Join us on October 29 – in person or online – as Tadashi Ishikawa introduces Geographies of Gender, which examines the fringes of family and marriage in imperial Japan and colonial Taiwan in the 1910s through the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. The talk focuses on daughter adoption as one of the boundaries of family and marriage under study.
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026
Time: 3:30 – 5 p.m.
Location: Thomson Hall 317, University of Washington
Tadashi Ishikawa is Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. His field of research is twentieth-century global Japan with a focus on gender, empire, law, and mobility. He is an author of Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan (Cambridge University Press, 2025). The book received an honorable mention for the 2026 Book Prize by the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. He is currently working on his second book project about human and other mobilities between Cold War Japan and other parts of Asia including Taiwan in the 1960s through the 1980s and will be a visiting scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in 2027.
