Louise Young is a historian of modern Japan. My research and teaching interests include Japanese international relations, World War Two in Asia, comparative imperialism, Japanese urbanism and urban modernism between the wars, local history, and most recently, sociology and social policy. She is currently working on two book projects: Middle Class Myths in Modern Japan: A Cultural History of Social Power and Sociology and the "Social Problem" in Prewar Japan. Selected Publications: Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan. (University of California Press, 2013)
“Ideologies of Difference and the Turn to Atrocity: Japan’s War on China,” in A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945, eds., Roger Chickering, Stig Forster, and Berndt Greiner. London: Cambridge University Press, 2005.