Academic Appointments
2013-present
Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT (MSU)
Chair, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Committee, MSU
2014-15
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Comparative Culture, Sophia University
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, MSU
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago
2018-present
2007-2013
2004-07
Education
2004
University of Michigan
Ph.D. in Anthropology (Ethnology)
1992
University of Michigan
MA in Communication Studies
Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies
1990
International Christian University
BA in Liberal Arts (Language Division, Communications Major)
Interests
Anthropology of Japan, Ethnography and Fieldwork, Human Rights, Feminist Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Social Movements, Gender and Sexuality, Nationalism, Nuclear Weaponry and Energy, Popular Culture and the Mass Media
Selected Publications
Selected Books
Tomomi Yamaguchi, Nogawa Motokazu, Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Emi Koyama (2016). Umi wo Wataru “Ianfu” Mondai: Rekishisen wo Tou [The “Comfort Woman” Issue Goes Overseas: Questioning the History Wars], Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.
Takaki Sumiko, Nakajima Satomi, Mitsui Mariko, Tomomi Yamaguchi and Yamada Mitsue, eds. (2015-16), Henshū Fukkokuban Kōdō-suru Onna-tachi no Kai Shiryō Shūsei [Collection of Documents, the Women’s Action Group], Vol. 1-8. Tokyo: Rikka Shuppan.
Tomomi Yamaguchi, Saito Masami and Ogiue Chiki (2012). Shakai Undō no Tomadoi: Feminizumu no ‘Ushinawareta Jidai’ to Kusanone Hoshu Undō [Social Movements at a Crossroads: Feminism's "lost years" vs. grassroots conservatism.] Tokyo: Keisō Shobō.
Selected Book Chapters
Tomomi Yamaguchi (2020) “The ‘History Wars’ and the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue: The Significance of Nippon Kaigi in the Revisionist Movement in Contemporary Japan.” In Pyong Gap Min, Thomas R. Chung, and Sejung Sage Yim eds. The Transnational Redress Movement for the Victims of Japanese Sexual Slavery. (Berlin: De Gruyter): 233-260.
Tomomi Yamaguchi (2019) (in Japanese) “Netto Uyoku to Feminizumu” (Internet Right-
Wingers and Feminism.” Netto Uyoku towa Nanika. (What is Internet Right-Wingers? Seikyusha: Tokyo 2019: 164-195.
Tomomi Yamaguchi, (2017) “The Mainstreaming of Feminism and the Politics of Backlash in Twenty-First Century Japan,” Julia Bullock, Ayako Kano and James Welker, eds. Rethinking Japanese Feminisms. University of Hawaii Press: 68-85.
Tomomi Yamaguchi. (2017) “Press Freedom Under Fire: The “Comfort Woman”, the Asahi Affair and Uemura Takashi” Jeff Kingston ed. Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan (London and New York: Routledge): 135-151.
Selected Journal Articles
Tomomi Yamaguchi (2020) “The ‘History Wars’ and the ‘Comfort Woman’ Issue: Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan and the U.S.” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 18, Issue 6, Number 3, March 15.
Tomomi Yamaguchi (2018) “Revisionism, Ultranationalism, Sexism: Relations Between the Far Right and the Establishment Over the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue”. Social Science Japan Journal. Vol. 21, Issue 2, 2018: 219-238.
Tomomi Yamaguchi. (2014) “’Gender Free’ Politics: Feminism and Backlash in Contemporary Japan” Feminist Studies, Issue 40.3, 2014: 541-572.