Janis Mimura
- Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002)
- janis.mimura@stonybrook.edu
- Office
- SBS N-325
- Phone
- 631-632-7511
- Fax
- 631-632-7367
- Research Interests
Janis Mimura is a historian of modern Japan with research interests in political and intellectual history and comparative political economy. At Stony Brook she teaches survey courses on Japanese history and theme seminars on the Asia-Pacific War, postwar Japan, 1960s student movements, and comparative fascism and modernity.
Janis’ current book project, “Planning For Empire: Fascism, Manchukuo, and the Japanese State, 1931-1945” examines the emergence of a new technocratic ethos and mode of power in wartime Japan and analyzes its complex links to Japanese fascism. Focusing on the ideas and policies of the reform bureaucrats under Kishi Nobusuke, it explores their embrace of fascist ideas and policies in the creation of the Japan controlled Manchukuo and Japan’s wartime system.
Her broader research interests include comparative German and Japanese transwar history, geopolitics, and postwar technocracy and popular protest.
- Publications
"Technology Bureaucrats and the New Order for Science-Technology," in Harald Fuess, ed., The Japanese Empire in East Asia and its Postwar Legacy (München: iudicium, 1998)
"Review of Laura Hein, Reasonable Men, Powerful Words (2004)," in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 38:2 (2007).
"Review of David Ambaras, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006)," Social History, 32:1 (2007).