Japan-in-Asia Cultural Studies Program
「アジアの中の日本文化」プログラム
Contact
Field
Modern Japanese History
Position
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities
Education
Ph.D. University of Oregon, 2014
MA University of Oregon, 2008
BA University of Oregon, 2007
BA Oregon State University, 2005
BA Oregon State University, 2005
Research Interests
Modern Japanese history, colonialism, architecture, urban planning, film, pop culture.
About Me
I am an historian of Modern Japan, focusing on urban and environmental history. My book manuscript, Empire by Design: Tokyo and the Building of Japanese Modernity, charts the respacing of the built environment of Tokyo under the process of Japanese state-formation and empire-building in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Prior to joining Nagoya University in 2022, I held teaching and research positions at Pacific University, Yale University, the University of British Columbia, Harvard University, and Bowdoin College. In 2017-2018, I organized and hosted the UBC Meiji at 150 Project with the collaboration of colleagues in the Centre for Japanese Research, Department of Asian Studies, the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, the Museum of Anthropology, and the Asian Library at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. As part of this project I co-curated, edited, and constructed the Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource, compiling over a dozen visual essays by scholars from Japan and North America highlighting digitized materials related to Japanese history at UBC. I also hosted and produced the Meiji at 150 Podcast, featuring interviews with prominent scholars of Japanese history, literature, and cultural studies from around the globe.
Tristan R. GRUNOW
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Grunow, Tristan R., and Naoko Kato, eds. Digital Meijis: Revisualizing Modern Japanese History at 150. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library, 2018 (e-textbook).
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“Reconstructing State-Formation and Empire-Building in Meiji Japan,” Chapter 12 in Revisiting Japan’s Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation, edited By Timothy Amos an Akiko Ishii (New York, NY: Routledge, 2021).
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“Podcasting During The Pandemic and Beyond,” in Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic, edited by David Kenley (Columbia University Press, 2020).
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“Cultivating Settler Colonial Space in Korea: Public Works and the Urban Environment under Japanese Rule,” International Journal of Korean History 25, no. 1 (February, 2020): 85-121.
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“Pebbles of Progress: Streets and Urban Modernity in Early Meiji Tokyo,” Japan Forum 34, no. 1 (2022): 53-78.
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“Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond,” Critical Asian Studies 51, no. 4 (2019): 597-636.
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“Paving Power: Western Urban Planning and Imperial Space from the Streets of Meiji Tokyo to Colonial Seoul,” Journal of Urban History 42, no. 3 (May 2016): 506-556.
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“Trains, Modernity, and State-Formation in Meiji Japan,” in Trains, Culture, and Mobility: Riding the Rails, edited by Benjamin Fraser, and Steven D. Spalding, 235-261 (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 2011).
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“A Re-examination of the ‘Shock of Hiroshima’: The Japanese Bomb Projects and the Surrender Decision.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 12 (Fall-Winter, 2003): 155-189. (Published as a back-issue in 2008).
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“Japan’s Meiji Restoration." Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. January, 2023.
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“Building and Street Use Codes in the Japanese Empire.” Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire.
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“‘Making it Count’: The Case for Digital Scholarship in Asian Studies.” #AsiaNow, June 9, 2020.
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“Ginza Bricktown and the Myth of Meiji Modernization.” UBC Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource, 2019.
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The Wildest Night in Vancouver Public History Resource and Podcast, 2019.
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“Pushing the Margins: New Perspectives on the Japanese Nation-Empire,” The Journal of Asian Studies 79, no. 2 (May 2020): 493-501.
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“Mapping the Elephant: Towards a Spatial History of the Japanese Empire,” Journal of Urban History 42, no. 6 (November, 2016): 1163-1180.
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Review of Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan, by Kate McDonald. Pacific Affairs 91, no. 3 (September, 2018).
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Review of Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary, by Michael P. Cronin. Pacific Affairs 91, no. 1 (March, 2018): 163-165.
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Review of Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to Present, edited by Bruce L. Batten, and Philip C. Brown. Environmental History 21, no. 1 (January, 2016): 151-153.
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Review of Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, & Politics in Japan, 1870-1950, by Robert Stolz. Environmental History 20, no. 4 (October, 2015): 820-822.
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Review of In the Eye of the Wind: A Travel Memoir of Prewar Japan, by Ron Baenninger and Martin Baenninger. Journal of Historical Biography 8 (Autumn, 2010): 103-105.
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