SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH 2022
Featured Book
Christopher Gerteis discusses his book, "Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation," with Bill Mihalopoulos. Watch here on the SHCY Youtube Channel, or listen to the conversation as a podcast. Other episodes of the SHCY podcast are available at our podcast website, or you can subscribe on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.
UTokyo BiblioPlaza
University of Tokyo BiblioPlaza
18 October 2022
UTOKYO BIBLIOPLAZA 2022
日本の青少年の動員
「Mobilizing Japanese Youth」の中で、 クルストファー・ガータイスは日本の非政府団体 (左翼過激派および右翼活動家) が1960年代の後半までに選挙権を持つ成人人口の過半数を占めるにいたった、戦後最初の世代の政治的意識を型にはめようとする試みについて検証している。
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS’ CLUB OF JAPAN 2022
Book Break
Christopher Gerteis speaks about his new book Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation.
NEW BOOKS NETWORK 2022
English-Language Publishing in Asian Universities and Colleges
Christopher Gerteis, head of the International Publishing Initiative at Tokyo University. discusses the role of English language publication in universities and colleges in Asia and his work to assist faculty to publish their books with respected university publishers. Chris shares some of the unexpected hurdles in helping Japanese scholars to publish their work and how reviewers can be more open and understanding to different writing styles, formats, and tones.
WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIA INSTITUTE 2022
WEAI Author Q&A: Christopher Gerteis' 'Mobilizing Japanese Youth'
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation, published by Cornell University Press. The book's author, Christopher Gerteis, is Associate Professor of Contemporary Japanese History at SOAS University of London and Associate Professor and Academic Editor at the University of Tokyo's Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia.
WEAI Author Q&A
Columbia University Weatherhead East Asia Institute
10 May 2022
COMBINED ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS 2021
Mobilizing Japanese Youth
Christopher Gerteis discusses with Charlotte Anderson some of the story behind his new book with Cornell University Press.
中時新聞網
江飛宇
30 April 2019
國際 - 中時新聞網 2019
雅子皇后 或許重拾外交才能
東京大學亞洲高級研究所副教授克里斯多福·格爾特斯(Christopher Gerteis)。 「如果她擔任某種親善大使的宣傳角色，那將會非常有影響力，比如她可以...
THE GUARDIAN 2019
Japan's anglophile new emperor to open era of 'beautiful harmony'
“Masako is a highly intelligent, well-educated woman and, depending on her health, it’s entirely possible that she could do amazing things,” said Christopher Gerteis, associate professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at Tokyo University.
THE GUARDIAN 2019
End of an era in Japan as emperor prepares to abdicate
“The Heisei era is interesting because Japan learned what the emergence of a truly symbolic emperor looked like,” said Christopher Gerteis,...
THE NEW YORK TIMES 2018
How a World War II-Era Reparations Case Is Roiling Asia
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s top court on Tuesday stirred decades-old resentments that threaten to inflame relations with Japan, ordering a leading Japanese steel maker to compensate Korean men forced to work as slave laborers during World War II.
BBC NEWS 2015
How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2
It's 70 years since Japan surrendered and World War Two ended. But when war with Japan first broke out at the end of 1941 Britain had been woefully unprepared - not least because almost no-one in Britain could speak Japanese.
CNBC NEWS 2015
Who still owes what for the two World Wars?
Christopher Gerteis, Senior Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Japan, at the SOAS, University of London, told CNBC via email, that “the...
CNBC NEWS
By Alexandra Gibbs
CNBC News
18 March 2015
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 2013
Public History in Asia
Dr Mark R. Frost (Essex), Dr Christopher Gerteis (SOAS), Professor Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck)
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar
Institute of Historical Research
BBC RADIO 3
with Susannah Clapp
12 March 2012
BBC RADIO 2012
Going Dark, Disaster, Russell Banks, Bel Ami
Martin Dusinberre, Christopher Gerteis and Geoff Brumfiel discuss whether attitudes to natural disaster in Japan have changed. Russell Banks, a twice Pulitzer finalist, discusses his latest book, The Lost Memory of Skin and Ginette Vincendeau reveiws Bel Ami. Susannah Clapp reviews a new play Going Dark running at the Young Vic Theatre.
THE NEW YORK TIMES 2011
Japanese Companies Focus on Recovering From Quake
Christopher Gerteis, an expert in contemporary Japan at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies in London, said the region largely depended...
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Rick Gladstone
11 March 2011
ORIGINS
Current Events in Historical Perspective
April 2003
CURRENT EVENTS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2003
U.S. Credibility at Stake in Iraq
By Christopher Gerteis
Once again the United States has squandered its international credibility on a war that most of its closest allies do not believe was justified. And even if the war’s military phase is winding down, credibility diminishes even more with each day that American and British forces fail to unearth more than circumstantial evidence of the terrorist training camps and weapons of mass destruction claimed by the Bush Administration.