H-US-Japan is an edited, international, nonpartisan network that provides scholars, graduate students, politicians, journalists, policy-makers, researchers, professionals, and others a free daily forum to discuss US-Japan relations in the context of economic, security, political, and diplomatic issues. The primary purpose for H-US-Japan is to enable researchers of US-Japan relations to exchange opinions about the significance of current affairs and historical events of Japan-US relations in depth, to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis, and to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching.
18 May 2021
from: Yone Sugita yone@sugita.us
subject: job opening at Osaka University (American studies)
Dear Colleagues:
Osaka U. is now looking for one assistant professor who majors in "social sciences concerning North America [meaning the United States, not Canada]" See below for more details. Deadline: end of May 2021.
http://www1.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/ls/about_ls/employment.html
Best,
Yone
H-US-Japan
15 March 2021
from: Yone Sugita (sugita@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp)
title: Asia-Pacific Seminar
Dear Colleagues:
You are welcome to participate in this zoom seminar.
H-US-Japan
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H-US-Japan
3 Feb 2021
Jon Davidann's The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860-1960 (Routledge, 2019) recently won the Kenneth W. Baldridge Prize for the most outstanding history book by a resident of Hawai'i published between 2017-2019. Here are the Baldridge Committee's comments.
H-US-Japan
3 Feb 2021
"One of the most divisive chapters of the Japanese American incarceration is the story of Tule Lake. Thanks to the activism of Barbara Takei and Konrad Aderer’s film Resistance at Tule Lake, the story has become recognized." -NikkeiWest
