Nathan Edwin Hopson

Associate Professor

Department of Foreign Languages

Abbreviated CV, etc.

E-mailNathan.Hopson@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 23 57
Visitor Address
Sydnesplassen 7

HF-bygget

5007 Bergen
Postal Address
Postboks 7805

5020 Bergen

Publications

Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Show author(s) (2021). Gender and Food in Contemporary East Asia. Lexington Books.

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Show author(s) (2021). Women, Waste, and War: Food, Gender, and Rationalization in Wartime Japanese Discourse. 24 pages.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Monographs

Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945-2011. Harvard University Asia Center (2017).

Refereed Articles

"We are How We Eat―The Rise and Fall of the Spork in Japanese School Lunches." Food & Foodways (under review)

“Ingrained Habits: The ‘Kitchen Cars’ and the Transformation of Postwar Japanese Diet and Identity.” Food, Culture & Society, November 2020.

『栄養指導車(キッチンカー)：アメリカ農産物と戦後日本の食生活変遷』「JunCture」11号 (2020年3月)

“Nutrition as National Defense: Japan’s Imperial Government Institute for Nutrition, 1920-1940.” Journal of Japanese Studies 45, no. 1 (2019): 1–29.

“‘Fake Food: Authentic Japanese Product’—On the Rise of Visuality in Middlebrow Japanese Culinary Culture.” Japan Forum 31, no. 2 (October 2018): 1–18.

“A Bad Peace?” – The 1937 Nagoya Pan-Pacific Peace Exhibition. Japanese Studies (September 2018)

“Henkyō, The Universal Japanese Frontier (An Interpretation).” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 4, no. 1 (2018): 85–109.

“Christopher Noss’ Tohoku and ‘Survey of Rural Fukushima’: Portraits of Tōhoku a Century Before March 11, 2011.” Asian Cultural Studies, no. 42 (Spring 2016): 139–51.

“Takahashi Tomio’s Phoenix: Recuperating Hiraizumi (1950-71).” Journal of Japanese Studies 40, no. 2. 353-377. (2014)

“Takahashi Tomio’s Henkyō: Eastern Easts and Western Wests.” Japan Review, no. 27 (2014): 141– 170.

Translated into Russian as: “Хенкё Такахаси Томио: восточные Востоки и западные Запады.” Translated by Rastyam Aliev. Journal of Frontier Studies 4, no. 12 (December 5, 2018).

“Systems of Irresponsibility and Japan’s Internal Colony.” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 52, No. 2, Dec 30, 2013.

“World′s First Telepathology Experiments Employing Ultra-high-speed Internet Satellite, Nicknamed ‘KIZUNA’.” Sawai, Takashi, et al. Journal of Pathology Informatics 4 (1): 24. (2013)

Journal Special Issues

「国民・国家・食」特集「JunCture」11号 (2020)

“Frontiers” (coedited with Ran Zwigenberg, Pennsylvania State University) Verge: Studies in Global Asias, no. 4.1 (Spring 2018).

Coauthored Articles

Hopson, Nathan, and Ran Zwigenberg. “Can the Frontier Write Back?” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 4, no. 1 (2018): vi–xv.

Book Chapters

“Women, Waste, and War: Food, Gender, and Rationalization in Wartime Japanese Discourse.” In Gender and Food in Contemporary East Asia, edited by Jooyeon Rhee, Chikako Nagayama, and Eric Li. Lexington Books, forthcoming.

“Nutritionists in Japan as a Professional Elite, 1914-1964.” In Professional Elites of Modern Japan. Bibliothèque de l’Institut des Hautes Études Japonaises du Collège de France. Paris: Collège de France, forthcoming.

Sasagawa, Norikatsu. “An Chunggŭn and the Political Philosophy of Immanuel Kant.” In Peace in the East: An Chunggŭn’s Vision for Asia in the Age of Japanese Imperialism, edited by Eugene Park and Tae-Jin Yi, translated by Nathan Hopson, 111–30. Lexington Books, 2017.

Yamamuro, Shin’ichi. “The Philosophy and Possibilities of An Chunggŭn’s Unfinished On Peace in the East.” In Peace in the East: An Chunggŭn’s Vision for Asia in the Age of Japanese Imperialism, edited by Eugene Park and Tae-Jin Yi, translated by Nathan Hopson, 177–99. Lexington Books, 2017.

『戦後思想としての東北—高橋富雄を中心に』浪川健治・河西英通共編「グローバル化のなかの日本史像 ―『長期の一九世紀』」岩田書院 (2013)

Book Reviews

『青森県史資料編近現代 7：青森論』「弘前大学國史研究」142号 (2017年3月).

Other

Maxson, Hillary著・Hopson, Nathan訳『家計簿と現代日本の家庭料理の成立』「JunCture」11号 (2020年3月)

Contributor: “The Recipes Project”