Associate Professor David Chapman
Associate Professor

David Chapman

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Background

David Chapman is Associate Professor and Reader in Japanese Studies at The School of Languages and Cultures, St Lucia campus, UQ. David’s research interests include the cultural and social history of the marginalized in Japanese society, human rights in Japan and Asia, citizenship and national identity in Japan, Japan in the Anthropocene and surveillance and the law in Japan.

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Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Education, Deakin University
  • Masters (Coursework) of Applied Linguistics, Macquarie University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Curtin University of Technology

Research interests

  • The marginalised in Japanese society (日本社会における疎外された人々)

    I have been privileged to work with many communities in Japan including the Korean Communities, Ogasawara Island descendants of Pacific Islander, European and American settlers, unregistered residents of Japan and Ryukyu Island communities. My interests also extend to social dimensions of gender, socio-economic status, legal status and linguistic background that often overlap with diverse ethnic heritage. 私は、在日韓国人コミュニティや、太平洋諸島の出身者、ヨーロッパ系、アメリカ系の先祖を持つ小笠原諸島の人々、未登録住民、琉球諸島のコミュニティを含む、日本の多くのコミュニティと共に活動する機会に恵まれてきました。また、私の関心は、性別、社会経済的地位、法的地位、言語的背景といった社会的側面にも及び、これらはしばしば多様な民族的な背景と重なり合っています。

  • Disaster and the Anthropocene in Japan (日本における災害と人新世)

    My latest work focuses on the Anthropocene in the Japanese context. In particular, I am interested in local culture/tradition and the human connection with the natural world in relation to disaster prevention. Disaster culture (防災文化) and (災害文化). 私の最新の研究は、日本の文脈における人新世に焦点を当てています。特に、災害予防に関連する地域の文化や伝統、そして人間と自然界のつながりに興味があります。「防災文化」や「災害文化」といったテーマも探求しています。

  • Legal/non-legal Status in Japan (日本における法的・非法的な地位)

    I have researched how people are identified legally, socially and bureaucratically in Japan. In particular, I have a keen interest in the Family Registration system (the koseki 戸籍), Special Permanent Residents (特別永住者), unregistered (無戸籍者) and the Residency Registry (住民票). This research includes historical as well as contemporary contexts. 私は、日本における人々の法的、社会的、そして官僚的な身分の識別方法について研究してきました。特に、戸籍制度（koseki）、特別永住者、無戸籍者、および住民票に強い関心を持っています。この研究には、歴史的な文脈だけでなく、現代的な背景も含まれています。

Search Professor David Chapman’s works on UQ eSpace

52 works between 1997 and 2024
All (52) Journal Article (31) Book Chapter (15) Conference Publication (1) Book (4) Edited Outputs (1)

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Featured

2022

Book Chapter

History and the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands: connecting Japan and the Pacific

Chapman, David (2022). History and the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands: connecting Japan and the Pacific. Routledge handbook of race and ethnicity in Asia. (pp. 381-392) edited by Michael Weiner. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351246705-30

History and the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands: connecting Japan and the Pacific

Featured

2022

Book Chapter

Meiji and the Bonin Islands

Chapman, David (2022). Meiji and the Bonin Islands. Revisiting Japan's Restoration. (pp. 109-116) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003207771-17

Meiji and the Bonin Islands

2024

Journal Article

Gender and family values among japanese migrants in Australia: marital surnaming

Toyoda, Etsuuko, Oishi, Nana and Chapman, David (2024). Gender and family values among japanese migrants in Australia: marital surnaming. Japanese Studies, 44 (2), 1-23. doi: 10.1080/10371397.2024.2348503

Gender and family values among japanese migrants in Australia: marital surnaming

2023

Journal Article

Mixed Japanese identities and multiculturalism

Wilkinson, Aoife and Chapman, David (2023). Mixed Japanese identities and multiculturalism. Japan Forum, 36 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2023.2268089

Mixed Japanese identities and multiculturalism

2021

Journal Article

Visualising Korea: Critical Moments in History, Society and Politics

Bleiker, Roland, Chapman, David and Shim, David (2021). Visualising Korea: Critical Moments in History, Society and Politics. Asian Studies Review, 45 (3), 374-380. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2021.1937836

Visualising Korea: Critical Moments in History, Society and Politics

2021

Journal Article

Visualising Korea: the politics of the statue of peace

Chapman, David (2021). Visualising Korea: the politics of the statue of peace. Asian Studies Review, 45 (3), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2020.1840511

Visualising Korea: the politics of the statue of peace

2020

Journal Article

Silences: the Catholics, the untouchables and the Nagasaki atomic bomb

McClelland, Gwyn and Chapman, David (2020). Silences: the Catholics, the untouchables and the Nagasaki atomic bomb. Asian Studies Review, 44 (3), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2019.1692783

Silences: the Catholics, the untouchables and the Nagasaki atomic bomb

2020

Book Chapter

Gender and the Koseki

Chapman, David (2020). Gender and the Koseki. The Routledge companion to gender and Japanese culture. (pp. 83-91) edited by Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser and Mark Pendleton. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315179582-9

Gender and the Koseki

2020

Book Chapter

Japan in Australia, an introduction

Chapman, David and Hayes, Carol (2020). Japan in Australia, an introduction. Japan in Australia: culture, context and connection. (pp. 4-24) edited by David Chapman and Carol Hayes. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429196485-2

Japan in Australia, an introduction

2020

Book

Japan in Australia : Culture, Context and Connections

Chapman, David and Hayes, Carol eds. (2020). Japan in Australia : Culture, Context and Connections. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429196485

Japan in Australia : Culture, Context and Connections

2019

Journal Article

Family matters: Nippon Kaigi and keeping things normal

Toyoda, Etsuko and Chapman, David (2019). Family matters: Nippon Kaigi and keeping things normal. Japanese Studies, 39 (3), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/10371397.2019.1646097

Family matters: Nippon Kaigi and keeping things normal

2018

Journal Article

Divided fates: the state, race, and Korean immigrants' adaptation in Japan and the United States by Kazuko Suzuki

Chapman, David (2018). Divided fates: the state, race, and Korean immigrants' adaptation in Japan and the United States by Kazuko Suzuki. The Journal of Japanese Studies, 44 (2), 473-477. doi: 10.1353/jjs.2018.0065

Divided fates: the state, race, and Korean immigrants' adaptation in Japan and the United States by Kazuko Suzuki

2018

Journal Article

Article 772 and Japan's unregistered

Chapman, David (2018). Article 772 and Japan's unregistered. Japan Forum, 31 (3), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2018.1461676

Article 772 and Japan's unregistered

2017

Journal Article

Claiming the Bonin Islands: Captain Beechey's plaque

Chapman, David (2017). Claiming the Bonin Islands: Captain Beechey's plaque. The Journal of Pacific History, 52 (4), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2017.1410600

Claiming the Bonin Islands: Captain Beechey's plaque

2017

Journal Article

Resistance and reform: discourses on marital law in Japan

Toyoda, Etsuko and Chapman, David (2017). Resistance and reform: discourses on marital law in Japan. Japan Forum, 29 (4), 470-495. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2017.1365748

Resistance and reform: discourses on marital law in Japan

2017

Journal Article

Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan by Christopher Bondy

Chapman, David (2017). Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan by Christopher Bondy. Social Science Japan Journal, 20 (1), 1-3. doi: 10.1093/ssjj/jyx005

Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan by Christopher Bondy

2017

Journal Article

Britain and the Bonins: discovery, recovery and reclamation

Chapman, David (2017). Britain and the Bonins: discovery, recovery and reclamation. Japan Forum, 29 (2), 154-179. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2016.1244215

Britain and the Bonins: discovery, recovery and reclamation

2016

Book Chapter

Identifying and defining self in a changing Japan

Chapman, David (2016). Identifying and defining self in a changing Japan. Japan's demographic revival: rethinking migration, identity and sociocultural norms. (pp. 63-80) edited by Stephen Robert Nagy. Singapore: World Scientific Publishers. doi: 10.1142/9789814678889_0004

Identifying and defining self in a changing Japan

2016

Book

The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the present: narrating Japanese nationality

Chapman, David (2016). The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the present: narrating Japanese nationality. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.

The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the present: narrating Japanese nationality

2015

Journal Article

Suburban Samurai and neighbourhood Ninja: Shintaro and postwar Australia

Chapman, David (2015). Suburban Samurai and neighbourhood Ninja: Shintaro and postwar Australia. Japanese Studies, 35 (3), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10371397.2015.1118619

Suburban Samurai and neighbourhood Ninja: Shintaro and postwar Australia

Past funding

  • 2021 - 2022
    Sustainability, Longevity and Mobility
    The Japan Foundation
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2020
    Alexander Marks: Adventurer, businessman and Japan's first Consul in Australia
    Queensland Program for Japanese Education
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Using Technology to Enhance Authentic Contexts: Effective and Exciting Approaches to Assessment in the Japanese Language Classroom
    Queensland Program for Japanese Education
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Japan in Australia
    The Japan Foundation, Sydney
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2016
    Japan's invisible citizens
    Queensland Program for Japanese Education
    Open grant

Availability

Associate Professor David Chapman is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Japan in Australia

    Japan has long been part of the social, cultural, political and historical landscape of Australia; compared with other Asian nations, it occupies a significant part of this space. However, in recent years, countries such as China and South Korea have become more visible, removing Japan from its position as Australia’s leading trading partner in Asia. Although the Japan-Australia relationship has been widely discussed, much less discourse has focused on Japan’s place within Australia and within the nation’s social, cultural and historical landscape. Past discussion has been about earlier enmity and misunderstanding as well as more recent close relations between the two countries. With the changing dynamics of Australia’s relationship with Asia there is a need for a fresh look at Japan within Australia and how Japan has been understood and conceptualized.

  • Legal/non-legal Status and Identification in Japan

    I have researched extensively how people are identified legally, socially and bureaucratically in Japan. In particular, I have a keen interest in the Family Registration system (the koseki 戸籍), Special Permanent Residents (特別永住者), unregistered (無戸籍者) and the Resdients Registry (住民票). This research includes historical as well as contemporary contexts.

  • Marginalised Communities

    I have been privledged to work with many communities in Japan including the Korean Communities, Ogasawara Island descendants of Pacific Islander, European and American settlers, unregistered resdients of Japan and Okinawans. My interests also extend to social dimensions of gender, socio-economic status and linguistic background that often overlap with different ethnic heritage.

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Multicultural Co-living and Five Shared Values: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Protections for Multicultural Communities in Japan and Singapore

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Ann Black

Completed supervision

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