Tadashi Ishikawa

University of Central Florida

 

Member profile details

First name
Tadashi
Last name
Ishikawa
Organization
University of Central Florida
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Institutional email address
Tadashi.Ishikawa@ucf.edu
Main Field/Discipline
History of Modern Japan
Main Research/Teaching Interests
Modern Japan and its empire, gender, law, mobility, and the Cold War
Home Region
North America
Research keywords
  • Bubble Era
  • Childhood & Youth
  • Colonial Korea
  • Colonial Taiwan
  • Crime & Punishment
  • Culture
  • Diplomacy
  • Gender
  • Interwar
  • Japanese Empire
  • Law
  • Migration
  • Pan-Asianism
  • Postwar
  • Social Issues
  • US-Japan Relations
  • World War I
Bio
Tadashi Ishikawa is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. He received a Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago. Titled Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan, his book (Cambridge University Press) reveals gender in the interplay of familial and marital relationships and judicial practices in interwar Japan and colonial Taiwan with a focus on Japan’s international and colonial relations, Taiwanese masculinity, and women’s agency. He has published an article from the Journal of Women’s History.
Representative publications
Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025).

“Human Trafficking and Intra-Imperial Knowledge: Adopted Daughters, Households, and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan, 1919–1935,” Journal of Women’s History 29, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 37–60.
ORCID iD
0009-0009-0719-2416
Available for
  • Book Reviews
  • Book Talks
  • Manuscript Peer Reviews
  • Podcasts
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