Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, took part in the Chatham House conference "Challenge and Uncertainty in a Volatile World: Japan-UK Perspectives" on October 12 and 13, 2016. The event, held in Tokyo, was the fourth in a series of five annual conferences on the UK-Japan relationship and … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck talks with Slate, The New York Times, and The Takeaway about Japanese Emperor Akihito
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, was interviewed by Slate on August 8, 2016 about the possibility that Japan's emperor Akihito may abdicate the throne. On August 9, 2016, Professor Gluck discussed Emperor Akihito's significance in The New York Times article "In Japan, an Emperor Constrained … [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...]
Carol Gluck Chairs “Horizons of Hope in Asia” Special Roundtable at AAS in Kyoto
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, chaired the June 24, 2016 special roundtable "Horizons of Hope in Asia" at the Association for Asian Studies in Asia conference in Kyoto. In addition to Professor Gluck, the roundtable featured Jie-Hyun Lim of Sogang University, Rwei-ren Wu of Academia … [Read more...]
