Jeffrey "Jeff" Kingston (born June 26, 1957) is an American professor at Temple University, Japan Campus in Tokyo and an author. He has written a number of books, wrote regularly for The Japan Times, and frequently comments on Asian affairs in mass media outlets.

Jeff Kingston
BornJune 26, 1957 (1957-06-26) (age 67)
OccupationWriter, professor
LanguageEnglish
Alma materColumbia University
SubjectJapan, Asia

Early life and studies

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He graduated with a BS in foreign service from Georgetown University in 1979. He then completed an MA in international affairs in 1981 and a PhD in history, both from Columbia University.[1]

Academic career

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Kingston was the founding director of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan Campus in Tokyo.[2]

Writing

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Kingston has published a number of academic volumes about Japan, nationalism, religion, and civil society in Asia. He started writing for The Japan Times in 1988, and had a weekly column called "Counterpoint" from 2013 until 2017.[3] He has contributed opinion pieces to Financial Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Nikkei Asian Review, Washington Post, and The Mekong Review. He also writes for The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.[4]

Views

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Kingston has been a consistent critic of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and his moves to amend Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which restricts Japan's military[5][6] and on Abe's historical revisionism about Japanese war crimes.[7][8][9]

Bibliography

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Books written

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  • The Politics of Religion, Nationalism, and Identity in Asia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
  • Japan (Polity Press, 2019)
  • Contemporary Japan: History, Politics and Social Change Since the 1980s (Wiley-Blackwell 2010, 2012)
  • Japan in transformation 1945–2020 (Routledge,2021)
  • Japan in transformation 1945–2010 (Pearson, 2010)
  • Japan in transformation 1952–2000 (Longmans, 2001)
  • Kokka Saisei (Hayakawa 2005)
  • Japan's quiet transformation: Social change and civil society in the 21st century (2004)

Edited volumes

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia (Routledge 2023)
  • Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019) (Routledge 2022)
  • Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia (Routledge 2019)
  • Japan's Foreign Relations in Asia (Routledge 2018)
  • Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan (Routledge, 2017)
  • Asian Nationalism since 1945 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
  • Contemporary Japanese Politics (4 volumes) (2013)
  • Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recover After Japan's 3/11 (2012)
  • Tsunami: Japan's Post-Fukushima Future (Foreign Policy, 2011)

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