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Expertise
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Work
Work
Hawai'i Regional Cuisine: The Food Movement That Changed the Way Hawaii Eats (University of Hawai'i Press, forthcoming in 2019)
Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 (University of Kansas Press, 2015)
"The 'Food Problem' of Evacuated Children in Wartime Japan, 1942-1945" in Kataryzna Cwiertka, ed., Food in Zones of Conflict (Ashgate, 2013), 131-148
"The Significance of Hawai`i Regional Cuisine in Post-colonial Hawai`i" in Robert Ku et al., Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (NYU, 2013), 98-122
Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese (University of Hawai'i Press, 2005)
"Confucianism and the Japanese State, 1904-45," in Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economy and Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons (Tu Wei-ming, ed., Harvard University Press, 1996)
"Reading the New Tokugawa Intellectual Histories," Journal of Japanese Studies 22, 1-48, Winter 1996
Master Sorai's Responsals: An Annotated Translation of "Sorai Sensei Tomonsho" (University of Hawai'i Press, 1994) & Co-translator, The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought (State University of New York Press, 1993)
Selected Recordings
An August 6, 2005 Weekend Edition interview with Scott Simon about Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese at www.npr.org.
An November 1, 2005 Asia Society of New York interview about Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese at www.asiasource.org.
Selected Films:
My lecture "Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese" is available for purchase on CSPAN-BOOK TV and first aired on November 14, 2005.
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
Frederick Sontag Research Fellowship, 2017-2018
Frederick Sontag Research Fellowship, 2015-2016
Association for Asian Studies, Northeast Asia Council Research Grant, 2011
Frederick Sonntag Research Fellowship, 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2013-2014
Japan Foundation, Professional Fellowship, 1991
Pomona College, Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1986, 1990, 1995, 2001, 2006 and 2011
Harvard University, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1982-1983
Ford Foundation / Social Science Research Council, Foreign Area Fellowship, 1972-1975
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1968