The War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) at UHM

The War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) is a digital humanities laboratory led by a team of historians, librarians, and GIS specialists at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa since the spring of 2019. WCDI seeks to experiment, develop, and make available to a broad audience innovative digital resources that help promote the teaching and research of World War II-era war crimes committed by the Japanese in the Asia-Pacific region (1931-1945). WCDI uses geographic information systems (GIS) and graph analysis to document, across space and time, the nexus between Japanese military operations, government and military power structures, and the patterns of war crimes. WCDI’s objective is to make available to students and scholars across the globe digital tools that empower users to discover, analyze, and assess the Japanese conduct of war and military occupation, and find answers to a number of questions on accountability that remain unresolved to this day. In this seminar, the WCDI team (Yuma Totani, Professor of History; Theodore Kwok, Geospatial Librarian; Mahany Lindquist, GIS Coordinator; and David Gustavsen, Humanities Librarian) introduces its digital resources to the UH Center for Japanese Studies (CJS) community. This webinar is sponsored by CJS, Dept. of History, and UHM library. Register in advance for this webinar: http://go.hawaii.edu/JCD

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http://go.hawaii.edu/JCD

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Center for Japanese Studies, Mānoa Campus

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