Steve Rabson (srabson)

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Areas of Expertise: Japanese language, history, society and culture
Combs Hall Room 102
srabson@umw.edu
540-419-2071


Academic Degrees

Harvard University, Ph.D. in East Asian languages, 1979 Sophia University (Tokyo), Masters in Japanese literature, 1973 University of Michigan, B.A. in English literature, 1965

Taught Japanese language and literature at Brown University for thirty years, Publishes books and articles about Japan and translations of Japanese literature:
Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1988, reprinted 1996
Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry, Center for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Michigan, 1998
Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa, University of Hawaii Press, 2000
The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within, University of Hawaii Press, 2012
Training and Deployment of Ameeica's Nuclear Cold Warriors in Asia: Keepers of Armageddon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022
Articles accessed at Japanfocus.org