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Jeff Kingston

Jeff Kingston is the director of Asian studies at Temple University in Japan.

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Downsizing Shinzō Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe built an image of a creative disruptor. He disrupted a lot, but he didn’t create much....

JEFF KINGSTON

AROUND THE WORLD

POLITICS

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Exhuming Lafcadio Hearn

Jeff Kingston looks at three new books by and on the extraordinary Lafcadio Hearn....

JEFF KINGSTON

AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION

A High-Stakes Gamble: Jeff Kingston on Eri Hotta’s Japan 1941

ERI HOTTA'S lucid analysis of Japan’s march to war against the United States in December 1941 resonates uncannily with Europe’s lemming-like leap to its own destruction in World War I, as described by Christopher Clark in The Sleepwalkers (2013). ...

JEFF KINGSTON

HISTORY

Los Angeles Review of Books

Krys Lee on South Korea, Writing, and Disaster

JEFF KINGSTON

Los Angeles Review of Books

Japan’s Capital Unveiled

JEFF KINGSTON

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