Research

Presentations

Euan McKay. Japanese prisoners' cultural activities behind barbed wire. Conference: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire, McDonald Institute, The University of Cambridge, Friday 26 - Sunday 28 March 2010. (Conference website and follow-up website.)

Japanese History Group, The Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo. Euan McKay. Allied Use of Japanese Surrendered Personnel in Post-war South East Asia, 1945-1947. 2010/01/19.

現代史研究会、青山学院大学青。 Euan McKay. 「戦後東南アジアにおける日本兵：英軍占領下の収容と強制労働」2009/11/28.

Translations

Kato, Kenta. Japanese cotton spinning industry mergers and acquisitions during the Showa Depression: the case of Toyo Spinning and Osaka Godo Spinning. Japanese Research in Business History, Volume 27, 2010 (forthcoming).

Kuwahara, Tetsuya. Investment in Japan by Multinational Corporations and the Expansion of Mass Marketing: The Case of General Foods in the High Economic Growth Period. Japanese Research in Business History, Volume 27, 2010 (forthcoming).

PhD: University of Tokyo

Currently I am enrolled at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, where I am a PhD candidate in International Relations at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. I am writing my thesis for submission in March 2009.

My PhD research is about British Imperial Policy and Japanese Surrendered Personnel (JSP) in South East Asia, in the period 1945-1947. Further information about this issue is available on a site I am creating for Japanese veterans who were victims of this problem, JSPPOW.net.

1. PhD thesis (in preparation): Japanese Surrendered Personnel: British Imperial Policy in South East Asia and the use of Japanese Labour, 1945–1947 (tentative title).
2. In preparation: Anglo-American relations and the British use of Japanese Surrendered Personnel in South East Asia (tentative title).

MA: Waseda University

From April 2001 to March 2003, I was enrolled at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, at the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies. I completed an MA in International Relations, writing my thesis on the subject of Japan’s legal and moral responsibility towards British Prisoners of War (POWs) and the settlement of claims arising out of the treatment of POWs by the Japanese.

1. Euan McKay. British Prisoners of War in World War Two and Anglo-Japanese Relations: Moral and Legal Responsibility. MA, Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, 2003.

BA: University of Cambridge

I was enrolled at the University of Cambridge, Churchill College, from October 1992 to July 1995, where I completed an MA in Natural Sciences (Experimental Psychology). My research project was an empirical study of the moral development of five- and nine-year-old children.

After graduation, I worked for one year as a research assistant at the Winnicott Research Unit, part of the Department of Psychiatry.

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