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| 1. | The Japanese Migration to Davao, Philippines: An Overview (Peer-reviewed) Maria Cynthia Barriga Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies 2026.4 
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| 2. | Asia-Pacific War in Southeastern Mindanao: Polarization of Multi-Racial Localities (Forthcoming) (Peer-reviewed) Maria Cynthia Barriga, Hannee Badilles Southeast Asian Studies 2026 |
| 3. | Picture bride, war bride: the role of marriage in shaping Japanese America By Sonia C. Gomez. New York University Press, 2024. 200 pages. Hardcover, $35.00 USD, ISBN: 9781479803071. Ebook, $35.00, ISBN: 9781479803095.
Maria Cynthia Barriga International Journal of Asian Studies pp.1-4 2025.5
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| 4. | Humanising Bordered Histories: Japanese Locals in Guam’s War Memorial (Peer-reviewed) Maria Cynthia Barriga Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan’s Empire, edited by Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings (Bloomsbury 2024) pp.169-186 2024.9 |
| 5. | Polarized War Histories of Davao: Filipino-Japanese Local Relations during the War (Peer-reviewed) The Journal of History Vol.LXIX,pp.348-377 2023 |
| 6. | Book Review: Coral and Concrete: Remembering Kwajalein Atoll between Japan, America, and the Marshall Islands, by Greg Dvorak
Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia Vol.58,No.1,pp.162-165 2022 |
| 7. | Reorienting Japanese Studies with Views from the Nan’yō
New Voices of Japanese Studies Vol.13,pp.60-72 2021 |
| 8. | The Japanese in Postwar Guam: Towards a Reconciliation (Peer-reviewed) Pacific Asia Inquiry: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Vol.12,pp.272-301 2021 |
| 9. | Towards an Interconnected Pacific: An Historiography of Guam in Japan (Peer-reviewed) Pacific Asia Inquiry Vol.9,pp.21-35 2018
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| 10. | Asia-Pacific War in the Davao Settler Zone, December 1941 (Peer-reviewed) Kasarinlan Vol.30,No.1,pp.56-90 2015
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Presentations
| No. | Name of subject/Conference Name | Year | Site |
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| 1. | History of Japanese Migration to Davao: A Role for Local Researchers(From History to Horizons: Celebrating 70 Years of Japan–Philippines Friendship, July 31, 2026 (organized by PHILAJAMES Mindanao Chapter, in partnership with the Consulate General of Japan in Davao, the Philippine Nikkei Jin Kai, Inc., the International Studies Department of Ateneo de Davao University, and the Mindanao State University–General Santos International Relations Department)) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2026.7.31 |
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| 2. | A Chorus of Voices: The Japanese Peace Memorial in Guam(The 9th Annual Conference, Memory Studies Association, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) |
Holding date :
2025.7.18 Presentation date : 2025.7.14 |
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| 3. | The Japanese Question: Writing Histories amid Successive Empires.(Reimagining the Pacific: Towards an Oceanic Intellectual History, University of Tokyo Komaba, Tokyo, Japan.) |
Holding date :
2025.3.14 Presentation date : 2025.3.13 |
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| 4. | Dissecting the 1940 Guam Census: The Use and Value of Research Tools(46th CLASS Annual Research Conference, University of Guam, Guam, USA) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2025.3.7 |
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| 5. | Peace Memorials in Davao and Guam: Imbricated Histories in the Overlap of the US-Japan Empire(University of Guam, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Annual Research Conference) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2024.3.8 |
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| 6. | The Matsui Archival Film Collection: A Resource for Davao History(Public Lecture Series about the 120th Year of Japanese Migration in the Philippines and the Current Philippine-Japan Relations.” Mindanao Kokusai Daigaku, Davao City) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2023.11.25 |
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| 7. | Transforming Tutor Trainings: Waseda Writing Center(The Thirteenth Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia, organized by Writing Centers Association of Japan) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2023.2.18 |
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| 8. | Polarized War Histories of Davao: Filipino-Japanese Local Relations amid Successive Empires, 1940s(43rd National Conference on Local and National History, organized by the Philippine National Historical Society) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2022.8.27 |
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| 9. | Unpacking and Repackaging Japanese Migrants in the US-Ruled Philippines: Alternative Perspectives in History and Deep Film Indexing(Association for Asian Studies 2022 Annual Conference) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2022.3.24 |
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| 10. | Reorienting Japanese Studies with Views from the Nan'yō(Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2021 Conference: “Sustainability, Longevity and Mobility) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.10.1 |
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| 11. | Davao, in the Roundtable "Archiving Forgotten Communities: Japanese Migrant Communities in the U.S. Colonial Philippines"(The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars - Crafting a Global Future) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.8.25 |
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| 12. | Narrating Davao’s World War II History(HISTORYa Kita, organized by Hijos Tours) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.8.14 |
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| 13. | Davao, in the Roundtable "The 1920-30s Footage of the Philippines Taken by Japanese Migrants: A Roundtable Discussion on Potentials of Film Archiving for New Research"(The 26th Young Scholars’ Conference on Philippine Studies in Japan) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.7.17 |
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| 14. | "Filipino-Japanese Local Relations in Wartime Davao"(Forging ahead Together for Peace and Development of Mindanao) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.3.2 |
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| 15. | "Toward an Interconnected Pacific: Conversing Beyond Japanese Studies"(Beyond Japanese Studies Symposium: Challenges, Opportunities And COVID-19) |
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2021.2.19 Presentation date : 2021.2.18 |
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| 16. | "Japanese Names in the Asan Bay Overlook Memorial Wall: Reconciling Divided Histories"(Contesting Memorial Spaces in the Asia-Pacific, Kyushu University Border Studies) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2020.11.6 |
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| 17. | "The Japanese Locals of Davao: Reconciling the Polarized Histories of a Hybrid Settler Zone"(Japanese Presence in Mindanao Writing Workshop) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2020.10.17 |
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| 18. | "Pacific War in Mixed Localities: The Davao Locals as People in Between"(International Conference on Japanese Studies) |
Holding date :
2020.2.1 Presentation date : 2020.1.31 |
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| 19. | "Pacific at War: The Japanese Locals of Davao"(Center for Philippine Studies Conference University of Hawaii Manoa) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.10.6 |
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| 20. | "Pacific at War: The Japanese Locals of Guam"(Marianas History Conference) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.9.1 |
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| 21. | "Pacific at War: Shifting Social Spaces of Japanese Residents in Davao Settler Zone"(Young Scholars Conference on Philippine Studies in Japan) |
Holding date :
2019.6.23 Presentation date : 2019.6.22 |
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| 22. | "Japanese Mestizos in the Asia-Pacific War, December 1941"(International Graduate Student Conference, East-West Center) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.2.16 |
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| 23. | "War in the Philippines: View from a Settler Zone Davao, Philippines, 1941-1945"(Occupation and Liberation: An International Conference on the Pacific War in the Philippines.) |
Holding date :
2015.9.5 Presentation date : 2015.9.3 |
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| 24. | "War in the Philippines, December 1941: View from the Davao Settler Zone"(1st ACAS Graduate Students Symposium, Ateneo de Manila University) |
Holding date :
2015.7.17 Presentation date : 2015.7.16 |
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| 25. | "War in a Settler Zone: Changes in the Social Relations among Filipino and Japanese Residents in Davao Province, 1941-1945"(10th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore) |
Holding date :
2015.6.26 Presentation date : 2015.6.24 |
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| 26. | "War in a Settler Zone: Filipino and Japanese Settlers in Davao Province during the Asia-Pacific War (1941-1945)"(Young Scholars Conference on Philippine Studies in Japan) |
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2013.7.6 |
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| 27. | Threads in the Fabric: Inserting Four Women in Guam History(The 7th Marianas History Conference, University of Guam, USA, August 30, 2025) |
Holding date :
2025.8.29
- 2025.8.31 Presentation date : |
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| 28. | The Japanese Memorials in Davao and Guam(2024 AAS-in-Asia Conference, Yogyakarta, Indonesia) |
Holding date :
2024.7.9
- 2024.7.10 Presentation date : |
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| 29. | The Japanese Names in the Asan Bay Overlook Memorial Wall: Humanizing Histories(The 6th Marianas History Conference) |
Holding date :
2023.9.1
- 2023.9.3 Presentation date : |
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| 30. | Asia-Pacific War in Southeastern Mindanao: Comparing Japanese and Filipino Stories in Davao City and NLSA(The 5th Philippine Studies Conference in Japan) |
Holding date :
2022.11.26
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| 31. | Cracks in the Moving Curtain: Davao beyond Dabao-kuo(The 5th Philippine Studies Conference in Japan) |
Holding date :
2022.11.25
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Research Projects
| No. | Research subject | Research item(Awarding organization, System name) | Year |
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| 1. | Sites of Contestation or Connection? Japan's imperial heritage and borders of memory
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基盤研究(B)
( Awarding organization: 日本学術振興会 System name: 科学研究費助成事業 ) |
2023.4 - 2027.3 |
| 2. | Sites of Contestation or Connection? Japan's imperial heritage and borders of memory
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基盤研究(B)
( Awarding organization: 日本学術振興会 System name: 科学研究費助成事業 ) |
2023.4 - 2027.3 |
| 3. | Reconstruction of Japanese immigrants in the Philippines under the US rule through films and photographs: Memory, Representation and Relations
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Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
( Awarding organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science System name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research ) |
2021.4 - 2024.3 |
