Challenges received notions about women’s political involvement and engagement with the state in Meiji Japan by exploring the activism of members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

Explores the decade-long challenge to reconstruct Kobe after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.

Investigates the impact of American Protestant missions on modern Japan and Japanese-American relations.

Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive study of the social, political, and economic interactions between Canada and Japan from the late nineteenth century until today.