Faculty

Yoshikuni Igarashi
Associate Professor of History
Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies Program

PhD, University of Chicago, 1994

Japanese cultural studies

Telephone: 615-322-3334
Email: yoshikuni.igarashi@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: summer - no office hours
Office: 242 Buttrick Hall

Yoshikuni Igarashi is a specialist in modern Japanese cultural studies.  The radical transformation of Japanese society in the late 1960s and the 1970s has been the focus of his recent research. His recent publications include: “Tsuge Yoshiharu and postwar Japan: travel, memory and nostalgia,” Mechademia 6: The Force of Reception, forthcoming.