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Field Specialties
Religious and intellectual history of Japan; Tokugawa and Meiji periods.

Biography

Jim Ketelaar's specializations include religious and intellectual history of Japan, especially during the Tokugawa and Meiji periods.

Prof. Ketelaar is a governing board member for the undergraduate year-abroad program in Kyoto at the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies (KCJS); and also serves on the Executive Committee of the Governing Board for the Inter-University Center Research Institute in Yokohama.

Publications

Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and its Persecution (Princeton: 1989) winner of the Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Award.

He is currently finishing a book on the importance of the barbarian and the frontier in the construction of Japanese national identity and nationalhistory tentatively titled Ezo: A History of Japan's Eastern Frontier (Princeton). He is beginning a book project on the roles and meanings of love and eros in Japanese historical imaginations which will look at issuesranging from the relationship of Izanami and Izanagi to Shunga to the marriage of Emperors.

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James E. Ketelaar

Professor of Japanese History of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D. University of Chicago 1987