Eiji Murashima

Nuon Chea and Thai Intellectuals in Thailand's Communist Movement (1945–1950)

Drawing on interviews with Nuon Chea (1926–2019) and former members of the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT), together with contemporary publications and surviving educational and administrative records, this study reconstructs Nuon Chea's life and political activities in Bangkok...

Ethnicity Engulfed by Nationalization: Who Are the Khmer?

This article seeks, first, to elucidate the actual processes by which ethnic Chinese and ethnic Lao minorities in Cambodia have undergone Khmerization; second, to compare these processes with the Thaification of the ethnic Khmer of northeastern Thailand, who, in contrast to the K...

Ethnicity Engulfed by Nationalization: Who Are the Khmer?

This article seeks, first, to elucidate the actual processes by which ethnic Chinese and ethnic Lao minorities in Cambodia have undergone Khmerization; second, to compare these processes with the Thaification of the ethnic Khmer of northeastern Thailand, who, in contrast to the K...

Iwamoto Chizuna's Ventures in Siam and the Formation of Modern Japan–Thailand Relations in the 1890s: Japanese Labor Migration, Private Enterprise, and Consular Diplomacy

This study reconstructs the activities of Iwamoto Chizuna (1858–1920), a former Japanese army officer who became one of the earliest and most active private Japanese figures in Siam (Thailand) during the formative period of modern Japan–Thailand relations in the 1890s. Drawing ex...

Iwamoto Chizuna's Ventures in Siam and the Formation of Modern Japan–Thailand Relations in the 1890s: Japanese Labor Migration, Private Enterprise, and Consular Diplomacy

This study reconstructs the activities of Iwamoto Chizuna (1858–1920), a former Japanese army officer who became one of the earliest and most active private Japanese figures in Siam (Thailand) during the formative period of modern Japan–Thailand relations in the 1890s. Drawing ex...