Takashi Yoshida
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Dr. Takashi Yoshida received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2001. Dr. Yoshida joined WMU in fall 2002. Prior to coming to WMU, he taught modern Japanese history at Columbia University, Marymount Manhattan College, Pace University, and Yale University. His research focused on war and memory in the Pacific. His research has been supported by competitive grants, including a Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Training Grant, a Columbia University Japan fellowship, and a Toyota Foundation Research Grant.
He is currently completing a book manuscript on the history and memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan, China and the United States from 1937 to the present. Oxford University Press will publish this study. His publications include “Refighting the Nanjing Massacre: The Continuing Struggle Over Memory,” in Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing, ed. Robert Sabella (M.E. Sharpe, 2002); “Victors’ Justice or a Victory for Justice?: An Historical Analysis of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial,” Onrecht: Oorlog en Rechtvaardigheid in de Twintigste Eeuw (Twelfth Yearbook of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation), ed. Madelon de Keizer (2001), and “A Battle Over History; The Nanjing Massacre in Japan,” in The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography, ed. Joshua Fogel (U of California Press, 2000).
In 2004-05, Yoshida offers “Modern Japan” (fall) and “Japanese History through Film and Literature (spring).