Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Tessa Morris-Suzuki (born 29 October 1951 in Caterham, Surrey, England), born Teresa Irene Jessica Morris, is an Australian historian of modern Japan and North Korea. She is a Professor Emerita in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University. She served as president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia from 2002-2003.

Early life

Born in Caterham, Surrey, England, she obtained her B.A. in Russian history from University of Bristol in 1972, and received a Ph.D. in the economic history of Japan from the University of Bath in 1980, completing a thesis on Japan's relations with Indonesia.

In 2012, she was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship.

In 2013, she was the winner of the Academic Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize.

In 2023, Morris-Suzuki was awarded the Distinguished Annual Lectureship by the Modern Japan History Association, presenting a lecture titled "Writing War: History in Occupied Japan and its Echoes for Today."

Publications

Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation and Democracy in Japan, Kegan Paul International, 1988. History of Japanese Economic Thought, Routledge, 1992. The Technological Transformation of Japan, Cambridge University Press, 1994. (also published in Chinese and Korean translations) Re-Inventing Japan: Time Space, Nation, M. E. Sharpe, 1998. (also published in Spanish translation) Demokurashii no Bôken (Ventures in Democracy, co-authored), Shûeisha, 2004. The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History, Verso, 2005. (also published in Japanese translation) Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. (also published in Japanese translation) 天皇とアメリカ (Tennô to Amerika, The Emperor and America, coauthored), Shûeisha, 2010 To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred Year Journey Through China and Korea, Rowman and Littlefield, 2010 Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era, Cambridge University Press, 2010 A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia, 2024