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Writer, professor

Alma mater
  
Name
  
Jeff Kingston

Language
  
English

Subject
  
Japan

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Jeffrey "Jeff" Kingston (born June 26, 1957) is an American professor at Temple University in Tokyo and an author. He has written a number of books and writes regularly for The Japan Times and other publications.

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Early life and studies

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

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He is married and his wife's relatives are from Iwate Prefecture, which they visited on their honeymoon in 1982.

Academic career

Kingston is the director of Asian Studies at Temple University in Tokyo.

Writing

Kingston has written for The Japan Times since 1988. He has a weekly column called "Counterpoint". He also writes for The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.

Views

Kingston has been a consistent critic of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and his moves to loosen legal restraints on Japan using force and on Abe's historical revisionism about Japanese war crimes.

Books written

  • Japan's quiet transformation: Social change and civil society in the 21st century. (2004)
  • Contemporary Japan: History, Politics and Social Change Since the 1980s. (2010)(2012)
  • Japan in transformation 1952–2000. (2010)
  • Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recover After Japan's 3/11 (Editor) (2012)
  • Contemporary Japanese Politics. 4 volumes. (Editor) (2013)
  • References

    Jeff Kingston Wikipedia


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