Books
History without Chronology. Lever Press, 2019.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11418981
New Times in Modern Japan. Princeton University Press, 2004.
Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History. University of California Press, 1993.
Awarded John King Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and named Outstanding Academic book by Choice.
In Korean as Ilbon dong-yanghak ui gujo. Translated by Yeongjae Bak and Dongju Ham. Munhak gwa jiseongsa, 2004.
Articles
“Asia: A Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness?” boundary2 46.3 (August 2019): 23-45.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-7614123
“Histoire mystique: temps, alterite, etrangete.” (Mystic History: Time, Otherness, Spectres). In Michel de Certeau. Le voyage de l’œuvre. Edited by Luce Giard. Centre Sevres. 2017.
“Ido–1884 nen no taiheiyo shuhen ni okeru samazama na dekigoto.” (Miscellaneous Happenings in and around the Pacific in 1884). In Kindai nihon to ajia: chiseiteki apurochi kara. Edited by Mitani Hiroshi and Hirose Midori. Bensei shuppan, 2016
“History without Chronology,” Public Culture 28.1 (January 2016): 161-86.
“Dongya: shijian yu lishi de jieding” (Time and the Delimitations of History in East Asia). Minzu rentong yu lishi yishi: shenshi jinxiandai Riben yu Zhongguo de lishixue yu xiandaixing (History, identity and the future in modern East Asia: Interrogating history and modernity in Japan and China), ed. Fudan University Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju (or China Books), 2013.
“Pasts in a Digital Age,” Writing History in a Digital Age, edited by Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki, University of Michigan Press, 2013.
“Unification of Time and the Fragmentation of Pasts in Meiji Japan,” Breaking up Time: Negotiating the Borders between Present, Past and Future, edited by Berber Bevernage and Chris Lorenz, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2013.
Axel Schneider and Stefan Tanaka, “The Transformation of History in China and Japan,” Oxford History of History Writing, 1800-1945, volume 4, edited by Stuart MacIntyre, Juan Maiguascha, and Attila Pok. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Digital Media in History: Remediating Data and Narratives,” Perspectives in History, May 2009.
“Time and the Paradox of the Orient,” Toajia bunka kosho kenkyu, 4 (bessatsu) (3.2009):165-77.
“New Media and Historical Narrative: 1884 Japan,” Performance Research, 11.4(2006): 95-104.
“Els Orients i l’Orient,” Revista d’etnologia de Catalunya, 29 (Desembre 2006): 88-93.
“Objectivism and the Eradication of Critique in Japanese History,” in H. D. Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi, eds. Learning Places: Area Studies, Colonial, Cultural, and Ethnic Studies, and Received Disciplines. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
“Nature—the Naturalization of Experience as National,” in Michele Marra, ed. Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002.
“Alternative National Histories in Japan: Yamaji Aizan and Academic Historiography,” in Eckhardt Fuchs and Benedikt Stuchtey, eds., Across Cultural Borders: Historiography in Global Perspective. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
“Discoveries of the Horyuji.” In Kai-wing Chow, Kevin M. Doak, and Poshek Fu, eds. Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
“Miidasareta mono: nihon to seiy\={o} no kako to shite no nihon bijutsu.” (Discoveries: Japanese Art History as the Past of Japan and the West) In Tokyo kokuritsu bunkazai kenkyujo, ed. Kataru genzai, katarareru kako: nihon no bijutsushigaku hyakunen. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1999.
“Childhood: the Naturalization of Development into a Japanese Space,” in Sally Humphreys, ed. Cultures of Scholarship. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
“Competitive Exchanges,” in J. Thomas Rimer, ed. A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters, 1868-1926 (187-89). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
“Sekaishi no naka no nichi-ro~ kankei,” Nakamura Yoshikazu and Tomasu Raima, eds. Roshia bunka to nihon: Meiji-Taishoki no bunka koryu (11-15). Tokyo: Sairyusha, 1995.
“History–Consuming Pasts,” Journal of Narrative and Life History, 4.4(1994): 257-75.
“Imaging History: Inscribing Belief in the Nation,” Journal of Asian Studies, 53(February, 1994): 24-44.
“Bunka to shik\={o},” (Culture and Taste) in Akuto Hiroshi, ed. Shoku bunka no kokusai hikaku (226-45). Tokyo: Nihon keizai shimbunsha, 1992.
“The Toledo Incident: The Deportation of the Nikkei from an Oregon Mill Town,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, LXIX (July 1978): 116-126.