I am a historian of Modern Japan with broad interests in political and intellectual history, international history, and twentieth century East Asia. I completed my PhD in History at Kyoto University and after a career that has included postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Cambridge, I am presently a Lecturer and research fellow at the Australian National University. My forthcoming monograph, “A Memory of Empire: Kishi Nobusuke and the Making of Japanese Conservatism, 1918-1960” is an international history of modern Japanese conservatism told through the life and career of Kishi Nobusuke (1896-1987), principal champion of total war mobilization in the 1930s and 1940s, a suspected class-A war criminal, and one of the founder of the conservative hegemony which – in the form of the Liberal Democratic Party – has ruled Japan virtually unchallenged until the present. I am the co-editor with Barak Kushner of "In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire: Imperial Violence, State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern East Asia" (2020); and recently published a major research article "The War is Not Over: Kishi Nobusuke and the National Defense Brotherhood, 1944-45” in the Journal of Japanese Studies (Vol 49 no. 1, winter 2023).