Current Research
Professor Barak Kushner
Modern East Asian history - including Japan, Taiwan, and China - in particular the wartime, postwar imperial dissolution of the Japanese Empire, and the Cold War in East Asia, as well as history of war crimes, memory politics and the pursuit of justice.
Dr Laura Moretti
Early-modern Japanese popular literature as well as paleography and history of the book
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Discovering Japanese Seventeenth-Century Popular Prose
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Tackling Pandemics in Early Modern Japan
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Japanese Early-Modern Palaeography
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At the Roots of Visual Japan
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A Savvy Publisher in Early-Modern Japan: Urokogataya and the art of repackaging
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A New Facet of Early-Modern Ephemera: the world of kobanzuke