In spring of 2022, I had the tremendous privilege to take. a. break. My university granted me a semester leave to conduct research...

In fall 2020, Sophia University's Miura Mari and Doshisha's Okano Yayo invited me to contribute a piece to a special issue of the...

"Government efforts since the mid-1990s have focused on encouraging women to have more children. But even if every woman capable of doing...

Below is an excerpt from an article I wrote for The Nation. See the full text here. "My neighbor and others I’ve chatted with in Tokyo...

Below is an excerpt from an article I wrote for The Nation. See the full text here. "I have thought a lot about the meaning of history...

I've started giving book talks, entirely over Zoom, which can be rather lonely. But I'm also learning a lot about what I wrote about...

On February 25, Jeannie Suk Gersen published an article in The New Yorker entitled "Seeking The True Story of the Comfort Women" (later...

In 1971, a young woman attempted to enter graduate school at Kyoto University. Her undergraduate advisor attempted to dissuade her. This...

Over the past couple years, I've fielded calls from journalists to give comments on topics related to my research on gender and Japanese...

It's very exciting to know that very VERY soon this collection of essays on Japan's "1968" will come out on Verso (November 2021)! I...

Book forthcoming in February 2021!!!! For more, see: https://www.dukeupress.edu/coed-revolution

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is doing a really cool project called History of Science on Call: A series of short...

Recently scholars have been thinking about how temporality figures in violence, and how deep systemic violence often accumulates,...

On March 7, 2020, I was happy that the event I co-organized with Dr. Phoebe Holdgrün of the Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin could take...

Thanks to the tremendous efforts of editors Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield), Lucy Fraser (University of Queensland), and Mark...

Léopold Lambert of The Funambulist invited me to contribute something on the theme of "self-defense," in the context of leftist activism....

A historically high number of women won election to the Japanese Diet's Upper House in the August 2019 elections. This may seem like a...

In June 8th, International Christian University (ICU)'s Prof. Ikoma Natsumi and I organized an "Emergency Symposium" on Academic Freedom...

On August 2, 2018 an article in the Yomiuri shimbun broke the news that Tokyo Medical University has been systematically tampering with...

What makes an "ordinary" person into a historical figure? What process transforms the materials we all accumulate and create in our daily...