Field of study: Japan

University of Maryland, B.A.s in Japanese and Art History, 2024. 

Japan and Korea: visual culture, history of art, imperial Japan, colonial Korea

University of Southern California, B.A. Political Science & Cognitive Science, 2025 

Japan and Korea: comparative politics; modern East Asian social and cultural history; development economics

Hitotsubashi University, B.A. in Law (International Relations), 2024 

Japan and East Asia: Multilateral Relations, Security and Foreign Policy, Japan-Southeast Asia Relations, Comparative Politics, Military strategy in Indo-Pacific region

Trinity College, B.A. History (Environmental History), Asian Studies Minor, 2026. 

Japan: environmental history; animal histories; human-environment interactions; disaster and visual culture; ecological relationships; environmental change and connection in...

Yale University, BA, Anthropology; East Asian Studies 

Japan: Modern Japan, cultural history, consumption, bodily aesthetic

Harvard College, AB, Government May 2027

China, Taiwan, and Japan: memory studies, historical memory, memorials, nationalism, WWII.

University of Pennsylvania, BA 2025

Korea, Japan, China: Modern and contemporary comics. Feedback loop between published media and sociocultural climate; commercial fiction as reflections of concurrent societal phenomena; navigation methods of the comics...

Research Interests: Semiotics, Nuclear Things, Toxicity, Waste, Disaster Studies, Environment, Energy, Robotics, Wildlife, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Applied Anthropology, East Asia (Japan), Indigenous Studies

Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910—1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009). Additionally, he has co-edited a number of volumes...

Paulina Kolata is an interdisciplinary scholar of religion in Japan, specifically Buddhism, with an interest in demographic transformations, materiality, religious economies, and ecologies of religious practice. Her other research interests include food...