Modern Japan History Association
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Modern Japan History Association
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A member-run, non-profit organization open to anyone interested in modern Japan or Japanese history.

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On December 2!

Akiko Takenaka (U of Kentucky) on her new book, "Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan", in conversation with Chelsea Szendi Schieder (Aoyama Gakuin U) and Sara Kang (Princeton U).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6314073
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A fully referenced, full-text version of Andrew Gordon's 2025 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History" can now be found on the MJHA website!

Click here: tinyurl.com/32z6mzmr
October 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
In one week!

高媛 (Ko En/Gao Yuan, Komazawa U) on a new book, 帝国と観光―「満洲」ツーリズムの近代 (Empire and Tourism: Modern Japanese Tourism in Manchuria), with Ken Ruoff (Portland State U), 蘭信三 (Araragi Shinzo, Sophia U), and Tadashi Ishikawa (U of Central Florida).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6206315
October 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
On October 2nd!

Barak Kushner (Cambridge U) on his new book “The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History” in conversation with Daqing Yang (George Washington U) and Emer O’Dwyer (Oberlin College).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6314066
September 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
On Monday!

Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996
September 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Mark your calendars!

The 2025 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture will be given by Andrew Gordon (Harvard) on Monday, September 15, 2025, and is titled "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History."

REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE: mjha.org/event-6201539
August 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
On Monday!

Pieter Van Lommel (Tokyo Keizai U) on his new book "The Age of the ‘Country Teacher’: Japanese Literature, Education and Media in the Second Half of the Meiji Period", in conversation with 鈴木貴宇 (Suzuki Takane, Waseda U).

Register for Zoom here: www.mjha.org/event-6259090
August 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
On Tuesday, July 1st!

梁仁實 (Yang Insil, Iwate University) on his new book 朝鮮映画の時代: 帝国日本が創造した植民地表象 (The Age of Korean Cinema: Colonial Representations Created by Imperial Japan) in conversation with Jonathan Glade (University of Melbourne).

Register for Zoom here: www.mjha.org/event-6183687
June 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
FINAL CALL: nominations for the 2026 MJHA Book Prize and F. Hilary Conroy First Book Prize are due July 1.

Prizes will honor books in Japan Studies with a 2024 copyright year.

Publishers and MJHA members can nominate books here: mjha.org/Book-Prize

Please share widely!
June 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
On Tuesday!

Research Exchange Seminar #4: 『帝国大学の朝鮮人:大韓民国エリートの起源』を語る ("Koreans in the Imperial University: The Origin of South Korean Elites") with Jeong Jong-hyeon (Inha U), Naoki Watanabe (Musashi U), and Sayaka Chatani (Nat’l U of Singapore).

Register for Zoom here: www.mjha.org/event-6183683
June 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
On Monday, May 26th!

Shinnosuke Takahashi (Victoria U of Wellington) on his new book “The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism” with Grant Jun Otsuki (U of Tokyo) and Simon Avenell (Australian National U.)

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6125938
May 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A week from today!

Ryan Moran (University of Utah) on his new book “Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance” in conversation with Timothy Yang (University of Georgia).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6139439
April 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In one week!

Yuki Tanaka (Hiroshima City University) on his new book “Entwined Atrocities: New Insights into the U.S.-Japan Alliance” in conversation with Kirsten Ziomek (Adelphi University).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5838631
March 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A video of the recent Modern Japan History Association "Research Exchange Seminar" on the future of Japanese high school history education is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel!

youtu.be/pEo_DNxqOZ4
March 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
On Friday!

Simon Partner (Duke University) on his new book "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration" in conversation with Laura Nenzi (Emory University).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5795777
March 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
MJHA is now accepting nominations for the 2026 MJHA Book Prize, the 2026 F. Hilary Conroy First Book Prize, and the 2026 Charlotte J. Conroy Dissertation Prize!

More information HERE: mjha.org/Prizes
March 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Attending AAS in Columbus?

Join MJHA for our meeting-in-conjunction on Saturday, March 15 from 12:15-1:45 in Hyatt Room Union D!

Meet fellow MJHA members and discuss plans for the upcoming year!
March 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
On Thursday!

Thomas Conlan (Princeton University) on his new book “Kings in All but Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569” in conversation with Adam Clulow (University of Texas).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5866859
February 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In a week!

Research Seminar #3: The Future of High School History Education in Japan with Mr. Kawashima Keiichi (Doshisha High School), Prof. Narita Ryuichi (Emeritus Prof., Nihon Women's U), and Sayaka Chatani (Associate Prof., Nat'l U of Singapore).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5974354
February 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
MJHA is thrilled to announce that the 2025 Modern Japan History Association Book Prize has been awarded to Ryo Morimoto's book "Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone"!

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mjha.org/Book-Prize
February 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
In one week!

Michiko Suzuki (University of Tokyo) on her new book “Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire: The Global Evolution of the Japanese Red Cross Movement, 1877–1945”, in conversation with Jessamyn Abel (Pennsylvania State University).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5763612
January 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
MJHA is thrilled to announce the three finalists for the 2025 Modern Japan History Association Book Prize!

Congratulations to Matthew Augustine, Ryo Morimoto, and Jun Uchida for their excellent work!

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January 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
We are delighted to announce that MJHA's inaugural F. Hilary Conroy First Book Prize has been awarded to Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne) for her book "When Death Falls Apart: Making and Umaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan"!
January 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
On Tuesday, next week!

Fang Yu Hu (Cal Poly Pomona) and Tadashi Ishikawa (Central Florida) on their new books “Good Wife, Wise Mother” and “Geographies of Gender”, respectively, in conversation with Seiji Shirane (City College of New York).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5838693
January 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Charlotte J. Conroy Dissertation Prize has been awarded to John Kanbayashi for his dissertation "Hydraulic Taiwan: Colonial Conservation under Japanese Imperial and Chinese Nationalist Rule, 1895-1964"!
January 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM