Faculty

Yoshikuni Igarashi
Associate Professor of History
Director, East Asian Studies Program

PhD, University of Chicago, 1994

Japanese cultural studies

Telephone: 615-322-3334
Email: yoshikuni.igarashi@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: T 11:00-1:00 pm
Office: Buttrick Hall 242

Yoshikuni Igarashi is a specialist in 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 “Kamikaze: A Mirror of Post-Cold War U.S.-Japan Relations,” Asian Cultural Studies (International Christian University Publication 3-A), forthcoming, and “Dead Bodies and Living Guns: The United Red Army and Its Deadly Pursuit of Revolution, 1971-1972,” Japanese Studies, vol. 27, no. 2 (September 2007).

Courses taught:
157: History of Asian Civilization: Japan
200: The History Workshop
249: History of Modern Japan
250: Cultural and Social History of Japan’s Recent Past
295: Undergraduate Seminar in History
300a-300b: Introduction to Historical Methods and Research
360: Studies in Imperialis

 

 

 

 

 

 

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