About Louise Young
Born 1960. Louise Young is an American writer, historian and japanologist.
Louise Young is an author, historian of modern Japan, and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
She has acted as a visiting researcher to Tokyo University, Waseda University, and Kyoto University.
Books Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (1998) (won the John K. Fairbank Prize and the Hiromi Arisawa prize) Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan (2013)
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Historian of modern Japan
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Louise Young was born in 1960.
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Louise Young is a writer, historian and japanologist.
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