Dr Sachiko Sone

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

• Migration and migrant communities in Asia and Australia
• Social and economic history of Japanese women

Sachiko teaches Japanese at advanced and specialist levels. Sachiko was awarded a PhD in Japanese History by UWA in 2001. Her research interests include social and economic history of Japanese women and Japanese immigrants in Australia. Her PhD thesis was titled "Coalmining Women In Japan: Cultural Identity, Welfare And
Economic Conditions On The Chikuho Coalfield".

Current Projects

Sachiko is currently working on first, a project which will examine the Japanese permanent residents in Western Australia and second, an editorial work of a book project on a history of Western Australia and Japan relations to be published in May 2009.

Sachiko has been working on a multi-author project to write the history of Western Australia and Japan Relationships.

Key Research and Expertise

Japanese migration
Social and economic history of Japanese women

UWA research grant 2005
The SUMIOMO research grant 2006

Languages

Japanese
English

Membership

Japanese Studies Association of Australia
Asian Studies Association of Australia
Australian Mining History Association
Japanese Labour and Social Studies Association
Japanese Oral History Association

Publications

Recent publications include "Exploitation or Expectation? Child Labour in Japan's Coal Mines before World War II, Critical Asian Studies, 35 (1) 2003 :33-57.

"Japanese Diaspora into Western Australia before 1901" in Cynthia V.Driessen & Ralph Craine (eds), Diaspora: The Austrasian Experience,New Delhi:Prestige,2005,pp.298-316.

"Coal Mining Women Speak Out: Economic Change and Women Miners of Chikuho,Japan" in Jaclyn Gier & Laurie Mercier (eds), Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1660 to 2005, New York:Palgrave, 2006, pp.153-180.

"Japanese Coal Mining : Women Discovered" in Kuntala Jahiri-Dutt & Martha Macintyre(eds),Women Miners in Developing Countries,Hampshire: Asgate,2006, pp.51-72.

"The Reversible World of Japanese Coalmining Women" The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Special Issue 19, 2007 18:2 207-222.