JANIS MIMURA
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002)
Curriculum vitae
Email: janis.mimura@stonybrook.edu
Interests: Modern Japan, empire and imperialism, fascism, political-economy, technology
and society My research centers on modern Japan and its global interactions, particularly
in the areas of ideology, political-economy, technology, and culture. My first book,
Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State, examined the
role of Japanese technocrats in the industrialization of Japan-controlled Manchuria
and the creation of the Japanese war economy. My current book project is a transnational,
multi-archival study of Japan and its Axis alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist
Italy in World War II. I examine the geopolitical, economic, and cultural aspects
of this expansive alliance and consider the nature of global fascism from both macro
and micro perspectives.