I am a host for the New Books in East Asian Studies, New Books in Japanese Studies, and New Books in Food podcasts, all members of the New Books Network. You can (should!) subscribe in all the usual podcast places. The RSS is here.

Note: We recently added separate China, Japan, and Korea channels to the East Asian channel, but NBEAS will remain as an aggregator and for books that don't comfortably fit within the borders of one country.

There is a full list of my past episodes on the NBN site as well.

Complete

• John Person, Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan (Hawaiʻi, 2020)

• Kenneth J. Ruoff, Japan’s Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019 (Harvard 2020)

• Jürgen P. Melzer, Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation (Harvard 2020)

• Dennis J. Frost, More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan (Cornell 2020)

• Sarah Kovner, Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps (Harvard 2020)

• Winifred Bird, Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes (Stone Bridge Press 2021)

• Special roundtable on the student movement in Japan, featuring:
  Naoko Koda, The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948-1973: Managing a Free World (Lexington, 2020)
  Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Co-Ed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left (Duke, 2020)

• Eika Tai, Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State (HKU, 2020)

• David Fedman, Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (Washington, 2020)

• John Traphagan, Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan (Cambria, 2020)

• Nozomi Naoi, Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan (Washington, 2020)

• Elisheva A. Perelman, American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan (HKU, 2020)

• Katarzyna Cwiertka and Miho Yasuhara, Branding Japanese Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku (Hawaiʻi, 2020)

• Alexander Bukh, These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia (Stanford, 2020)

• David Ambaras, Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire (Cambridge, 2018)

• Erin Schoneveld. Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant-Garde (Brill, 2019)

• Jeremy Yellen, The Greater East Asia CoProsperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell, 2019)

• Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg, Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace (Cambridge, 2019)

• Jolyon Thomas, Faking Liberties: Religious freedom in American-occupied Japan (Chicago, 2019)

• Max Ward, Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (Duke, 2019)

• Danny Orbach, Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan (Cornell, 2017)

• Chika Watanabe, Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar (Hawaiʻi, 2019)

• Jakobina Arch, Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan (Washington, 2018)

• Jennifer Dixon, Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan (Cornell, 2018)

• Kerim Yasar, Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 (Columbia, 2018)

• Maren A. Ehlers, Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan (Harvard, 2018)

• Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan (Cornell, 2018)

• Sayaka Chatani, Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies (Cornell, 2018)

• Emily Baum, The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China (Chicago, 2018)

• Laura Neitzel, The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan (MerwinAsia, 2016)

• Nick Kapur, Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo (Harvard, 2018)

• N.A.J. Taylor and R. Jacobs, eds., Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War (Routledge, 2017)

• Kate McDonald, Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (California, 2017)

Upcoming

I've got the following great books in my queue:

• Kathryn Hemmann, Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

• Sidney Xu Lu, The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge, 2019)

• Grace E. Lavery, Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan (Princeton 2019)

• Timothy M. Yang, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan (Cornell 2021)

• Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll (Bloomsbury 2021)

• Nana Okura Gagné, Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism (Cornell 2020)

• Josep Lluis Barona, Nutritional Policies and International Diplomacy: The Impact of Tadasu Saiki and the Imperial State Institute of Nutrition (Tokyo, 1916-1945) (Peter Lang 2021)

• Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago 2021)

• Orion Klautau and Hans Martin Krämer, eds, Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan (Hawaiʻi 2021)

• Christopher Gerteis, Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (Cornell 2021)

• Harumi Goto-Shibata, The League of Nations and the East Asian Imperial Order, 1920–1946 (Springer Nature 2020)

• John Gripentrog, Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Ideology and Culture in US-Japan Relations, 1919-1941 (Rowman & Littlefield 2021)

• Peter Kornicki, Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan (C. Hurst & Co. 2021)

If you are interested in being interviewed about your new book, please contact me.

Guests

If you're already signed up for an interview, here's a brief guide (PDF) by podcast founder Marshall Poe about to what to expect and how to prepare. If you have further questions, please let me know.

A few things that people always ask about:

• Yes, we do postproduction. So if you get nervous or tripped up or the connection fails, no worries.

• No, you don't need any special software. We use the online platform Zencastr to record the podcast. But yes, if that fails, Plan B is Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, etc.

• Yes, you should have a good microphone and earphones. But no, you don't need to purchase something special just for the podcast. Generally, any modern laptop will have a sufficient mike, and even earbuds are OK in a pinch. Even more important than hifi audio is a quiet place to record.