2024-2025 "New Books on Japan" Series

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Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET

Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2024)

Author: Annika Culver, Professor of East Asian History, Florida State University

Discussant: Jan Bardsley, Professor Emerita of East Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Moderator: Sara Kang, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Princeton University 

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Friday, September 6, 2024 | 8:00-9:30 PM ET

From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony: Koreans and Okinawans in the Resettlement of Northeast Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2023)

Author: Matthew Augustine, Associate Professor of History, Kyushu University

Discussant: Deokhyo Choi, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland

Moderator: Nick Kapur, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Camden 

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | 6:00-7:30 PM ET

Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria (Cornell University Press, 2024)

Author: Joseph Seeley, Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia

Discussant: Andre Schmid, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

Discussant: Seiji Shirane, Associate Professor of History, City College of New York

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Monday, November 4, 2024 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET

Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire: Fragmenting History (Routledge, 2023)

Author: Nobuko Yamasaki, Associate Professor of Japanese, Lehigh University

Discussant: Michiko Suzuki, Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, UC Davis

Moderator: Sara Kang, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Princeton University 

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Thursday, November 21, 2024 | 6:00-7:30 PM ET

The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan (Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2022)

Susan Westhafer Furukawa, Associate Professor of Japanese, Beloit College

Discussant: Rebecca Copeland, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Washington University in St. Louis

Moderator: Nick Kapur, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Camden 

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Thursday, December 12, 2024 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET

Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Author: Kerry Smith, Associate Professor of History, Brown University

Discussant: Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Class of 1955 Memorial Professor of History, Williams College

Moderator: Nick Kapur, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Camden 

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | 6:00-7:30 PM ET

Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule (University of Washington Press, 2024)

Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Authors: Fang Yu Hu, Assistant Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University Pomona & Tadashi Ishikawa, Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Florida

Discussant: Seiji Shirane, Associate Professor of History, City College of New York

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Monday, February 3, 2025 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET

Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire: The Global Evolution of the Japanese Red Cross Movement, 1877–1945 (Columbia University Press, 2024)

Author: Michiko Suzuki, Project Researcher, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo

Discussant: Jessamyn Abel, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Moderator: Sara Kang, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Princeton University 

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Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 8:00-9:30 PM EST

Kings in All but Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569 (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Author: Thomas Conlan, Professor of Medieval Japanese History, Princeton University

Discussant: Adam Clulow, Professor of History, University of Texas

Moderator: Nick Kapur, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Camden 

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Friday, March 28, 2025 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET

Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration (Columbia University Press, 2023)

Author: Simon Partner, Professor of History, Duke University

Discussant: Laura Nenzi, Professor of History, Emory University

Moderator: Nick Kapur, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Camden 

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Monday, April 7, 2025 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET

Entwined Atrocities: New Insights into the U.S.–Japan Alliance (Peter Lang, 2023)

Author: Yuki Tanaka, Research Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima City University

Discussant: Kirsten Ziomek, Associate Professor of History, Adelphi University

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Monday, May 5, 2025 | 8:00-9:30 PM EST

Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance (Cornell University Press, 2024)

Author: Ryan Moran, Assistant Professor of History, University of Utah

Moderator: Timothy Yang, Associate Professor of History & Director of the Center for Asian Studies, University of Georgia

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Monday, May 26, 2025 | 8:00-9:30 PM ET

The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Presenter: Shinnosuke Takahashi, Senior Lecturer in the Asian Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington

Discussant: Grant Jun Otsuki, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthroplogy, University of Tokyo

Moderator: Simon Avenell, Professor of History, Australian National University