Dr Chris Aldous 

Principal Lecturer in Japanese History 

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences  

chris.aldous@winchester.ac.uk  

01962 827318 

University of Winchester
Sparkford Road
Winchester SO22 4NR

Biography

Chris has a BA in Modern History (1st Class) from Sheffield University and a PhD from the LSE, titled Resisting Reform: Police and Society in Occupation Japan (1945-52). He taught history at the University of Derby from 1992 to 1993 before taking up a lectureship in modern Japanese history at the University of Winchester. He has written extensively on the post-war occupations of mainland Japan (1945-52) and Okinawa (1945-72) and is currently working on the environmental history of the early post-war period.

Expertise

Modern Japanese history

Publications

Books

Reforming public health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52: alien prescriptions? London: Routledge, 2012. Co-authored by Akihito Suzuki

The police in Occupation Japan: control, corruption and resistance to reform, London: Routledge, 1997

Articles and chapters in edited collections

‘Contesting famine: hunger and nutrition in Occupied Japan, 1945-52, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 17 (3), 2010, 230-56

'Transforming public health? A critical review of progress made against enteric diseases during the American-led Occupation of Japan (1945-52)', Nihon Ishigaku Zasshi. Journal of Japanese History of Medicine, 54 (1), 2008, 3-17 http://ukpmc.ac.uk/articlerender.cgi?accid=pmcA2746355

'Typhus in Occupied Japan, 1945-46: an epidemiological study', Japanese Studies, 26 (3), December 2006, 317-33

'Achieving reversion: protest and authority in Okinawa, 1952-70', Modern Asian Studies, 37 (2), June 2003, 485-508

'"Mob" rule or popular activism? The Koza riot of 1970 and the Okinawan search for citizenship'. In Glenn D. Hook and Richard Siddle (eds), Japan and Okinawa: structure and subjectivity, London: Routledge, 2003, 148-66

'Masking or marking Britain's decline? The British Council and cultural diplomacy in Japan, 1952-70', in G. Daniels and C. Tsuzuki (eds), The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600 - 2000, Volume 5: Social and Cultural Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, 3330-51

'Eikoku suibo o kakusu kamenka sono kokuinka - Nihon ni okeru Buritishu Kaunshiru no bunka gaiko (1952-70)' [translation of article above], in G. Daniels and C. Tsuzuki, Nichiei koryushi 1600 - 2000, 5 shakai bunka, University of Tokyo Press, 2001, 295-316

'Surfing the crime net: crime and criminal justice in Japan', Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, October 2000, 61-67; 4,000 word review of internet sites on crime and policing in Japan

'Enigma variations: reassessing the koban', Nissan Occasional Paper Series, No. 31, July 2000. Joint authorship with Frank Leishman.

Forthcoming

‘A dearth of animal protein: reforming nutrition in Occupied Japan (1945-52)’, in K. Cwiertka (ed.), Food and War in Twentieth Century East Asia, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012

Learning and teaching projects

2000 - 2002 With Professor Michael Hicks, A survey of source-based work in History in higher education. Funded by LTSN Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology

Recent reviews

Ann Jannetta, The Vaccinators: smallpox, medical knowledge and the 'opening' of Japan, for Social History of Medicine, 22.2, August 2009

Other

Interview for BBC Radio 4 programme Tiger Tales on post-war Okinawa, broadcast 31 May 2004

Research Interests

The post-war occupations of Japan (1945-52) and Okinawa (1945-72), particularly with regard to public health and welfare and environmental issues.

Supervision of research students

Second supervisor for Simon Young (full-time: February 2012- ) The 1980 Moscow Olympics

Director of Studies for Tom French (full-time: February 2006 -  2010), Rearmament, the Cold War and the history of the National Police Reserve 1948-1952: 'de facto army' or supplementary police force?

Director of Studies for Andrea Harris (full-time: April 2005 - October 2009), Venereal disease in the British military through conflict and reconstruction, 1939-50. Awarded, subject to modest changes, on 22 October 2009

Second supervisor for Mary South (part-time: Sept 2005 - 2010), The Southampton smallpox inoculation campaigns of the eighteenth century

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Memberships

  • 2011 - , International Editorial Board, Japan Forum
  • 2008 - 2011, reviews editor for Japan Forum
  • 1997 - 2001, committee member of Japan Foundation Endowment Committee, a funding body for Japanese Studies
  • 1994 - , British Association for Japanese Studies

External research grants

  • 1 February 2010 - 31 January 2011: research leave awarded by Wellcome Trust. Included research expenses for trips to Tokyo and Stanford
  • 1 April - 31 December 2007: research expenses provided by the Wellcome Trust for archival work in Tokyo and London
  • March 2001: research trip to Naha, Okinawa, funded by Japan Foundation Endowment Committee