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Chrissy Yee Lau

Chrissy Yee Lau is an Assistant Professor of History at California State University - Monterey Bay.

She teaches and researches 20th Century U.S. History, Asian American History, Women’s History, and California History.

She is the author of New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America (University of Washington Press, 2022)

and co-editor of The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (University of California Press, 2021).


William Chou

William Chou is the George P. Shultz Fellow at the Reagan Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in history at The Ohio State University,

where his research focused on diplomacy, trade, and technology.His book manuscript project examines the postwar

U.S.-Japanese alliance from the perspective of Japanese consumer exports and how they reconfigured bilateral security, economic, and cultural relations.

He is also currently working on a chapter, "So My Son Won't Become a Soybean Farmer," for an edited volume on American capitalism in the twentieth century,

addressing transpacific trade and knowledge transfer during the 1970s and 1980s.

Prior to arriving at the Reagan Institute, William was an American in the World postdoctoral fellow at the Clements Center at UT-Austin

and a foreign research scholar at the University of Tokyo. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Nippon Foundation. Previously, William worked at the Army's Center for Military History and the Institute for Defense Analyses, where he researched on projects concerning the Iraq War, interagency intelligence coordination, and capabilities-based defense planning. He received his B.A. in history from Yale University, where he worked as Paul Kennedy's research assistant on his book, Parliament of Man.


高内悠貴(たかうち・ゆき Yuki Takauchi)

Yuki Takauchi is an assistant professor of American Studies at Hirosaki University in Hirosaki City, Japan.

She specializes in the history of US imperialism in the 20th Century Pacific.

She earned her doctorate in History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2021.

Her dissertation, “Okinawan Borderlands: The History of the US Occupation of Okinawa, 1945-1972,”

examines everyday encounters between the Okinawan people—particularly Okinawan women--and the American occupation forces.

Her research has appeared in Pacific and American Studies (2014), Gender and Sexuality: Journal of the Center for Gender Studies, ICU (2015),

and Studies ofAmerican History (2019).


影山優華(かげやま・ゆうか Yuuka Kageyama)

Yuka Kageyama is a PhD student at Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University in Kyoto.

Her research interests include demilitarization and decolonization of security from a gender perspective.

She is currently working to explore intersectional practices of transnational feminist peace movements to challenge the militarized

security.

Her publication includes ”Feminist peace research and feminist peace movements in the United States: Betty Reardon's

antimilitarist-feminist theory and the US section of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom."

Doshisha American Studies 57 (2021: 21-48); "Peacebuilders Need the Concept of 'the Militarist-Sexist Symbiosis'

to Change the Militarized Security System," Global Campaign for Peace Education. (October 27, 2020).


相川裕亮(あいかわ・ゆうすけ Yusuka Aikawa)

Yusuke Aikawa is an assistant professor at Hiroshima University. He is academically specialized in the relationship between Christianity and American politics. Notably, he is interested in the well-known American Evangelist Billy Graham and his influences.

Aikawa’s recent publication is『ビリー・グラハムと「神の下の国家」アメリカ:福音伝道者の政治性』(新教出版社、2022年)(Billy Graham and “One Nation under God” America, Tokyo: Shinkyo Publishing Co., 2022).


森山貴仁(もりやま・たかひと Takahito Moriyama)

Takahito Moriyama is an assistant professor in the Department of British and American Studies at Nanzan University. His research interests lie in modern U.S. history, social movement, and political media, with particular emphasis on conservative marketing in postwar years.

His first book is Empire of Direct Mail: How Conservative Marketing Persuaded Voters and Transformed the Grassroots (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2022), which examines the roles of political consultants and direct marketing in the rise of conservatism from the 1950s to the 1970s. As the second project, Moriyama is currently working on papers concerning minority conservatives, such as Black conservatives and Latino Republicans, who have challenged liberal Democrats since the period of the civil rights movement.

Moriyama earned his B.A. from Osaka University, M.A. from Kyoto University, and Ph.D. from Florida State University, receiving financial assistance for his research from the Fulbright program, the American Historical Association, and other institutions.


長史隆(ちょう・ふみたか Fumitaka Cho)

Fumitaka Cho is a part-time lecturer at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. He earned his Ph.D. last year and published a book (『「地球社会」時代の日米関係——「友好的競争」から「同盟」へ 1970-1980年』有志舎、2022年) this year. The book explores US-Japan relations in the 1970s with a broader view than the early literature to examine how the emergence of transnational/global awareness encouraged the Americans and the Japanese to expand their partnership into mutual collaboration politically, economically, culturally, and socially. His book addresses not only traditional realm of diplomacy between the two governments but also hitherto unattended connections between the two societies: i.e., collaboration and friction over such issues as Indochinese refugees, whale/dolphin hunting, human rights, and democracy. Fumitaka spent a year in Washington D.C. from 2016 to 2017 as a visiting scholar at The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, The George Washington University. He is going to become a full-time lecturer at Hiroshima City University from next April.


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イサミ・ロメロ (Romero Isami)

Isami Romero (イサミ・ロメロ)

Isami Romero is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. He is a specialist in the diplomatic history of Japan and Latin America during the 1950s and 1960s. His current research focuses on Japanese foreign policy toward Cuba, after 1959 Revolution. This research examines why the Ikeda government did not break off diplomatic relations with the Castro regime.

His publications include: “Hacia una examinación del papel de México como potencia media: el caso de la Crisis de Guatemala de 1954,” Iberoamericana 30, no.2 (2010); “Conflicto y conciliación: las relaciones méxico-guatemaltecas de la década de 1960,” Waseda Global Forum, no.7 (2010); “¿Reencuentro fortuito? Japón, América Latina y la ocupación,” istor, no.51(2012); “La política exterior de Japón hacia Cuba durante la primera mitad de la década de 1960: ¿un intento de una diplomacia autónoma?,” Iberoamericana 38, no.1 (2016); “Una “historia olvidada”: la negociación del acuerdo comercial cubano-japonés de

1954,” Anales de Estudios Latinoamericanos, no.39 (2019); 「日本とキューバ革命:1959 年のゲバラ使節団」『国際政治』第207号 (2022年) (Japan and Cuban Revolution: Guevara’s Mission of 1959).


Some more at: http://univ.obihiro.ac.jp/~romero/english/publicationenglish.html


長史隆(ちょう・ふみたか Fumitaka Cho)

Fumitaka Cho is a part-time lecturer at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. He earned his Ph.D. last year and published a book (『「地球社会」時代の日米関係——「友好的競争」から「同盟」へ 1970-1980年』有志舎、2022年) this year. The book explores US-Japan relations in the 1970s with a broader view than the early literature to examine how the emergence of transnational/global awareness encouraged the Americans and the Japanese to expand their partnership into mutual collaboration politically, economically, culturally, and socially. His book addresses not only traditional realm of diplomacy between the two governments but also hitherto unattended connections between the two societies: i.e., collaboration and friction over such issues as Indochinese refugees, whale/dolphin hunting, human rights, and democracy. Fumitaka spent a year in Washington D.C. from 2016 to 2017 as a visiting scholar at The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, The George Washington University. He is going to become a full-time lecturer at Hiroshima City University from next April.