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New Books in Japanese Studies

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Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (Penguin Random House, 2025) is the second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasa... more

Today we are joined by Aaron Miller, Lecturer in Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay and the author of Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars (Routledge, 2025.) In our conversation, we discussed the beginnings of basketball in J... more

Maren A. Ehlers’s Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) examines the ways in which ordinary subjects—including many so-called outcastes and other marginalized groups—participated in t... more

Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference (Routledge, 2024) examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship each of these to translation, from th... more

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M. G. Sheftall
Professor and author
Shizuoka University
Episode: M. G. Sheftall, "Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses" (Penguin Random House, 2025)
Aaron L. Miller
Lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University East Bay and author of"Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars"
California State University East Bay
Episode: Aaron L. Miller, "Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars" (Routledge, 2024)
Maren Ehlers
Author and scholar specializing in Japanese history, focusing on poverty management during the Tokugawa period.
Harvard University Asia Center
Episode: Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)
Vicky Young
Author and scholar focusing on Japanese literature and translation
Routledge
Episode: Victoria Young, "Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference" (Routledge, 2024)
Dr. Paul Thomas Chamberlin
Professor of history at Columbia University
Columbia University
Episode: Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2025)
Frank Jacob
Professor of Global History at North University in Norway and author of several books focusing on Japanese history and mass violence.
North University
Episode: Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018)
Dr. Sarah Teasley
Author of "Designing Modern Japan" and scholar in Japanese design history
Reaktion Books
Episode: Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Dr. Alison Miller
Professor of Art History at the University of the South
University of the South
Episode: Alison J. Miller, "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868-1952" (Routledge, 2024)
Dr. Sonia Gomez
Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University, interested in race and ethnic relations
Santa Clara University
Episode: Sonia C. Gomez, "Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America" (NYU Press, 2024)

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M. G. Sheftall, "Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses" (Penguin Random House, 2025)
Q: What kind of shifts exist between survivor testimony and inherited memory?
Shifts involve reliability of oral history; when survivors are alive, direct testimony is preferred, but once they are gone, oral traditions might evolve into legend and myth, potentially losing fidelity.
M. G. Sheftall, "Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses" (Penguin Random House, 2025)
Q: How is Nagasaki viewed differently than Hiroshima? Are they one in the same?
While both cities were bombed in close succession, Nagasaki is often seen as a secondary narrative compared to Hiroshima, which has became central to the identity of a city defined by its atomic experience. The survivor stories differ based on societal perceptions.
M. G. Sheftall, "Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses" (Penguin Random House, 2025)
Q: What does the phrase last witnesses mean in the context of Nagasaki and can you tell us by also giving us more about your background?
It refers to the atomic bomb survivors who were older than 12 during the bombings and thus can provide detailed narrative memories about their experiences. M. G. Sheftall has been researching Japanese war memory for a quarter century and has been in Japan since 1987.
Aaron L. Miller, "Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars" (Routledge, 2024)
Q: When does basketball come to Japan and how do Japanese people understand basketball in a global context?
Basketball in Japan was influenced by the opening of Japan to the West and the introduction of Western sports by foreign teachers at universities, with early success primarily limited to YMCA institutions.
Aaron L. Miller, "Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars" (Routledge, 2024)
Q: Can you tell us a little bit about how you did your research?
My methodology relied on ethnography and included spending a year doing fieldwork at a university in Tokyo managing and observing basketball practices.

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