Rotem Kowner

Rotem Kowner is an historian and professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. A founder and first chair of the Department of Asian Studies at the same university, his research interests include wartime behavior in modern Japan, race and racism in modern East Asia, naval history. His recent and forthcoming publications include Tsushima (Oxford University Press, 2022), Shiro kara kiiro e: Yoroppajin no jinshu shisō kara mita ‘Nihonjin’ no hakken (Akashi Shoten, 2022), the coedited volume Out of Line, Out of Place: A Global and Local History of World War I Internments (Cornell University Press, 2022) and Jewish Communities in Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2023).