Mayuko Itoh

Australian National University

mayuko.itoh [at] anu.edu.au

Mayuko Itoh is Lecturer in Japanese Language and Studies at School of Culture, History and Languages, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.  She received her PhD in History at the University of Melbourne in 2014.  Her research specializes in gender issues in the modern and contemporary history of Japan.  Her current research interests focus on Japanese women’s experiences of emigrating to and repatriating from Manchuria since the 1930s.  She most recently authored a book chapter, “Backsliding to Authoritarianism in Japan? State and Civil Responses to Experiences of Japanese Women Repatriated from Manchuria” in Spires and Ogawa, eds, Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia (Routledge, 2022).