Kudos to Japanese major, Ryan Buyco, GW '10, who presented a paper entitled, "Travels in the Philippines: A Postcolonial Reading" at the 2011 School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The theme of the conference was “Crossing Borders: Emerging Trends in Pacific and Asian Studies." Ryan received the Edward Seidensticker Award for best paper in Japanese studies.
According to Ryan:
"My paper focuses on a travelogue written in 1967 by Ōoka Shōhei, considered to be one of the most well respected writers in Japan's postwar history. During world war II, Ōoka was a soldier in the Philippines where he became a prisoner of war. This travel account documents his return back—more than twenty years after, where he goes around the Philippine countryside paying respects to his comrades that died in battle. My paper attempts to understand this text in relation to Japan's historical memory as a former colonizer."
Congratulations again!
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