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Professional and Personal Interests
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Professor Yamamoto has been interested in the history of ideas that have tangibly shaped social, cultural, and political policies. While this includes studies of social, cultural, and political philosophies, it also goes beyond philosophical discussions to the thought and behavior of people "on the ground." He has done research on Japanese social, cultural, and political developments leading up to the Pacific War with an eye toward these themes. He is also doing research that casts the net more globally to look at various responses to the European Enlightenment and the modernities that are often perceived as arising from it.
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- World History
- History of Modern Japan
- Enlightenment Modernity and Its Discontents
- Origins and Consequences of the Pacific War
- Ideology and Conflict
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- Association for Asian Studies
- American Historical Association
- The Historical Society
- Conference on Faith and History
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The historical developments of voices around the world disagreeing with various ideas and institutions attributed to the Enlightenment.
The evolution of social, cultural, and political attitudes of Japanese parliamentary elites in the period between the two world wars.
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Published
- Yamamoto,
Genzo. "Navigating the Euro-American Enlightenment:
Japan and the Modern World." In Japanese and Asian
Modernities, edited by Rein Rand. London: Kegan Paul,
2005.
- Yamamoto,
Genzo. Review of The People's Emperor: Democracy and
the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995, by Kenneth J. Ruoff.
Journal of Asian Studies 61:4 (2002): 1384-86.
- Yamamoto,
Genzo. "The Pacific War as Civilizational Conflict?"
Historically Speaking 4:1 (2002):26-28.
- Yamamoto,
Genzo. Review of Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition
and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan, by Peter
Wetzler. Pacific Affairs 73:2 (2000): 300-301.
Presentations
- "Competing Christian Criticisms of Western Modernity: Examples from Korea and Japan, Baylor University 2005 Pruit Memorial Symposium on Global Christianity: Challenging Modernity and the West, November 10-12, 2005.
- "Navigating
the Euro-American Enlightenment: Japan and the Modern
World," Japan and Modernization Conference, University
of Helsinki, Finland, November 11-14, 2002.
- "Navigating
the European Enlightenment: A Path Toward War?" Reischauer
Institute Collaborative Research Project, "Tumultuous
Decade: Japan's Challenge to the International System
in the 1930s," Harvard University, September 28,
2002.
- Discussant
for panel on: "Questioning Racial and Ethnic Identities,"
at Conference on "Blacks and Asians: Encounters Through
Time and Space," African American Studies Program,
Boston University, April 12, 2002.
- "Japanese
Prewar Political Philosophy and Its Implications for East
Asian and International Relations," Korea Development
Institute School of International Policy and Management,
Seoul, Korea. June 11, 1999.
- "Defending
Japan's Civilization and Civilizing Mission in Asia: The
Resilience and Triumph of Illiberalism in the House of
Peers, 1919-1934." Reischauer Institute of Japanese
Studies, Harvard University. March 19, 1999.
- "Origins
of the Pacific War." Carnegie Council on Ethics and
International Affairs Faculty Development Seminar on "Great
Power Responsibility in World Affairs." May 1, 1998.
- "The
Power and Resilience of Elite Illiberalism: The Japanese
Aristocracy and Universal Manhood Suffrage." 1996
AAS Conference Panel on "Taisho Illiberalism."
April, 1996.
- "The
Political Philosophy of the Japanese Aristocracy: The
1925 Universal Suffrage Bill Deliberations." International
Studies Colloquium, Yale University. April, 1995.
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