Julian Victor Koschmann is Professor Emeritus of Japanese History at the Department of History at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

. His primary field of expertise is the

history of Japan The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to prehistoric times around 30,000 BC. The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inven ...

. He earned his B.A. at

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in 1965, his M.A. at Sophia University in 1971, and his Ph.D at the

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in 1980. Koschmann is interested in the nexus between political thought and action, primarily but not exclusively in twentieth-century Japan. In his most recent work he explored new perspectives on thought and action during Japan’s war years (1931–45), in the context of themes such as

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, the discourse on

economic ethics Economic ethics is the combination of economics and ethics that unites value judgements from both disciplines to predict, analyze, and model economic phenomena. It encompasses the theoretical ethical prerequisites and foundations of economic syste ...

colonialism Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their relig ...

, and

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

movements. Koschmann is also interested in the rise and decline of citizens’ and other new social movements in postwar Japan and elsewhere, especially in relation to the rise of

neoliberalism Neoliberalism (also neo-liberalism) is a term used to signify the late 20th century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism after it fell into decline following the Second World War. A prominent fa ...

; the history of

Marxism Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

; and the dynamics of empire.

Selected publications

''Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ''The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790-1864'' (Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1987). ''Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders'' (London: Routledge, 2007. Co-edited with Sven Saaler. ''Total War and ‘Modernization’'', Cornell East Asia Series 100 (Ithaca, Cornell University East Asia Program, 1998). Co-edited with Yasushi Yamanouchi and Ryûichi Narita. ''Conflict in Modern Japanese History: The Neglected Tradition'' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982). Co-edited with

Tetsuo Najita was an American historian. Biography A nisei, Najita was raised in Hawaii. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1958, and was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. While in Grinnell, he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Najita completed a doctorate ...

. “Shutaisei to dôin” ubjectivity and mobilization trans. Kasai Hirotaka, in ''Sengo to iu chiseigaku'' eopolitics of postwar edited by Nishikawa Yûko (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2006), pp. 43–68. “Modernization and Democratic Values: The ‘Japanese Model’ in the 1960s,” in ''Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War'', edited by David C. Engerman, Nils Gilman, Mark Haefele, and Michael E. Latham (Amherst, MA:

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, 2003), 225-249. “Tekunorojii no shihai, shihai no tekunorojii” ule by technology, technologies of rule translated by Kasai Hirotaka, in ''Sôryokusen no chi to seido, 1935-55'' nowledge and Institutions of Total War, 1935–55), edited by Sakai Naoki [Kindai Nihon bunkashi 7(Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2002), 139-71.

References

External links

Koschmann's faculty page at Cornell
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