STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yukiko Koga (University of Chicago Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Winner, 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize, American Anthropological Association Winner, 2017 Anthony Leeds Book Prize, American Anthropological Association How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by … [Read more...]
The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku
ASIA PERSPECTIVES: NEW HORIZONS IN ASIAN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE Donald Keene The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku (2016) "The First Modern Japanese is a poignant though familiar tale of the genius and premature death of a promising artist. As Donald Keene notes, Ishikawa Takuboku was a pivotal figure and someone to consider when thinking … [Read more...]
Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sheena Chestnut Greitens (Cambridge University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Co-Winner, 2017 Best Book Award, American Political Science Association (APSA) Section on Comparative Democratization Co-Winner, 2017 Best Book Award, International Studies Association How do dictators stay in … [Read more...]
Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yoshikuni Igarashi (Columbia University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Honorable Mention: 2018 John Whitney Hall Book Prize (Japan), Association for Asian Studies Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas … [Read more...]
Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES D. Colin Jaundrill (Cornell University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted … [Read more...]
