Political History | Diplomatic History | Modern Japan and Asia

Jeremy A. Yellen is a historian based in Hong Kong. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, and is currently an associate professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Jeremy’s research focuses on modern Japan’s international, diplomatic, and political history during the 1930s and 1940s. He also maintains a strong interest in the history of international relations and the historiography of modern war. His first book, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War, was published by Cornell University Press in April 2019, and he has received a multi-year grant to produce a biography of Japan’s infamous wartime general and prime minister, Tōjō Hideki.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Paperback edition of The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War released in February 2023.

PRESENTATION: “Tojo Hideki and the Politics of Storytelling in Wartime Japan.” Presentation at the European Association for Japanese Studies annual meeting, Ghent, Belgium, 17-20 August 2023.