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Jeff Kingston is Director of Asian Studies and Professor of History at Temple University (Japan campus). He is a Japan Focus associate.

He is the author of “Burma’s Despair,” Critical Asian Studies, 40:1 (March 2008), 3-43, several recent articles on East Timor, and Japan’s Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2004).

He also is the editor of Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan’s 3/11, Routledge 2012. He is the author of Contemporary Japan. (2^ndedition), London:Wiley 2013 and Nationalism in Asia: A History Since 1945 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).

Most recently, he wrote The Politics of Religion, Nationalism and Identity (2019) and Japan (2019), edited Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan (2019, rev 2nd ed.) and Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan (2017)) and co-edited Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia (2019) and Japan’s Foreign Relations with Asia (2018).

His current research focuses on transitional justice and the politics of memory.

kingston@tuj.temple.edu

The Emptiness of Japan’s Values Diplomacy in Asia

Special Issue: Pandemic Asia, Part II (Table of Contents)

Introduction: COVID-19 and Authoritarian Creep in South and Southeast Asia

Special Issue: Pandemic Asia, Part I (Table of Contents)

PM Abe’s Floundering Pandemic Leadership

Abe Prioritized Olympics, Slowing Japan’s Pandemic Response

Special Issue: Japan’s Olympic Summer Games - Past and Present, Part II (Table of Contents)

Introduction to the Special Issue on Japan’s Olympic’s Summer Games -- Past and Present, Part II

Special Issue: Japan’s Olympic Summer Games - Past and Present, Part I (Table of Contents)

Introduction to the Special Issue on Japan’s Olympic’s Summer Games -- Past and Present, Part I

Tokyo’s Diversity Olympics Dogged by Controversy

Renewing and Reframing Hiroshima

Nationalism in the Abe Era

Special Issue: Nationalism in the Abe Era (Table of Contents)

The Japan Lobby and Public Diplomacy

Japanese University Humanities and Social Sciences Programs Under Attack

SEALDs: Students Slam Abe’s Assault on Japan’s Constitution

Testy Team Abe Pressures Media in Japan

Abe’s Nuclear Energy Policy and Japan’s Future

After 3.11: Imposing Nuclear Energy on a Skeptical Japanese Public

Self-immolation Protests PM Abe Overturning Japan’s Pacifist Postwar Order

Asano Ken'ichi and Jeff Kingston

Japanese Mass Media Buries Self-Immolation Protest Over Abe Government's Constitutional Coup

Extremists Flourish in Abe's Japan

Japan's Nuclear Village

Mismanaging Risk and the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

Power Politics: Japan’s Resilient Nuclear Village

Ousting Kan Naoto: The Politics of Nuclear Crisis and Renewable Energy in Japan−−

Justice on Trial: Japanese Prosecutors Under Fire

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Tomihisa Taue, Tadatoshi Akiba and Jeff Kingston

The Nuclear Age at 64: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Struggle to End Nuclear Proliferation

After the Whirlwind: Post-Nargis Burma, the 2010 Elections and Prospects for Reform

Nanjing's Massacre Memorial: Renovating War Memory in Nanjing and Tokyo

Tom Hyland and Jeff Kingston

Japan's Nuclear Disaster and Plans to Export Reactors to Indonesia

Convulsions of Nation-Building: Violence-ridden East Timor on the eve of elections

East Timor's Search for Justice and Reconciliation

Peace or Justice? East Timor's Troubled Road

Compensating Colonial Lepers, Slave Laborers and Hibakusha: Troubling Legacies and Evolving Standards of Postcolonial Justice in Japan