Series Editor: Miriam Kingsberg Kadia (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
This series publishes original research in the field of modern Japanese history. It includes monographs, edited collections, annotated translations, and other types of publications. In pursuit of the best boundary-breaking scholarship, it is only loosely contained by its chronological, geographic, and disciplinary parameters. It welcomes creative contributions that toy with the confines of the "modern" period or that situate this era within a longer timeframe. It seeks transnational research that is not circumscribed by the borders of the contemporary Japanese nation-state or limited to a source base of Japanese-language materials. It embraces books in every historical subfield (social, cultural, intellectual, political, economic, medical, legal, diplomatic, etc.), as well as works that draw on methodologies employed across the humanities, the social sciences, and more distant fields. The series particularly supports research by junior scholars, independent scholars, scholars working off the tenure track, scholars whose native language is not English, women scholars, and scholars of color.
By Oliviero Frattolillo
July 14, 2023
This book is a political and cultural history of the early postwar Japan aiming at exploring how the perception and cultural values of everyday life in the country changed along with the rise of the kasutori culture. Such a process was closely tied with both a refusal of the samurai culture and the...
By Norman Smith
June 09, 2023
In 1944, the novel Xie (Crabs) by Mei Niang (1916-2013) was honored with the Japanese Empire’s highest literary award, Novel of the Year. Then, at the peak of her popularity, Mei Niang published in Japanese-owned, Chinese-language journals and newspapers in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (...
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By William Marotti
April 28, 2023
Anarchic street performances in late-1950s Japan; inauguration of the first Happenings in Antwerp and charging of the "magic circle" in Amsterdam; Bauhaus Situationiste and anti-national art exchanges, networks and communes. As "Happener" and "Art Missionary," Yoshio Nakajima’s storied career ...
By Norman Smith
April 28, 2023
Writing Manchuria details the lives and translates a selection of fiction from one of the mid-twentieth century’s "four famous husband-wife writers" of China’s Northeast, who lived in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo: Li Zhengzhong (1921–2020) and Zhu Ti (1923–2012). The writings herein were ...
By Jianda Yuan
April 21, 2023
Drawing on historiography of the Japanese occupation in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages, this book examines the politics of the Manchukuo puppet state from the angle of notable Chinese who cooperated with the Japanese military and headed its government institutions. The war in Asia ...