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Podcast summary
In his enthralling new novel, Buruma- an expert on modern Asia-uses the life of the starlet Yoshiko Yamaguchi as a lens through which to understand the contradictions and complexities of modern Japanese history.
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Participant(s) Bio
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. His previous books include God's Dust, Behind the Mask, The Missionary and the Libertine, Playing the Game, The Wages of Guilt, Anglomania, Bad Elements and Murder in Amsterdam, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the Best Current Interest Book. He was awarded the 2008 Shorenstein Journalism Award, which honored him for his distinguished body of work and the 2008 Erasmus Prize.
www.ianburuma.com
John Nathan is an author, translator, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, and cultural critic who has devoted a long and rich lifetime to removing the cloak of enigma that surrounds the Japanese. Born in New York City, he spent part of his childhood in Tucson, Arizona, and now lives with his family in Santa Barbara, California, where he is the Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California - Santa Barbara.
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