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INOUE Fumi
Historical StudiesAssociate Professor
Liberal Arts

  • E-Mail:finouemail.saitama-u.ac.jp

Researcher information

■ Research Keyword
  • Transimperial history
  • Diplomatic history
  • Transnational history
■ Field Of Study
  • Humanities & social sciences, History - Europe/America, U.S. diplomatic history
  • Humanities & social sciences, History - Japan
  • Humanities & social sciences, History - General, The Okinawa-Japan-U.S. relationship
■ Career
  • Apr. 2025 - Present, Saitama University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2025, Hosei University, Japan
  • Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2023, Ritsumeikan University, The Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of International Relations and Area Studies, Visiting research fellow
  • Jan. 2018 - Aug. 2018, Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Research fellow, Japan
  • Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2018, The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Graduate Fellow, United States
  • Feb. 2017 - Jul. 2017, Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Research fellow, Japan
■ Educational Background
  • Sep. 2013 - May 2021, Boston College, Doctoral program in history, Department of History, United States
  • Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2010, Waseda University, School of International Liberal Studies, Japan
  • Sep. 2007 - May 2008, The University of Maryland, U.S.A., United States
■ Member History
  • May 2017 - Apr. 2019
    Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Graduate Committee, Society
■ Award
  • Dec. 2023, International Convention of Asian Scholars Book Prize 2023 (English Language Edition Humanities Dissertations Chairwoman’s Accolade), The Politics of Extraterritoriality in Post-Occupation Japan and U.S.-Occupied Okinawa, 1952-1972, Ph.D. Dissertation (Boston College, 2021), International Convention of Asian Scholars
    International academic award
  • Nov. 2023, 第10回(令和5年度)研究助成
  • Apr. 2023, 特定課題研究助成費(アーリーキャリア支援)
  • Sep. 2022, 2022 Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects, Waseda University
  • Sep. 2019, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Boston College
  • Jul. 2018, Manning-Gelfand Summer Research Fellowship, Boston College
  • Sep. 2017, Graduate Fellowship, September 2017-May 2018 (Research Stipend), The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College
  • Jul. 2017, Summer Research Grant, Department of History, Boston College
  • Jan. 2017, Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Travel Grant, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
  • Jul. 2016, Summer Research Grant, Department of History, Boston College
  • May 2016, 2016 Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research Fellowship, May 24-27, 2016, The Woodrow Wilson Center, George Washington University
  • Jul. 2014, Manning-Gelfand Summer Research Fellowship, Boston College
  • May 2014, 2014 Nuclear History Boot Camp fellowship, May 19-22, 2014, The Woodrow Wilson Center, The University of Rome Tre, and The Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, Italy
    Italy

Performance information

■ Paper
  • Japanese Solidarity with U.S.-Occupied Okinawa in the 1950s: Historical Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Reversion of Okinawa to Japan               
    Fumi Inoue
    The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume:20, Number:10, May 2022, [Reviewed], [Invited], [International magazine]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Higa Thomas Taro and World War II: Race, War Collaboration, and Okinawa               
    Fumi Inoue
    First page:20, Last page:32, Mar. 2022, [Domestic magazine]
    International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japanese, Symposium
  • Rethinking the Power of the Voiceless: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Birth of Popular Human Rights Activism in Occupied Okinawa               
    Fumi Inoue
    The Voiced and Voiceless in Asia, First page:235, Last page:261, 2022, [Reviewed]
    English, In book
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.5507/ff.23.24462691.09
    DOI ID:10.5507/ff.23.24462691.09
  • The Politics of Extraterritoriality in Post-Occupation Japan and U.S.-Occupied Okinawa, 1952-1972 (Ph.D. dissertation, Boston College)               
    Fumi Inoue
    May 2021
  • Thomas Taro Higa and Nisei Soldiers in the English-language Scholarship: A Historiographical Inquiry               
    Fumi Inoue
    May 2021
    Japanese
■ MISC
  • Uniquely Okinawan: Determining Identity During the U.S. Wartime Occupation by Courtney A. Short (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020)               
    Fumi Inoue
    The Journal of Military History, Volume:85, Number:1, First page:261, Last page:263, Jan. 2021
    English, Book review
  • “Public Debates about American Military Justice in 1950s Okinawa and Mainland Japan: Reflecting on the 1955 Yumiko-chan Case and the 1957 Girard Case through the Lens of Japan-U.S.-Okinawa Relations               
    Fumi Inoue
    Journal of Ohara Institute for Social Research, Number:722, First page:108, Dec. 2018
    Japanese, Summary national conference
  • Report for the 2017 Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Travel Grant               
    Fumi Inoue
    Passport: The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, Volume:49, Number:1, First page:75, Apr. 2018, [International magazine]
    English, Report scientific journal
■ Books and other publications
  • The Voiced and Voiceless in Asia               
    [Contributor], Rethinking the Power of the Voiceless: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Birth of Popular Human Rights Activism in Occupied Okinawa
    Palacký University Olomouc, 2022, [Reviewed]
    Forthcoming
■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • アジアにおける軍事化された民主化の重層構造――カーター政権の人権外交とポスト1972基地の島における人権をめぐるポリティックスの展開――               
    井上史
    Feb. 2025
    Japanese, Invited oral presentation
  • 在沖米軍人性暴力事件に対する抗議運動の現代的位相を歴史化する ——基地とジェンダーの交錯をめぐる研究史との対話をつうじて——               
    井上史
    Feb. 2025
    Japanese, Oral presentation
  • 冷戦、脱植民地化、日米トランスイペリアルヒストリーのなかの沖縄               
    井上 史
    Oct. 2024
    Oral presentation
  • 日米間帝国史における現代沖縄の位置づけ——冷戦期沖日米関係と第三世界の思想的交錯に関する実証課題の検討を中心に               
    井上史
    Feb. 2024
  • きのこ雲の下で繰り広げられた歴史から下からの外交史研究へ               
    井上 史
    Dec. 2023, [International conference]
  • コメント「合評会 長史隆『「地球社会」時代の日米関係―「友好的競争」から「同盟」へ 1970-1980年』(有志舎、2022年)」               
    Dec. 2023
  • 1950年代初期における米軍の対日刑事裁判権政策 日米行政協定第17条改定と国連軍地位協定交渉               
    井上 史
    Nov. 2023
    Japanese
  • Nationalism, Human Rights, and Reconciliation: The Specter of Extraterritoriality and the Philosophies of Resistance in Twentieth-century Okinawa and Japan               
    Reconciliation Studies Summer School, Aug. 2023
    English, Oral presentation
  • 講和後日本「従属独立」に対する異議申し立ての原風景―日米行政協定第17条と帝国的主権をめぐるポリティックス               
    井上 史
    Jan. 2023
    Oral presentation
  • Historicizing the "Okinawa Problem:" An Inquiry into the 50th Anniversary of the Reversion of Okinawa to Japan               
    Fumi Inoue
    Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geopolitical Perspective, Mar. 2022, The University of California, Santa Cruz, [International conference]
    English, Invited oral presentation, United States
  • The American Military Presence in Okinawa: Historicizing the Locals' Human Rights Activism and Struggles against the Japan-U.S. SOFA               
    Fumi Inoue
    Jan. 2022
    Japanese, Invited oral presentation
  • Thomas Taro Higa and World War II: Race, War Collaboration and Okinawa               
    Fumi Inoue
    Nov. 2021
    Japanese, Nominated symposium
  • トーマス太郎研究の意義および課題の検討 英語圏の歴史研究との対話を通じて               
    井上 史
    Jun. 2021, [Domestic conference]
    Japanese, Oral presentation, Japan
  • The Postwar American Military Legal Regime of Exception               
    Fumi Inoue
    Online Workshop: The Social Landscapes of American Military Bases, Jun. 2021, [International conference]
    Japanese, Oral presentation
  • Connecting the Cold War Island and the Third World: The ‘Okinawa Problem’ and Japanese Lawyers’ Human Rights Activism in 1955               
    Fumi Inoue
    The Virtual Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Mar. 2021, [International conference]
    English, Public symposium
    The Panel “Pacifism, Huma Rights, Popular Movement, and ‘History Activism’: The ‘Postwar’ as a Transnational Space”
  • Uneven Trajectories of the American Military Presence: Negotiating Violence, Civilization, and Resistance in Cold War Japan and Okinawa               
    Fumi Inoue
    The Panel “Exporting Masculinity and Violence: Americans Abroad in the Twentieth Century," The 2020 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference (Online), Jun. 2020, [International conference]
    English, Oral presentation
    新型コロナウィルス感染拡大のためオンラインによるパネル報告会に変更
  • “Re-thinking 1955 U.S.-Occupied Okinawa: Crossings and Conjectures between Resistance to Extraterritoriality and Discourse on the Protection of Human Rights               
    Fumi Inoue
    Oct. 2019
    Japanese, Oral presentation
  • Re-narrating 1950s Okinawa: Military Extraterritoriality and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights               
    Fumi Inoue
    The 2019 European Association of Japanese Studies Conference (The Third EAJS Conference in Japan), Sep. 2019, The European Association of Japanese Studies, [International conference]
    Japanese, Oral presentation, Tsukuba University, Japan
  • American Military Justice in Post-Occupation Japan and Occupied-Okinawa: Transpacific Debates on Postwar Extraterritoriality and the 1950s Base Politics               
    Fumi Inoue
    The 2018 Association of Asian Studies New England Regional Conference, Oct. 2018, [International conference]
    English, Brandeis University, United States
  • 1950年代の沖縄および日本本土における米軍司法をめぐる議論―「由美子ちゃん事件」と「ジラード事件」にみる日米沖関係史               
    井上 史
    Jul. 2018, [Domestic conference]
    Japanese, Japan
  • The Making of the American Military Regime of Exception in Post-Occupation Japan               
    Fumi Inoue
    The 2018 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Jun. 2018, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, [International conference]
    English, Oral presentation, Philadelphia, U.S.A., United States
  • American Military Justice in Postwar Japan, 1952-Present: The Specter of Extraterritoriality and the Contesting Visions of Sovereignty and National Security               
    Fumi Inoue
    Okinawan Cultural Studies in Tokyo, Mar. 2018, [Domestic conference]
    Japanese, Oral presentation, Waseda University, Japan
  • Seeking Sovereignty and Finding Extraterritoriality: The Birth of American Military Justice in Postwar Japan               
    Fumi Inoue
    Dec. 2017, The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, [International conference]
    English, Oral presentation, Boston College, United States
  • The Yumiko-chan Incident: The 1955 Rape Murder of An Okinawan Girl that Triggered Okinawans’ Early Resistance to GI Crime               
    Fumi Inoue
    The Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Mar. 2015, Association for Asian Studies, [International conference]
    English, Public symposium, Chicago, United States
■ Teaching experience
  • Apr. 2025 - Present
    日本近代史 I
  • Apr. 2025 - Present
    Modern Japanese History, Saitama University, Faculty of Liberal Arts
  • Apr. 2025 - Present
    アメリカ社会概論
  • Apr. 2024 - Present
    ライティング&リサーチ・スキル(早稲田大学アジア太平洋研究科)
  • Apr. 2025
    Seminar in the History of U.S.-Japan Relations
  • Oct. 2024 - Jan. 2025
    Japan's Experiences in International Cooperation: In Support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Waseda University
  • Oct. 2024 - Jan. 2025
    Modern History of Japan, The University of Tokyo
  • Sep. 2024 - Jan. 2025
    日米関係論II(法政大学法学部政治学科)
  • Apr. 2024 - Jul. 2024
    「日米関係論I」(法政大学法学部政治学科)
  • Oct. 2023 - Jan. 2024
    Writing and Research Skills, The Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
  • Sep. 2023 - Jan. 2024
    Japan-U.S. Relations II, Hosei University
  • Nov. 2023
    日越大学インターンシップ(経済産業省・国土交通省研修、水俣市研修), Waseda University
  • Apr. 2023 - Aug. 2023
    Japan's Development Experiences in the International Context, Waseda University
  • Apr. 2023 - Jul. 2023
    The Japan-U.S. Relationship I, Hosei University
  • Nov. 2022 - Feb. 2023
    Graduate Seminar: Understanding Contemporary Japan, The Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
  • Dec. 2022
    総合講座 沖縄を考えるB
  • Jan. 2019 - May 2019
    Asia in the World II Discussion, Department of History (TA), Boston College, Undergraduate liberal arts
  • Sep. 2018 - Dec. 2018
    Asia in the World I Dicussion, Department of History (TA), Boston College, Undergraduate liberal arts
  • Sep. 2017 - Dec. 2017
    Atlantic World I Discussion, Department of History (TA), Boston College, Undergraduate liberal arts
  • Jan. 2016 - May 2016
    Asia in the World II Discussion, Department of History (TA), Boston College, Undergraduate liberal arts
  • Sep. 2015 - Dec. 2015
    Asia in the World I Discussion, Department of History (TA), Boston College, Undergraduate liberal arts
  • Jan. 2015 - May 2015
    Latin America in the World II Discussion, Department of History (TA), Boston College, Undergraduate liberal arts
  • Sep. 2014 - Dec. 2014
    Latin America in the World I Discussion, Department of History (TA), Boston College, Undergraduate liberal arts
■ Affiliated academic society
  • May 2022 - Present, The Japanese Association for American History
  • Dec. 2019 - Present, Japanese Association for Contemporaty Historical Studies
  • Jul. 2019 - Present, European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
  • Jun. 2018 - Present, Peace Studies Association of Japan
  • Sep. 2016 - Present, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
  • Mar. 2015 - Present, Association for Asian Studies
■ Research projects
  • 講和後日本および占領下沖縄における米軍刑事裁判権政策の史的展開               
    01 Apr. 2025 - 31 Mar. 2029
    Grant amount(Total):4810000, Direct funding:3700000, Indirect funding:1110000
    Grant number:25K16407
■ media coverage
  • Assisted research for the production of an NHK documentary「証言ドキュメント “沖縄返還史”」               
    Myself, NHK, 15 May 2022, [Media report]
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