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I have\u00a0appointments in the History Department and the Asian Studies Program of Vanderbilt University where my teaching and research straddles modern Japanese cultural history and cultural\u00a0studies. My\u00a0first book,\u00a0Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Duke UP, 1999), is a study of how traditional folk beliefs and a wider discourse on the mysterious and supernatural were reconfigured in the context of Japan\u2019s modernization to serve the consolidation of a nation-state on the one hand and to offer a platform of critique of Japan\u2019s path to modernization on the other. My\u00a0second\u00a0book serendipitously shifted from research sites in northern Japan to southern Okinawa (long story),\u00a0Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) considers issues of tourism and war memorialization in postwar Okinawa. I’ve done\u00a0several journal articles in this area, including \u201cWaging Peace on Okinawa\u201d that was cited as Honorable Mention for Best Article in the journal\u00a0Critical Asian Studies<\/em>\u00a0in 2001 and a forthcoming piece in a volume on global WWII war remembrance. I’ve\u00a0presented sections of these works over the years at many domestic and international fora of Japanese historical and cultural studies.<\/p>\n

I have a two other on-going projects, \u201cMultiple Exposure: Photography in Postwar Okinawa, 1945-75″ which brings into conversation together for the first time the business, production, and product of Okinawan, mainland Japanese, and American photography of Okinawa and its people. Also, I’m working on a history of coastal armoring in postwar Japan, particularly the use of tetrapods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have\u00a0appointments in the History Department and the Asian Studies Program of Vanderbilt University where my teaching and research straddles modern Japanese cultural history and cultural\u00a0studies. My\u00a0first book,\u00a0Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan<\/a>\u00a0(Duke UP, 1999), is a study of how traditional folk beliefs and a wider discourse on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}