal, no.22, Japanese-Jewish Friendship and Study Society in Kobe, January 2018.
– [Abstract] ‘The Arrival of Jewish Refugees to Wartime Japan as reported in the local newspaper Fukui Shinbun (Part II: 1941)’, Namal, no.23, Japanese-Jewish Friendship and Study Society in Kobe, 2019.
– [In Japanese] ‘On the Actual Number of the so-called “ Sugihara Survivors” — An Essay of Empirical Study ‘, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grants, 18KK0031 (‘ Tracing the footsteps of the Jewish refugees who sojourned in wartime Japan and Shanghai: a transboundary and multilateral research ‘), Interim Report (1) List of the refugees and their actual number, September 10, 2019
– ‘List of Jewish refugees in Japan during World War II‘, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grants, 18KK0031 (‘Tracing the footsteps of the Jewish refugees who sojourned in wartime Japan and Shanghai: a transboundary and multilateral research’), Interim Report (1) List of the refugees and their actual number, September 10, 2019
– [Abstract] ‘Relief activities for Jewish refugees in wartime Japan as seen through the JDC archives (Formative period: December 1939-June 1940)’, Namal, no.24, Japanese-Jewish Friendship and Study Society in Kobe, February 2020.
– [In Japanese] Fictional discourse of ‘Visas for Life’, Tokyo, Editorial Republica, 648p. July 2021.
– [Abstract] ‘The Jewish Society in wartime Shanghai as reported in Tairiku Shinpo (Part I: January-April 1939)‘, Bulletin (Liberal Arts Section), no.51, Tokyo University of Science, March 2019.
– [Abstract] ‘The Jewish Society in wartime Shanghai as reported in Tairiku Shinpo (Part II:May-August 1939)‘, Bulletin (Liberal Arts Section), no.52, Tokyo University of Science, March 2020.
– [Abstract] ‘The Jewish Society in wartime Shanghai as reported in Tairiku Shinpo (Part III:September 1939-February 1940)‘, Bulletin (Liberal Arts Section), no.53, Tokyo University of Science, March 2021.
– [Abstract] ‘The Jewish Society in wartime Shanghai as reported in Tairiku Shinpo (Part IV: On the unreleased movie ‘Driven People’)’, Bulletin (Liberal Arts Section), no.54, Tokyo University of Science, March 2022 [coming soon].
– [Abstract] ‘Was there a plan for Jewish extermination in Shanghai under Japanese military rule? –Around Mitsugi Shibata and Josef Meisinger’, Journal of Kyoto Association of Jewish Thought, no.9, June 2018.
– [Abstract] ‘Was there a plan for Jewish extermination in Shanghai under Japanese military rule? (continuation and conclusion) –Investigation into the unpublished documents of the Naval Captain Toshiro Saneyoshi’, Journal of Kyoto Association of Jewish Thought, no.10, 2019.
– [Abstract] ‘The Process of establishment of the Designated Area for Stateless Refugees in Shanghai -As described in the unpublished documents of the Naval Captain Toshiro Saneyoshi-‘, Journal of Kyoto Association of Jewish Thought, no.11, 2020.
– [Abstract] ‘The Aftereffects of establishment of the Designated Area for Stateless Refugees in Shanghai -As described in the unpublished documents of the Naval Captain Toshiro Saneyoshi-‘, Journal of Kyoto Association of Jewish Thought, no.12, 2021.
“The Designated Area for Stateless Refugees in Shanghai: Exploring Aftereffects Using Unpublished Documents of Captain Toshiro Saneyoshi” in The History of the Shanghai Jews: New Pathways of Research, Palgrave Macmillan, November 2022, ISBN:978-3-031-13761-7, pp.75-96
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