HEAM author Kirsten Ziomek awarded 2021 AAS Hall Prize, Honorable Mention
Harvard East Asian Monograph Series (HEAM) publication, Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan’s Colonial Peoples, by Kirsten Ziomek awarded the 2021 John Whitney Hall Prize, Honorable Mention from the Association for Asian Studies.
Read MoreProfessor Wesley Jacobsen Co-edited Volume on Japanese Linguistics
Wesley Jacobsen, Professor of the Practice of Japanese Language and Director of the Japanese Language Program, has recently co-edited The Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics, a collection of studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, representing a range of ideas and approaches that are influential in the fields of semantics and pragmatics.
Read MoreEzra F. Vogel, 1930-2020
We note with great sadness the sudden passing of Professor Ezra Vogel on December 20, after unexpected complications from surgery. Ezra was a teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend to all of us in the Japanese studies community at Harvard and to countless others in the U.S., Japan, China, and beyond. His accomplishments earned him enormous respect as a scholar and teacher of contemporary Japanese society and of politics in China and East Asia.
Read MoreProfessor Andrew Gordon Quoted in New York Times
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Professor of History, was recently featured in the New York Times article, “A Job for Life, or Not? A Class Divide Deepens in Japan.” Quoted as a specialist in the history of labor in Japan, he commented on the history and trends of the employment of regular versus nonregular workers in Japan.
Read MoreProfessor Christina L. Davis Interviewed for Asahi Shimbun Article about 2020 US Election
Christina L. Davis, Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, was featured in the Asahi Shimbun on November 9, in an article titled "トランプ→バイデン でも、バラ色の世界は戻ってこない" ["Trump to Biden: but no return to a rose-colored world"].
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