Spencer Cohen is a reporter in the New York Bureau of a Japanese newspaper. He also writes for The Japan Times and was previously based in Tokyo.
Spencer Cohen
Articles
On Photographing at Memorials
Spencer Cohen thinks about the ramifications of photographing aesthetic memorials.
“What are they trying to protect?” A Conversation with Eika Tai on Denying the Oppression of “Comfort Women”
Spencer Cohen talks with Eika Tai on denialism by the Japanese government and, recently, Harvard scholar J. Mark Ramseyer about WWII "comfort women."
The Waning Promise of Tokyo 2020
Spencer Cohen thinks about the boon of the Olympics and what it means to miss out.
Pearl Harbor in Film and Myth: 79 Years Later
Spencer Cohen inspects the construction of the Pearl Harbor mythos in the American cultural imagination.
Hiroshima in the Age of Virtual Remembrance
Spencer Cohen takes a look at how the shockwaves of the Hiroshima atomic bomb reverberate 75 years later — during a pandemic.
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