Ray Matsumoto
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Biography
Ray Matsumoto is a first-year PhD student in the Japan field, focusing on issues of war memory, war guilt and responsibility, and deimperialization during the postwar era.
Subfield
War memory, war guilt and responsibility, sexual and gender-based violence, postcolonialism, decolonization and deimperialization, diasporic studies.
Conference Presentations
- “The 1958 Komatsugawa Incident: Confronting Ethnic Responsibilities through Zainichi Korean Narratives.” WSU History Graduate Student Association Conference, Pullman, WA, 2025.
- “Drawing Parallels: Graphic Novels on Third-Generational Memory of the Holocaust and Japanese American Incarceration.” Northwest Holocaust Student Research Workshop, Moscow, ID, 2025.
- “The Moral Economy of Abandonment: Popular Films and Texts on the Abandoned Japanese Settlers in Manchuria and Zainichi Koreans in Japan.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, 2025.
- “An Analysis of Japanese Identity and Collective War Memory through the Japanese Settlers Abandoned in Manchuria.” Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, 2024.
