Jeff Kingston is the Director of Asian Studies and Professor of History at Temple University Japan. He has written extensively on modern Japan including a second edition of his monograph Contemporary Japan ( 2013) and his edited volume, Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan (2014) which has just been published. He also writes a weekly column "Counterpoint" for the Japan Times.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A High-Stakes Gamble: Jeff Kingston on Eri Hotta’s Japan 1941
ERI HOTTA'S lucid analysis of Japan’s march to war against the United States in December 1941 resonates uncannily with Europe’...
Krys Lee on South Korea, Writing, and Disaster
From "Around the World"...
Japan’s Capital Unveiled
Tokyo is hot, and Tokyo is cool....
