STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Laura Hein (Bloomsbury Press/SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: D. Colin Jaundrill’s “Samurai to Soldier”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan, published by Cornell University Press. The book's author is D. Colin Jaundrill, who earned his PhD from Columbia University and is Associate Professor of History at Providence College. In … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Paul Kreitman
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Kreitman, who earned his PhD from Princeton in 2015, specializes in environmental history, global history, commodity history, and histories of science and technology. In the following Q & A, Professor Kreitman discusses his scholarship and … [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...]
