Takashi Fujitani
Retired Professor
Inaugural Dr. David Chu Chair in Asia Pacific Studies, Asian Institute
Biography
Main bio
A graduate of UC Berkeley, Professor Fujitani comes to the University of Toronto from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a professor of modern Japanese history for two decades. Professor Fujitani’s books include Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 1996), Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s) (Duke University Press, 2001), and Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans in WWII (University of California Press, 2011). He has held numerous grants and fellowships, including from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Stanford Humanities Center, and Social Science Research Council. He is also editor of the series Asia Pacific Modern (UC Press).
Select publications
- Fujitani, T. (2024). Antinomies of Agency: Liberalism and Asia. Journal of Social History, 57(3), 411-419.
- Fujitani, T. (2024). Feeling Freedom: Japanese and American Wartime Films on the Liberation of the Philippines, 1943–45. Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana
- Diaz, R., Fujitani, T., Isaac, A. P., Kim, C., & Mecija, C. (2023). Critical Race Studies Now: Teaching Anti-Asian Racism within and outside of Institutions. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 7(3), 315-324.
- Fujitani, T. (2020). Empire’s Tracks. Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad. The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 111(2/3), 113-113.
- Fujitani, T. (2018). Feeling freedom: Japanese and American wartime films on the liberation of the Philippines, 1943–1945. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 19(4), 510-525.
- Sand, J., Azuma, E., Benton-Cohen, K., Fujitani, T., Chang, D. A., & Uchida, J. (2016). Pacific Empires Working Group Forum. Amerasia Journal, 42(3), 1-41.
- Fujitani, T. (2016). A Different Kind of 'Asia Pivot'. Amerasia Journal, 42(3), 17-22.
- Fujitani, T. (2016). Unwilling to Work Under a ‘Zombie’: Mass Dictatorship and Normative Choice in Japan, the United States and Canada During the Second World War. In The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship, 371-384.
- Fujitani, T. (2015). Post-imperial Japan from a transnational perspective. In Memories of post-imperial nations: The aftermath of decolonization, 1945- 2013
- Fujitani, T. (2013). Jun Uchida. Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945. The American Historical Review, 118(3), 833-834.
- Fujitani, T., & Kwon, N. (2012). Introduction to "Transcolonial Film Coproductions in the Japanese Empire". Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 1(5).
- Fujitani, T. (2011). Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II. University of California Press.
- Fujitani, T. (2007). Right to kill, right to make live: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during WWII. Representations, 99(1), 13-39.
- Fujitani, T. (2006). Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 66(2), 552-559.
- Fujitani, T. (2004). Inventing, forgetting, remembering. Race, ethnicity and migration in modern Japan: Race, ethnicity and culture in modern Japan
- Daniels, R., Nomura, G., Fujitani, T., Hohri, W., Emi, F. S., & Kuromiya, Y. (2002). A Matter of Conscience: Essays on the World War II Heart Mountain Draft Resistance Movement. Western History Publications.
- Fial, G., & Fujitani, T. (2001). Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan. The American Historical Review, 106(5), 1780-1781.
- Fujitani, T. (2001). The Reischauer Memo: Mr. Moto, Hirohito, and Japanese American Soldiers. Critical Asian Studies, 33(3), 379-402.
- Fujitani, T., White, G., & Yoneyama, L. (2001). Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). Duke University Press.
- Fujitani, T. (2001). Go for broke, the movie: Japanese
