2022-2023 "New Books on Japan" Series

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December 14, 2022, 7:00-8:30 PM EST

Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 (Cornell University Press, 2022)

Author: Seiji Shirane, Assistant Professor of History, City College of New York

Discussant: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

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February 8, 2023 | 7:00-8:30 PM EST

Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force during the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022)

Author: Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University

Discussant: Yoshikuni Igarashi, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

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March 8, 2023 | 7:00-8:30 PM EST

Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Author: H. Yumi Kim, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University

Discussant: Daniel Botsman, Professor of History, Yale University

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April 12, 2023 | 7:00-8:30 PM EST

Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2023)

Author: Gennifer Weisenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University

Discussant: David Fedman, Associate Professor of History, UC Irvine

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May 15, 2023 | 7:30-9:00 PM EST

Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2022)

Author: Garrett L. Washington, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Discussant: Jordan Sand, Professor of Japanese History, Georgetown University