Upcoming Event: Aizu Bushidō, Friday February 15, 4:00 PM

Join us on Friday, February 15th for a public lecture by renowned historian of early modern Japan, Dr. Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi!


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Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi is Professor Emeritus at York University.  His work has ranged from Tokugawa intellectual history to Japanese war crimes. Major publications include Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986), Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995), Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), co-edited with Timothy Brook; and  The Nanking Atrocity: Complicating the Picture (New York: Berghahn Books, 2nd edition 2017).