Faculty and Researchers
Hiromu Nagahara
Associated Faculty, MIT-Japan Program
Mitsui Career Development Professor in Contemporary Technology
Associate Professor of History
Hiromu Nagahara is a historian of modern Japan and the author of Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents (Harvard University Press, 2017). His next book, The Emperor’s English: Language and Identity Among the Rulers of Imperial Japan, explores the history of anglophones and anglophiles among modern Japanese elites. He is also the curator of the MIT Libraries digital exhibit, “From Samurai into Engineers: Eiichirō Honma and MIT’s First Japanese Students,” which marks the 150th anniversary of the graduation of MIT’s first Japanese student, Eiichirō Honma (SB 1874), and highlights the experiences of Honma and other Japanese students at MIT who followed in his footsteps.
Email
nagahara@mit.edu
