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Personal profile
Key Research Interests
Nadine's PhD research focused on early twentieth century anarchism in a transnational perspective and the history of social movements in rural Japan.
Other research interests include proletarian literature, the history of ethnography and the development of human geography during Japan’s rapid modernization era, with a particular focus on Japan’s encounter with French radical geography. She published in 2017 a book of annotated translations of 1930s anarchist poetry from Japan’s rural north.
Her current project examines the military experience of rank-and-file soldiers during Japan's Siberian Intervention of 1918-1922 through pictorial and written diaries.
Academic Background
Nadine Willems is an intellectual and cultural historian of Japan. She joined UEA in 2016 after completing postgraduate studies in Oxford. She teaches modules on the modern history of Japan for the School of History. Prior to returning to academia in 2008 she was based in Tokyo where she worked for several years in business and as a foreign correspondent and journalist.
Projects
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The Siberian Diaries of Japanese Soldiers (1918-1922)
Japan Foundation Endowment Committee
1/02/22 → 31/05/22
Project: Research
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Journeys to the North: "Chekhovian Undercurrent" in Japanese Poetry of the 1920s
Willems, N., Jan 2021, Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm. Solovieva, O. V. & Konishi, S. (eds.). Cambria PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Ishikawa Sanshirō's Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Willems, N., 30 Sep 2020, Leiden University Press. (Critical, Connected Histories)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Transnational anarchism, Japanese revolutionary connections, and the personal politics of exile
Willems, N., Sep 2018, In: Historical Journal. 61, 3, p. 719-741 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kotan Chronicles: Selected Poems 1928-1943
Genzō, S. & Willems, N. (Translator), Jun 2017, Tokyo & London: Isobar Press. 108 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Contesting Imperial Geography: Reading Elisée Reclus in 1930s' Hokkaido
Willems, N., Sep 2016, The Practice of Freedom: Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of Revolt. White, R. J., Springer, S. & Lopes de Souza, M. (eds.). Rowman and Littlefield InternationalResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review