Vita
Tak Fujitani teaches and conducts research across a range of topics and
fields, especially focusing on modern and contemporary Japanese history,
East Asian history, and transnational history (primarily U.S./Japan and
Asia Pacific). Much of his past and current research has centered on the
intersections of nationalism, colonialism, war, racism, ethnicity, and
gender, as well as the disciplinary and area studies boundaries that have
figured our ways of studying these issues. He received his A.B., M.A.,
and Ph.D. degrees in history from UC, Berkeley. Before coming to UCSD
in 1992, he taught at UC, Santa Cruz. Outside of UCSD, he serves as editor
for the series Asia Pacific Modern (UC Press), Advisory Board
member of the Stanford Humanities Center, and Editorial Board member of
Japanese Studies. He has also served on UC Press' editorial committee
and in various positions in the Association for Asian Studies. Fujitani's
research has been supported by the John J. Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS,
Stanford Humanities Center, SSRC, NEH, Kyoto University Institute for
Research in the Humanities, UC Humanities Research Institute, UC President's
Research Fellowship in the Humanities, American Philosophical Society,
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and a number of doctoral fellowships.
His publications have appeared in Japanese, Korean and English.
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Publications
Books and Other Edited Works:
- Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s), co-edited with
Geoffrey White and Lisa Yoneyama (Duke University Press, 2001).
- Japanese Civilization in the Modern World: Nation-state and Empire,
an issue of Senri Ethnological Studies, co-edited with Umesao
Tadao and Kurimoto Eisei (Japan National Museum of Ethnology).
- Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan,
(University of California Press, 1996). Korean translation from Yeesan
Press, 2003.
- Tenno no pejento: kindai Nihon no rekishi minzokushi kara
(The Emperor's Pageants: A Historical Ethnography of Modern Japan),
NHK Books (Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai, 1994) [core of Splendid Monarchy,
with with additional chapter].
Other Representative Publications:
- "Right to Kill, Right to Make Live: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese
as Americans in the Asia Pacific War" (in Japanese), in Kurasawa
Aiko, et. al., Doin, teiko, yokusan (Mobilization, Resistance,
Assistance), Iwanami koza: Ajia-taiheiyo senso (Iwanami Lectures:
The Asia-Pacific War), vol. 8 (Iwanami Shoten, forthcoming early 2006).
- "Imperial Succession Panic: The Politics of Gender, Blood and
Race in Contemporary Japan," in Amy M. Thernstrom, ed., Japanese
Women: Lineages and Legacies (Woodrow Wilson Center, forthcoming
2005).
- "Humanism, Universalism, and Racism in Late Colonial 'Korean'
Films: The Case of Imai Tadashi" (in Korean), in Yonsei University
Institute of Media & Art, ed., Aesthetics and Historical Imagination
of Korean Cinema (Sodo, forthcoming 2005).
- "Shocho tennosei no mirai ni tsuite" (On the Future of the
Symbolic Monarchy), in Amino Yoshihiko, et. al., ed., Nihon wa doko
e yuku no ka (Whither Japan?), Nihon no rekishi (History
of Japan), vol. 25 (Kodansha, 2003).
- "Senka no jinshushugi: dainiji taisenki no 'Chosen shusshin Nihon
kokumin' to 'Nikkei Amerikajin'" (Racism Under Fire: 'Korean Japanese'
and 'Japanese Americans' in WWII), in Narita Ryuichi, et. al., ed.,
Kanjo, kioku, senso (Sentiment, Memory, War), Iwanami Koza:
kindai Nihon no bunkashi (Iwanami Lectures: The Cultural History
of Modern Japan), vol. 8 (Iwanami Shoten, 2002).
- "'Go for Broke', The Movie: Japanese American Soldiers in U.S.
National, Military and Racial Discourses," in Perilous Memories.
- "The Masculinist Bonds of Nation and Empire: The Discourse on
Korean 'Japanese' Soldiers in the Asia Pacific War," in Japanese
Civilization in the Modern World: Nation-state and Empire. [Japanese
translation, Kansai Gakuin Press].
- "Raishawaa no kairai tennosei koso" (Reischauer's Plan for
a Puppet Regime Emperor System), Sekai 672 (March 2000). [Korean
translation, Silch'on munhak 61 (15 February 2001); expanded
English version, "The Reischauer Memo: Mr. Moto, Hirohito, and
Japanese American soldiers," Critical Asian Studies 33:3
(2001).]
- "Ima minshu o kataru shiten towa: Nihon no minshushi kenkyu to
Indo no sabarutan kenkyu o tsunagu mono" (On Narrating the "People":
The "People's History" in Japan and Subaltern Studies), conversation
with Yasumaru Yoshio, Sekai 663 (July 1999).
- "Minshushi as Crititque of Orientalist Knowledges," positions
6:2 (Fall 1998). [Slightly different version published in Japanese as
the commentary for the reprint of Yasumaru Yoshio's Nihon no kindaika
to minshu shiso (Heibonsha, 1999)].
- "National Narratives and Minority Politics: The Japanese American
National Museum's War Stories," Museum Anthropology 21:1
(Spring/Summer 1997). [Japanese translation in Bunka koryushi kenkyu
1 (May 1997)].
- "Amerika no 'Nihon'/Amerika kara no koe" (Japanese Studies
in the U.S.), roundtable with Narita Ryuichi and Naoki Sakai, Gendai
shiso 23 (Sept. 1995).
- "Kindai Nihon no okeru kenryoku no tekunorojii: guntai, 'chiho',
shintai" (Technologies of Power in Modern Japan: The Military,
The 'Local', The Body), Shiso 845 (Nov. 1994).
- "Electronic Pageantry and Japan's 'Symbolic Emperor'," Journal
of Asian Studies 51:4 (Nov. 1992).
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