Brian Walsh

Brian Walsh has lived, worked, and studied in Japan for seventeen years. He received a master’s degree in Japan Studies from the University of Washington in 2003 and a Ph.D. in modern Japanese history from Princeton University in 2016. His principal areas of study are U.S.-Japanese relations in the 1940s and 1950s and the postwar development of a new Japanese national identity in the wake of World War II. He currently teaches Japanese history and international relations at Kwansei Gakuin University and lives in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.