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Barak Kushner

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Barak Kushner (born 7 April 1968) is an American historian, orientalist, and translator. He is a Professor of East Asian History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He has written and edited numerous books and articles and has spoken on a range of East Asian history topics including Japanese imperial propaganda, the Japanese empire in East Asia, Japanese war crimes, and justice in East Asia. He has also written on other subjects, ranging from Godzilla and Japanese humor to ramen and the Chinese influence on early twentieth century notions of modern cuisine in Japan.[1] Kushner is married to Mami Mizutori[2] Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). He speaks and reads Chinese, English, French, Japanese.

Education

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BA, Brandeis University, 1990 PhD, Princeton University, 2002

Monographs

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Edited Volumes

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Translated Books

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The Asahi Shimbun Company, Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th-Century Japan (London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2015, translated and edited by Barak Kushner with a foreword by Funabashi Yoichi), 320 pages.

Awards and honors

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  • John K. Fairbank Prize for best book in East Asian History
  • Cambridge DAAD German Research Hub Award
  • Sophie Coe Prize for Food History

References

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  1. ^ [1], Barak Kushner Official Site, retrieved 2018-02-06.
  2. ^ Class of 1990 BrandeisMAGAZINE