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David C. Atherton recognized by American Library Association for 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

David C. Atherton's most recent book, Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature (Columbia University Press, 2023), has been named a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association.

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Karen L. Thornber featured in Harvard Gazette

Karen L. Thornber, Henry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, was recently featured on the front page of the Harvard Gazette. In her interview, Prof. Thornber discussed her visions for the future of the Bok Center.

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Ryo Morimoto awarded Modern Japan History Association Book Prize

Ryo Morimoto has been awarded the Modern Japan History Association (MJHA) Book Prize for his recently published monograph Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone (University of California Press, 2023).

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Aya Goto leads Harvard School of Public Health students on field trip to Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

This January, Aya Goto, Professor of the Practice of International Community Health and faculty director of the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is leading a cohort of fifteen graduate students on an immersive tour of Fukushima Prefecture.

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Miya Qiong Xie (Ph.D. '17) awarded 2024 Modern Language Association Prize for First Book

Miya Qiong Xie (Ph.D. 2017) was recently awarded the 2024 Modern Language Association Prize for First Book for her monograph Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia (Harvard University Asia Center, 2023).

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