Pre-conference Event

Fumie MATSUBARA
TV Producer, Director, and Filmmaker. 

A graduate of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo.

Matsubara made her directorial debut with the documentary film Hama no Don (2023), which follows a businessman leading the opposition against a casino development project in Yokohama.

Her latest film, Women of Kurokawa (2025), addresses the sexual violence endured by the women of the Kurokawa Settlers Group, who were part of the Manchuria-Mongolia colonization effort. The film has sparked a profound social dialogue and received a significant public response in Japan.

Mie NAKACHI 

Historian, Hokusei Gakuen University, Japan

Mie Nakachi is Professor of Global Studies at Hokusei Gakuen University and Research Associate at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. She holds a doctoral degree in history from the University of Chicago. Her research has analyzed the reproductive politics of the Soviet Union, placing women’s experiences and voices as the central force of this development after World War II.

Nakachi’s book, Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union (OUP, 2021) won the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2022 and also received an honorable mention from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies for the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies in 2022. She has also used comparative analysis to place postwar reproductive politics under socialism in regional and global perspectives, as co-editor of Reproductive States: Global Perspectives on the Invention and Implementation of Population Policy (Oxford University Press, 2016).