Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Tetsuo Najita, Ph.D.
Robert S. Ingersolll Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Teaching/Research Interests:
Eighteenth-century Tokugawa thought, the history of early modern and modern Japan, and the intellectual history of politics (seiji shisoshi).
Selected publications:
Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudo Merchant Academy of Osaka (1987 and 1997), winner of Yamagata Banto Prize (1990); translated into Japanese by Iwanami Press (1992).
"Traditional Cooperatives in Modern Japan: Rethinking Alternatives to Cosmopolitanism and Nativism," Development and Change (27.2:1996).
"Ambiguous Encounters: Ogata Koan and International Studies in Late Tokugawa Osaka," in Osaka, The Merchant's Capital of Early
Modern Japan, edited by James L. McClain and Wakita Osamu, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999.
Edited Tokugawa Political Writings, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Courses:
- Japanese Intellectual History
- Introduction to Politics and Culture in Modern Japan
- Tokugawa Intellectual History
- Modern Japanese History
