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Sayaka Chatani
Student, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
History
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Biography
Sayaka Chatani studies Japanese colonialism and colonial legacies in Korea and Taiwan. She was born in Takarazuka, Japan, and received her BA in international law from Sophia University in Tokyo. Coming to the US for her MA in international affairs at SIPA, Columbia, she specialized in international security policy. Upon completion she moved to Taiwan for intensive language training in Mandarin Chinese. She began a Ph.D. in political science in George Washington University, majoring in Chinese and Taiwanese politics, and identity politics. She decided to switch to history after two years of coursework, and transferred to the current program in 2007. Her major academic interest concerns militarism within society, and the ideological role of the military in sustaining the nation-state system. In preparation for her dissertation, she is studying youth mobilization by imperial powers during the first half of the twentieth century, with a special focus on Japanese imperial youth corps (Seinendan), which spread throughout the Japanese metropole and colonized Korea and Taiwan.
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