We are pleased to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War, published by Cornell University Press. The book’s author is Lee K. Pennington, an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy. In this book, Professor Pennington relates for … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Akiko Takenaka’s “Yasukuni Shrine”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar, published by The University of Hawaii Press. The book’s author is Akiko Takenaka, an associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky. Professor Takenaka’s book offers the first extensive … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Jessamyn Abel’s “The International Minimum”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933-1964, published by The University of Hawaii Press. The book’s author is Jessamyn Abel, an assistant professor of Asian Studies and history at Pennsylvania State University. Professor … [Read more...]
Grassroots Fascism
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Yoshimi Yoshiaki. Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People Translated by Ethan Mark (2015) "These searing and honest accounts drawn from the diaries and memoirs of ordinary Japanese soldiers and civilians make abundantly clear the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army. They also reveal the suffering, the blind devotion, … [Read more...]
The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki
ASIA PERSPECTIVES: NEW HORIZONS IN ASIAN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE Donald Keene. The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki (2013) "In Donald Keene’s writing, there is an undeniable warmth and humanity that is often absent in much of our contemporary literary criticism. The general reader, even with little interest in haiku, will find this work illuminating and … [Read more...]
