Alan Tansman is an American

Japanologist , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, History of Japan, history, ...

. He is a professor of Japanese studies at the

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Biography

Tansman received his B.A. from

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

in East Asian Studies, M.S.J. from the

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, M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from

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in Japanese literature. He was the Chair of Berkeley's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Tansman is considered an expert in his field of Japanese literature and culture, and has written extensively about

Japanese fascism Fascist movements gained popularity in many countries in Asia during the 1920s. East Asia China Kuomintang The Kuomintang, a Chinese nationalist political party, had an alleged history of fascism under Chiang Kai-shek's leadership. The Blue ...

. Tansman was a former co-chair of the editorial board of ''

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'', an interdisciplinary journal in the

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published quarterly by the

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. He was also a former director of Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities. In 2019, he was suspended by Berkeley for a two-year term after being accused of sexual harassment by a former student.

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