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Gregory Smits's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Gregory James Smits is an American historian, academic, writer and Japanologist. He is a professor of Japanese history at Pennsylvania State University. Early life Smits was born in Columbia, Missouri. He earned a BA from the University of Florida in 1983. He was awarded a master's degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The University of Southern California granted his Ph.D.

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Gregory Smits's Published Works

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Shaking Up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints (2006) (35)
Folklore and earthquakes: Native American oral traditions from Cascadia compared with written traditions from Japan (2007) (23)
Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics (2000) (23)
Visions of Ryukyu : identity and ideology in early-modern thought and politics (1999) (19)
Japan, the U.S. and the Globalization of Children's Consumer Culture (2005) (17)
When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan (2014) (14)
Economic thought in early modern Japan (2010) (11)
Seismic Japan: The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earthquake (2013) (9)
Ambiguous Boundaries: Redefining Royal Authority in the Kingdom of Ryukyu (2000) (8)
Warding off Calamity in Japan: A Comparison of the 1855 Catfish Prints and the 1862 Measles Prints (2009) (5)
Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650 (2018) (4)
Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power . Edited by Ian Jared Miller, Julia Adeney Thomas, and Brett L. Walker. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. xiv, 322 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). (2015) (4)
Conduits of Power: What the Origins of Japan's Earthquake Catfish Reveal about Religious Geography (2012) (3)
The Intersection of Politics and Thought in Ryukyuan Confucianism: Sai On's Uses of Quan (1996) (3)
Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture (review) (2006) (2)
Introduction. The Autonomy Of Market Activity And The Emergence Of Keizai Thought (2010) (2)
Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture. By Eiko Ikegami (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv plus 460 pp.) (2006) (1)
Volcanic Hazards as Components of Complex Systems: The Case of Japan (2019) (1)
The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan by J. Charles Schencking (review) (2014) (1)
Guiding Horses With Rotten Reins: Economic Thought In The Eighteenth-Century Kingdom Of Ryukyu (2010) (1)
Visions of Ryukyu (1999) (1)
Rethinking Early Ryukyuan History (2019) (1)
The Ansei Edo Earthquake (2013) (1)
Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930 (review) (2008) (1)
A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600–1901 . By Watanabe Hiroshi. Translated by David Noble. Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2012. 543 pp. ¥2,858 (cloth). (2015) (1)
UNSPEAKABLE THINGS : SAI ON'S AMBIVALENT CRITIQUE OF LANGUAGE AND BUDDHISM (1997) (1)
Recent Trends in Scholarship on the History of Ryuk yu ’ s Relations with China and Japan (2006) (0)
Making a Good Impression: Cultural Drama in the Ryukyu-China Relationship (2013) (0)
Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa’s Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000 by Tze May Loo (review) (2016) (0)
Into the Twenty-First Century (2013) (0)
Making Destiny in the Kingdom of Ryukyu (2014) (0)
New Values, New Identities: Becoming Okinawan and Japanese in 19-Century Ryukyu (2014) (0)
Reviews of Books:The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 Brett L. Walker (2002) (0)
Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils, and Patrons--Japanese Intellectual Life in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Prosopographical Approach (review) (2007) (0)
New values, new identities : becoming Okinawan and Japanese in 19th-century Ryukyu/Okinawa prefecture (2013) (0)
Earthquakes in the Early Modern Era (2013) (0)
Earthquakes in historical context (2021) (0)
Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japaneseby Samuel Hideo Yamashita. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005. xi+330 pp. $43.80 (cloth); $26.00 (paper). (2007) (0)
The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia by Mamoru Akamine (review) (2017) (0)
The Conquest of Ainu Lands (Book) (2002) (0)
7 New Cultures, New Identities: Becoming Okinawan and Japanese in Nineteenth-Century Ryukyu (2015) (0)
The Ryukyu Kingdom/Empire (2013) (0)
Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America (review) (2006) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1995) (0)
Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in 17th-Century Japanese Diplomacy (review) (2004) (0)
Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo by Janet Borland (review) (2021) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1995) (0)
Sai On's Autobiography as Didactic Rhetoric (2006) (0)
Japan according to Earthquakes (2013) (0)
Symposium on Early Modern Japanese Values and Individuality : summary comments on day's papers and chair/discussant sessions (2013) (0)
JAPAN, THE U.S. AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF (2016) (0)
Why the Earth Shakes (2013) (0)
14th JISR-IIASA Workshop on Methodologies and Tools for Complex System Modeling and Integrated Policy Assessment (0)
The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori. By Mark Ravina. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. xvi, 265 pp. $30.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). (2006) (0)
Examining the Myth of Ryukyuan Pacifism (2020) (0)

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