Seiji Shirane is a historian of modern Japan. His teaching and research interests include Japan's empire, colonial Taiwan, and Japanese-Chinese relations. He received degrees from Yale University (BA, 2004) and Princeton University (PhD, 2014).

His first book is Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945 (Cornell University Press, 2022), available open access: http://bit.ly/3LWagWb.

He is currently working on a second book project on postwar Japan-Taiwan relations.

Dr. Shirane’s research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Ph.D., Princeton University

•  Modern Japan

•  War in Modern East Asia

•  Japanese-Chinese Relations

•  The Japanese Empire (MA)

•  The Pacific War (MA)

•  The Cold War in East Asia (MA)

International Relations, Empire, War, Migration, Race/Ethnicity

Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945 (Cornell University Press, 2022)