New Books in Japanese Studies

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Alice In Wonderland

World War II

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Japanese Empire

Myth Interpretation

Japanese Media

Translation and Adaptation

Cuteness Studies

Peace Preservation Law

Japanese Americans

Japanese Grammar

Ideological Conversion

Japan-Russia Relations

Transnational Cinema

Collective Memory

Japanese Literature

San Francisco

Burma

Japan

Philippines

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Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024)

In Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule (U Washington Press, 2024), female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Japan... more

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Christopher Nelson, "When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa" (Duke UP, 2025)

Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They are caught up in a web of people and practices--living and dead, visible and immaterial--that exert pow... more

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Stephen C. Mercado, "Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2025)

War, and the threat of war, spurs governments to invest in secret military technologies and weapons. Imperial Japan, ahead of the Second World War, was no exception. After the First World War, Japan set up the Noborito Research Institute: a division ... more

30 Oct 2025 • 38 min

Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

In Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future (University of Arizona Press, 2025), archaeologist Joe E. Watkins provides a comprehensive look at the rich history and cultural resilience of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan, t... more

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Stephen Mercado

Author of Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons

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Episode: Stephen C. Mercado, "Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2025)

Joe Watkins

Senior Consultant for Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants and an affiliated faculty member in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.

University of Arizona

Episode: Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

Dr. Stevie Suan

Associate Professor of Media Performance and Asian Studies

Hosea University, Japan

Episode: Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

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)

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Stephen C. Mercado, "Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2025)

Q: What happens after the war for the Noborito Research Institute?

Immediately after the war, the Allied forces moved to dismantle the Japanese military structure, leading to the abolition of Noborito, but many of its personnel were questioned and some were even recruited by the US government.

Stephen C. Mercado, "Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2025)

Q: What motivated you to write about the Noborito Research Institute?

The motivation was straightforward; I had previously written about the Nakano School and found Noborito so interesting that I wanted to explore it in depth.

Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

Q: What was the interaction like between the Ainu people and the Wajin people?

Prior to the 19th century, the relationship was largely economic with the Ainu trading goods like deer skin for rice and materials, but eventually became exploitative.

Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

Q: How did the Ainu identity evolve and develop under pressure at the turn of the century?

Ainu identity formation involved individuals recognizing they were Ainu despite discrimination, and some sought to maintain their identity within the Japanese system.

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.

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