Janice Matsumura received her PhD from York University in Toronto, Canada in 1994. The focus of her past research has been on the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945), including the relationship between state propaganda and medical policies. She is currently conducting a study of Japanese colonial psychiatry.

Select publications

“Unfaithful wives and dissolute labourers: Moral panic and the mobilisation of women into the Japanese workforce, 1931-45,” Gender & History, Vol. 19, No. 1 (April 2007): 78-100.

“State Propaganda and Mental Disorders: The Issue of Psychiatric Casualties among Japanese Soldiers during the Asia-Pacific War,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 78, No. 4 (Winter 2004): 804-35.

“Mental Health as Public Peace: Kaneko Junji and the Promotion of Psychiatry in Modern Japan,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4 (2004): 899-930.

More than a Momentary Nightmare: the Yokohama Incident and Wartime Japan, Ithaca, New York: Cornell East Asia Series No. 92, 1998.