Hiromu Nagahara
Mitsui Career Development Professor
History Section
Hiromu Nagahara is a historian of modern Japan, with a focus on the politics of art and culture since the nineteenth century. He is the author of Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents (Harvard University Press, 2017), which highlights the public controversies that engulfed the popular songs that were produced by Japan’s music industry since the late 1920s and their connections to Japan’s emergence as a mass-consumer, middle-class society.
Nagahara’s teaching interests include surveys of Japanese history from the earliest centuries through the modern era, as well as World War II in Asia.
