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Field Specialties
Eighteenth-Century Tokugawa Thought; Intellectual History of Modern Japanese Politics.

Biography

Tetsuo Najita's special interest is in the intellectual history of Early Modern and Modern Japan; and the intellectual history of politics (seiji shisoshi).

Publications

Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan. The Kaitokudo Merchant Academy of Osaka (1987 and 1997) -- winner of Yamagata Banto Prize, 1990 and translated into Japanese by Iwanami Press (1992).

"Traditional Cooperatives in Modern Japan: Rethinking Alternativesto Cosmopolitanism and Nativism," Development and Change (27.2:1996).

Forthcoming include:

Tokugawa Political Writings -- Ogyu Sorai (Cambridge University Press,1988).

"Ambiguous Encounters: Ogata Koan and International Studies in LateTokugawa Osaka," in a volume from Cornell University Press (1988).

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Tetsuo Najita

Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D. Harvard University 1965