Event details
Mar
19
Fung Public Seminar Series | Normalizing the Anomaly: The U.S. Empire and Historical Amnesia in Post-World War II Japan
2025-26 Fung Global Fellow, Masako Hattori, will present her public seminar, " Normalizing the Anomaly: The U.S. Empire and Historical Amnesia in Post-World War II Japan."
For the past eighty years, the U.S. military has had a wide-ranging impact on Japanese culture and society. While academic scholarship on the topic tends to focus on specific times of war and/or military bases, this talk centers around a Japanese city without military bases and on periods when the United States was not officially involved in “hot” wars, exploring how the U.S. military in the city was accepted and normalized.
For the past eighty years, the U.S. military has had a wide-ranging impact on Japanese culture and society. While academic scholarship on the topic tends to focus on specific times of war and/or military bases, this talk centers around a Japanese city without military bases and on periods when the United States was not officially involved in “hot” wars, exploring how the U.S. military in the city was accepted and normalized.
Speakers
Masako Hattori | 2025-26 Fung Global Fellow; Professor of History, National University of Singapore
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Date
March 19, 2026Time
12:00 p.m.Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building, 144Audience
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