Yale PhDs in Japanese History
Student | Year Received | Dissertation Title |
Kan'ichi Asakawa | 1902 | The Reform of 645: An Introduction to the Study of the Origin of Feudalism in Japan |
Eldon Griffin | 1937 | Clippers and Consuls: American Consular and Commercial Relations with the United States and Eastern Asia, 1845-1860 |
David Forsyth Anthony | 1951 | The Administration of Hokkaido Under Kuroda Kiyotaka, 1870-1882 |
Lillian Ota Dotson | 1951 | The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 |
Mikiso Hane | 1957 | English Liberalism and the Japanese Enlightenment 1868-1890 |
James Kensuke Irikura | 1958 | Trade and Diplomacy between the Phillipines and Japan, 1585-1623 |
Sadao Asada | 1963 | Japan and the United States, 1915-1925 |
Harold Bolitho | 1969 | The Fudai Daimyo in the Tokugawa Settlement |
William B Hauser | 1969 | Economic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan: The Osaka Cotton Trade |
Jeffrey P Mass | 1971 | The Early Development of the Kamakura Bakufu: A Study of the Shugo and Jito |
Gordon Mark Berger | 1972 | The Search for a New Political Order: Konoe Fumimaro, the Political Parties, and Japanese Politics during the Early Shōwa Era |
Richard Louis Staubitz | 1973 | The Establishment of the System of Local Self-Government (1888-1890) in Meiji Japan: Yamagata Aritomo and the Meaning of Jichi (Self Government) |
William Miles Fletcher, III | 1975 | Ideologies and Political and Economic Reform and Fascism in Prewar Japan: Ryu Shintaro, Royama Masamichi, and the Showa Research Association |
Peter Judd Arnesen | 1977 | Daimyo Ryokoku in Muromachi Period Japan. A Study of the Ouchi Domain |
James L McClain | 1979 | Kanazawa: A Castle Town in 17th Century Japan |
Sharon H. Nolte | 1979 | Democracy and Debate in Taisho Japan: Tanaka Odo, 1867-1932 |
Sheldon Marc Garon | 1981 | Parties, Bureaucrats and Labor Policy in Prewar Japan, 1918-1931 |
Suzanne Marie Gay | 1982 | The Muromachi Bakufu in Medieval Kyoto |
Masahiro Hosoya | 1982 | Selected Aspects of the Zaibatsu Dissolution in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952: The Thought and Behavior of Zaibatsu Leaders, Japanese Government Officials, and SCAP Officials |
Wanyao Zhou | 1991 | The Kominka Movement: Taiwan under Wartime Japan, 1937-1945 |
Frederick Richard Dickinson | 1993 | World War I and Japan: The Dissipation of Consensual Continentalism, 1914-1919 |
Christopher W.A. Szpilman | 1993 | The Politics of Cultural Conservatism: The National Foundation Society in the Struggle Against Foreign Ideas in Prewar Japan, 1918-1936 |
Futoshi Shibayama | 1994 | Coping with the Anglo-American World Order: Japanese Intellectuals and the Cultural Crises of 1913-1953 |
Genzo Yamamoto | 1999 | Defending Japanese Civilization and Civilizing Mission in Asia: The Resilience and Triumph of Illiberalism in the House of Peers, 1919-1934 |
Simon Suk Yeon Kim | 2005 | Korean Students in Imperial Japan: From Visionaries to Participants in Nation Building, 1910-1945 |
Lisa Yoshikawa | 2007 | Kuroita Katsumi and his State-Sanctioned Nation History, 1896-1937: Narrating Absolute Imperial Sovereignty and Japan's Civilizing Mission in Asia as History |
Frank Dhont | 2012 | Outlasting Colonialism: Socio-political Change in the Javanese Principalities under the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia During World War II |
Bo Tao | 2019 | Imperial Pacifism: Kagawa Toyohiko and Christianity in the Asia-Pacific War |
Joanna Linzer | 2021 | Iron Archipelago: Environment and Industry in Early Modern and Modern Japan |