Author

Wakako Higuchi earned her Ph.D. in Pacific and Asian history from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in 2006 and an M.A. in Micronesian studies from the University of Guam in 2001. She also holds a B.A. in Oriental history from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan awarded in 1979.

Higuchi is a visiting research fellow with the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University and a research associate with the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center at the University of Guam.

As a specialist in Japanese colonial and military history, Higuchi does research and writing for several archeological and other research projects on Guam and Micronesia pertaining to the Japanese administration period.

Higuchi was awarded the Certificate of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Guam and the 2001 Humanities Scholar Award from the Guam Humanities Council. As a native of Japan with permanent residency in the U.S., she has lived in Micronesia and Oceania for twenty-three years.

Dr. Higuchi’s work includes:

  • “A History of Pre-war Japanese Residents of Guam” In Guam History: Perspectives Volume One. Mangilao, GU: Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam, 1997.
  • “Japan’s Economic Exploitation of a U.S. Territory of Guam, 1941-1944,” Pacific Studies 31, no. 1 (March 2008).
  • The Japanese Navy Administration of Guam in WWII. NC: McFarland & Company, 2008, in press.
  • “The Japanisation Policy of the Chamorros of Guam, 1941-1944,” The Journal of Pacific History 36, no. 1 (2001).
  • “Remembering the War Years on Guam: A Japanese Perspective.” Manuscript submitted to War in the Pacific National Historical Park National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2001.
  • “A Report on Comfort Women of Guam.” Tokyo: The Asian Women’s Fund, 1999.
  • “A U.S. Territory in Japan’s South Sea Islands: The Japanese Navy Administration of Guam.” Ph.D. thesis, The Australian National University, 2006.