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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excited to announce that The Narrowing Sea has won the UHA Best Book Award! Thrilling that my work has connected with urban historians beyond East Asia. www.urbanhistory.org/Awards

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Urban History Association

Distinguished service and scholarship in urban history.

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I write a bit about JAT and empire in chapter 4 of my book!

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Sadly there is an annoying typo that couldn't be changed - on p402 somehow it says Second World War when it should say First! Argh

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Laura Hein went above and beyond the call of duty as moderator! Thank you, friends, for a rigorous roundtable!

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Morning, #AAS2026 attendees! We're back at the Vancouver Convention Center and ready to share more Asian & Asian American history with you. Want to save 40% on our books on display? Visit our AAS website for details: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Happening today at #AAS2026!

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Before you catch Hannah Shepherd, author of THE NARROWING SEA, in tonight's discussion, "Beyond and Beneath the Japanese Empire: New Books, Sites, and Scales", read her original content for #AAS2026 on the unfolding of her latest book: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a... @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social

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“A Reed’s Width of Water”: Urbanization and Migration between Japan and Korea

Author Hannah Shepherd on urban growth between Japan and Korea and how this project came to be.

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hear about the newest books on #JapaneseEmpire at #AAS2026 on March 14, 5:45-7:15pm, with Kristin Roebuck, @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social, Holly Stephens, and me, Laura Hein as mod @asianstudies.org @columbiaup.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social

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Sayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I just received author copies of my book on Chongryon (Chosen Soren). KumHee and I went through many emotional ups and downs during our research. I cannot describe what the weight of a physical copy means to me (FYI: It's physically heavier than I expected). The official release date is 31 March.

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Morning, #AHA26 attendees! We're back in the exhibit hall for your Saturday History book needs! Drop by and say hello and check out our latest books. Want to save 40% on our books on display? Visit our AHA website for details: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

40% off my new book! Looking forward to see it displayed irl!

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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Approximately five years ago, I weighed in on an academic controversy. Chaos ensued. At the height of the insanity, very angry people kept on sending me a US military document from 1944. I wrote an article about the infamous document, its context, and its afterlife. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

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Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Information in Asia’s War for Empire

Abstract. In 1944, a Japanese American intelligence officer stationed in Ledo, India, unwittingly composed a famous historical document: “Japanese Prisoner

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If you are interested in the book, please do ask your library to order a copy, and I also have a code for 30% off from UC Press if you are based in North America!

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I’m also excited to be talking about the book with Tessa Morris-Suzuki at an MJHA event in May, chaired by Joseph Seeley. There will be other events, but I’m on leave in Japan this yr and trying to make the most of the freedom to finish up 1 project and start work on another 8/

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I’ll be talking about the book at AAS in Vancouver in March 2026, on a panel chaired by Laura Hein, with other wonderful historians of East Asia, Sakura Christmas, Holly Stephens, and Kristin Roebuck, whose new books I can’t wait to read. 7/

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Right now I’m happy to look at the beautiful cover - and many thanks must go to Busan Museum of Art and the family of Yang Dalsuk for allowing me to use his incredible watercolor of wartime shantytowns - p’anjach’on - from 1950. 6/

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It’s a weird feeling looking at the sentences and paragraphs and chapters of something you know so well, transformed into an actual book - I’m not sure I’m used to it yet, and as a Virgo, I’m afraid to read too much in case I find typos… 5/

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

These projects really aren’t possible without support from institutions, peers, colleagues, friends and family, and I’m very aware of the privilege of being able to spend time working on this project as academia, and the humanities in particular, are so under attack. 4/

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

So, like any academic book, this has been a long time coming, and along the way there have been so many people who have helped make it possible. While I’ve tried to thank everyone in the acknowledgements, let me issue a blanket thank you here! 3/

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The seeds for the project were planted nearly 20 years ago now when I was assigned a position as an English teacher in Kurume, Fukuoka. The project grew through time at SOAS, Kyudai, Harvard, a blissful JRF at Trinity, and through the first four years of my current position. 2/

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My first book, The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region is officially out today (Dec 2). It’s an urban history of empire, an imperial history of urbanization, and contains the histories of many people who moved across the Tsushima Straits btw 1876-1953.

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Truly - like some kind of black hole every journalistic discussion of Japan & nature is sucked into

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This book is going to be so good! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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Sayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Just submitted my final page proofs. Forthcoming in March 2026. www.sup.org/books/asian-...

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Sayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Mark your calendar! mjha.org/event-6226580

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This is happening!!!! December 2: just in time for Christmas present season. I am still in the anxiety stage, not yet in the Saoirse Ronan as Jo March watching her book get published scene-stage, but I'm glad other people are excited already!

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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Thank you!!!! I need to start my own 自己PRキャンペーン

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