POSTPONED Fung Public Seminar Series | Normalizing the Anomaly: The U.S. Empire and Historical Amnesia in Post-World War II Japan

Name: **POSTPONED** Fung Public Seminar Series | Normalizing the Anomaly: The U.S. Empire and Historical Amnesia in Post-World War II Japan
Start: 2026-03-19T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-19T13:15:00-04:00
Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

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Thu, Mar 19, 2026

12 PM – 1:15 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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**This talk is postponed; it will be rescheduled for a later date in April.**

For the past eighty years, the U.S. military has had a wide-ranging impact on Japanese culture and society. While academic scholarship on the topic tends to focus on specific times of war and/or military bases, this talk centers around a Japanese city without military bases and on periods when the United States was not officially involved in “hot” wars, exploring how the U.S. military in the city was accepted and normalized.

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Where

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

Speakers

Masako Hattori

Fung Global Fellow

PIIRS, Princeton University

Masako Hattori teaches U.S. political and diplomatic history at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include war and society, imperialism and nationalism, and social policy, as well as the U.S. in the Asia-Pacific. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the author of “The Age of Youth: American Society and the Two World Wars.” During her fellowship year, she will work on her second book project, which explores the relationship between imperialism, tourism and public memory in twentieth-century Japan.

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Fung Global Fellows Program, PIIRS | View More Events
Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies