On January 22! Jung Lee (Ewha Women’s U) on her new book “Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea”, in conversation with Ian Miller (Harvard U) and Joseph Seeley (U of Virginia). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6304789

A video of the recent MJHA "New Books on Japan" discussion with Alicia Volk regarding her "In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan" is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel! youtu.be/dH6iaY8Joyk?...

Happening soon!

On December 10! M. William Steele (International Christian U) on his new book “Rethinking Japan's Modernity: Stories and Translations”, in conversation with Robert Hellyer (Wake Forest U) and Emer O’Dwyer (Oberlin College). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6327707

Today!!!

Today!!!

Super excited for this one!!

Next Tuesday!!!

Next Tuesday!!!

On December 2! Akiko Takenaka (U of Kentucky) on her new book, "Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan", in conversation with Chelsea Szendi Schieder (Aoyama Gakuin U) and Sara Kang (Princeton U). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6314073

A video of the recent MJHA "New Books on Japan" discussion with Barak Kushner on "The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History" is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel! youtu.be/EJlYhPWELpk?...

A video of the recent MJHA "New Books on Japan" discussion with Barak Kushner on "The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History" is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel! youtu.be/EJlYhPWELpk?...

Starts in one hour!!

Happening in one week! Alicia Volk (University of Maryland) discusses her new work, "In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan," as part of the MJHA's New Books on Japan series. Information and Registration: mjha.org/event-6314068

Happening in one week! Alicia Volk (University of Maryland) discusses her new work, "In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan," as part of the MJHA's New Books on Japan series. Information and Registration: mjha.org/event-6314068

Are you interested in #Kona, #coffee, #glohalhistory, #Japanese #empire? On November 6, we @modernjapanhist.bsky.social will invite Prof. Mariko Iijima (Sophia Univ.) to a book talk about those themes. We will be joined by Prof. Nadin Heé (Leipzig) as a discussant. I will moderate the talk.

Thrilled to announce the publication of my article "The Invention of the Kamikaze: Dissent and Resistance in the Japanese Military" in the October issue of the Journal of Military History!

This is happening!!!! December 2: just in time for Christmas present season. I am still in the anxiety stage, not yet in the Saoirse Ronan as Jo March watching her book get published scene-stage, but I'm glad other people are excited already!

A video of this year's Distinguished Lecture, "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History," given by Andrew Gordon is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel. Please have a look, and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested youtu.be/EN8tx8J8KzA

A fully referenced, full-text version of Andrew Gordon's 2025 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History" can now be found on the MJHA website! Click here: tinyurl.com/32z6mzmr

Watch the video of MJHA's @modernjapanhist.bsky.social annual Distinguished Lecture, delivered by Faculty Associate Andrew Gordon, "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History." youtu.be/EN8tx8J8KzA

In one week! 高媛 (Ko En/Gao Yuan, Komazawa U) on a new book, 帝国と観光―「満洲」ツーリズムの近代 (Empire and Tourism: Modern Japanese Tourism in Manchuria), with Ken Ruoff (Portland State U), 蘭信三 (Araragi Shinzo, Sophia U), and Tadashi Ishikawa (U of Central Florida). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6206315

A fully referenced, full-text version of Andrew Gordon's 2025 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History" can now be found on the MJHA website! Click here: tinyurl.com/32z6mzmr

In one week! 高媛 (Ko En/Gao Yuan, Komazawa U) on a new book, 帝国と観光―「満洲」ツーリズムの近代 (Empire and Tourism: Modern Japanese Tourism in Manchuria), with Ken Ruoff (Portland State U), 蘭信三 (Araragi Shinzo, Sophia U), and Tadashi Ishikawa (U of Central Florida). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6206315

On October 14/15, we @modernjapanhist.bsky.social invite Prof. Ko En/Gao Yuan (Komazawa Univ.) to a book talk about the #Japanese #empire, #Manchuria, and #tourism. We will be joined by two discussants, Ken Ruoff and Araragi Shinzo. Mark your calendars!

A video of this year's Distinguished Lecture, "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History," given by Andrew Gordon is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel. Please have a look, and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested youtu.be/EN8tx8J8KzA

On October 2nd! Barak Kushner (Cambridge U) on his new book “The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History” in conversation with Daqing Yang (George Washington U) and Emer O’Dwyer (Oberlin College). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6314066

A video of the recent MJHA "New Books on Japan" discussion with Angus Lockyer on "Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development" is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel! youtu.be/mWQ7WlcpBCQ

A video of the recent MJHA "New Books on Japan" discussion with Angus Lockyer on "Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development" is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel! youtu.be/mWQ7WlcpBCQ

Thrilled to finally get my hands on this brand new treatment of postwar Japanese history by one of the leading experts in our field, Simon Avenell! Can't wait to read this one!

Thanks again to Andrew Gordon and our moderator, Daniel Botsman, for a fantastic event yesterday! Stay tuned in the next few weeks for a video version of Prof. Gordon's talk, and a text version with citations.

Today!!!

Next Monday!!!

Next Monday!!!

For those who understand German, you might enjoy this podcast about thefascinating history of Kyu Sakamoto's 1961 song "Ue o Muite Arukō," also known as "Sukiyaki" outside of Japan, for which I was interviewed (along with Michael Bourdaghs) for Austrian National Radio: sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/...

On Monday! Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996

Mark your calendars! The 2025 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture will be given by Andrew Gordon (Harvard) on Monday, September 15, 2025, and is titled "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History." REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE: mjha.org/event-6201539

A video of the recent MJHA "Research Exchange Seminar" discussion of the book 『帝国大学の朝鮮人：大韓民国エリートの起源』("Koreans in the Imperial University: The Origin of South Korean Elites") is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel! youtu.be/SdJ_FkionpE

A video of the recent MJHA "Research Exchange Seminar" discussion of the book 『帝国大学の朝鮮人：大韓民国エリートの起源』("Koreans in the Imperial University: The Origin of South Korean Elites") is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel! youtu.be/SdJ_FkionpE

Mark your calendars! The 2025 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture will be given by Andrew Gordon (Harvard) on Monday, September 15, 2025, and is titled "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History." REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE: mjha.org/event-6201539

On Monday! Pieter Van Lommel (Tokyo Keizai U) on his new book "The Age of the ‘Country Teacher’: Japanese Literature, Education and Media in the Second Half of the Meiji Period", in conversation with 鈴木貴宇 (Suzuki Takane, Waseda U). Register for Zoom here: www.mjha.org/event-6259090

A video of the recent "New Books from Japan" event on 朝鮮映画の時代: 帝国日本が創造した植民地表象 ("The Age of Korean Cinema: Colonial Representations Created by Imperial Japan") by 梁仁實 (Yang Insil, Iwate University) is now available on our YouTube channel! Please share with anyone interested! youtu.be/qtdmixdYgSw

On Monday! Pieter Van Lommel (Tokyo Keizai U) on his new book "The Age of the ‘Country Teacher’: Japanese Literature, Education and Media in the Second Half of the Meiji Period", in conversation with 鈴木貴宇 (Suzuki Takane, Waseda U). Register for Zoom here: www.mjha.org/event-6259090

Happening soon!

On Tuesday, July 1st! 梁仁實 (Yang Insil, Iwate University) on his new book 朝鮮映画の時代: 帝国日本が創造した植民地表象 (The Age of Korean Cinema: Colonial Representations Created by Imperial Japan) in conversation with Jonathan Glade (University of Melbourne). Register for Zoom here: www.mjha.org/event-6183687

FINAL CALL: nominations for the 2026 MJHA Book Prize and F. Hilary Conroy First Book Prize are due July 1. Prizes will honor books in Japan Studies with a 2024 copyright year. Publishers and MJHA members can nominate books here: mjha.org/Book-Prize Please share widely!

FINAL CALL: nominations for the 2026 MJHA Book Prize and F. Hilary Conroy First Book Prize are due July 1. Prizes will honor books in Japan Studies with a 2024 copyright year. Publishers and MJHA members can nominate books here: mjha.org/Book-Prize Please share widely!

Thank you, @modernjapanhist.bsky.social, for offering me a chance to talk about my recent publication. Your very generous invitation was much appreciated. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

A video of the recent "New Books on Japan" discussion of Shin Takahashi's book "The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism" (Bloomsbury, 2024) is now up on the MJHA YouTube channel! youtu.be/POt752mso2Y

On Tuesday! Research Exchange Seminar #4: 『帝国大学の朝鮮人：大韓民国エリートの起源』を語る ("Koreans in the Imperial University: The Origin of South Korean Elites") with Jeong Jong-hyeon (Inha U), Naoki Watanabe (Musashi U), and Sayaka Chatani (Nat’l U of Singapore). Register for Zoom here: www.mjha.org/event-6183683