Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2002
M.A., Kyushu University, 1989
B.A., Kyushu University, 1987

Archer 200M
(409) 880-8523
ysato@my.lamar.edu

Yasuko Sato specializes in the history of premodern and modern East Asia. The history of Asia, samurai and ninja, Japanese visual culture, the Pacific theater in World War II, the Cold War in East Asia, and the nuclear age are just some of her many teaching interests. Her research examines early modern and modern Japanese thought in global contexts, with primary attention to the rediscovery and revival of classical antiquity in the modern world. Her Takamure Itsue, Japanese Antiquity, and Matricultural Paradigms that Address the Crisis of Modernity—A Woman from the Land of Fire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) is included in the book series, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. Dr. Sato is currently working on her second monograph, Confucius, Sorai, Franklin: The Art of Virtue and the Quest for the Republic.