The 120 Years Anniversary Conference of the Russo-Japanese War
Organization
The Military History Society of Japan
(The 2025 Annual Convention of the Military History Society of Japan)
Dates
7-8 June 2025.
Place
Himata Campus, Matsuyama University
4-2 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama-shi, Ehime, 790-8578 Japan
https://www.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/eng-guide/campus/bunkyo/
Registration
from 1st to 28th of February 2025
Please send an e-mail to the Organizing Committee.
e-mail: chiuneguide@yahoo.co.jp
Conference Topics and Theme
The Russo-Japanese War 1904-05, and the related topics: Military, Politics, Diplomacy, Economy, Law, Technology, Sociology, Culture, etc.
Location
Matsuyama: This is the biggest city in Shikoku (the smallest of Japan’s four major islands). There are a beautiful castle, a famous hot spring spa, and many historical sites in the city center, where the first POW camps were established in the Russo-Japanese War.
For City Information: https://en.matsuyama-sightseeing.com/guidance/tourism/
The best way for visiting Matsuyama is to take flights from all over the world via Tokyo or Osaka. It is easy to come by flights of the Oneworld or the Star Alliance airlines.
Accommodation
ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Matsuyama
(City Center, the bus stop Ookaido in the front of the hotel)
Address: 3-2-1 Ichiban-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8520 Japan
TEL：+81-89-933-5511
rmm@anacpmatsuyama.com
https://anacpmatsuyama.com/english/
Price: Twin (06.&08.06: 22,000 yen, 07.06: 34,000 yen, including breakfast)
Single (06.&08.06: 13,000 yen, 07.06: 19,000 yen including breakfast)
*You can easily reserve any other hotels in the center of Matsuyama via the Booking.com.
If you would like to reserve the above hotel via our society, please send an e-mail.
Attendance Fee
06.06. Welcome Dinner: 8,000 yen
07.06. Conference: 6,000 yen
08.06. Bus Tour: 9,000 yen
08.06. Farewell Dinner: 10,000 yen
*Expected in January, it would be little bit more expensive in June.
The society accepts the fee only in cash. Any credit card is not available.
If you would like to attend the tour on 08.06. and dinners on 06. and/or 08.06.
please send an e-mail.
Presentation
Scholars, who shall give a presentation, please send the summary (almost 300 words) to the following e-mail up to the end of February.
*The Military History Society of Japan issues 4 volumes of the Gunji Shigaku (Military History Journal) in Japanese every year. Each presenter’s summary will be translated into Japanese and be published in the journal in the end of 2025.
Scholars, who would like to publish his/her article in English in Japan, the organizing committee will seek any journals in English for him/her in Japan.
Secretary General of the Conference: Chiharu INABA Prof. Dr. (Meijo University)
Contacts
Schedule on 06.06.2025
Arrival at Matsuyama Airport anytime (no reception of the society)
Take a limousine bus to Matsuyama City
18:00 Welcome dinner (Sushi Cuisine) in the ANA Hotel.
Schedule on 07.06.2025
Place: Matsuyama University, Himata Campus
Address: Bunkyo-cho 4-2, Matsuyama City
Access: Any Tram from Okaido Station to Teppo-cho Station (200 yen)
| 10:00 | Reception OpenEhime |
| 10:30-11:00 | General Assembly: President, Governor of Ehime Prefecture |
| 11:15-12:15 | Key Note: Prof. Rotem Kowner (Haifa University) |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch (A lunch box with green tea) |
| 13:15-13:45 | Special Presentation: Mr Koichi Ishimaru (Sakanouenokumo Museum) |
| 14:00-15:30 | Session 1, “Warfare in Land” (3 presenters each session: Sessions’ name might be changed) Session 2, “Naval Warfare” Session 3, “Politics, Diplomacy, and Economics” |
| 15:45-17:15 | Session 4, “Societies in War” Session 5, “Matsuyama POW Camp” Session 6, “Josef Pilsudski and Taro Utsunomiya: The Polish-Japanese Stratagem in London and Tokyo” |
| 17:45-20:00 | Official Dinner: Mayor of Matsuyama (Matsuyama Drum Performance) Return to the Center by trams |
Schedule 08.06. (Historical Bus Tour)
Charter bus (50 person: reserve in February)
08:40 Bus starts from the Dogo Onsen Station (Hot Spring Spa in Matsuyama)
09:00 Sakanouenokumo Museum (Museum of the Russo-Japanese War)
10:30 Matsuyama Castle
12:30 Lunch (Matsuyama local cuisine)
14:00 The Russian POWs’ Graveyard
16:00 Airport
16:30 ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Matsuyama
19:00 Farewell Dinner: Teppanyaki restaurant, in the ANA Hotel
