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I am a historian who joined the Communication Department almost ten years ago. My early work was on modern Japan, and I still write on modern Japan and problems of Asia. My overriding interest in history has been the uses of the past. My first book, Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History, naively examines the reconfiguration of the…[Read more]