David R Ambaras

Paul Kreitman. Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty.

Ambaras, D. R. (2025, March 31). The American Historical Review.

Dōwa Policy and Japanese Politics by Ian Neary (review)

The Journal of Japanese Studies 50, No. 2. https://muse-jhu-edu.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/article/933803

Scholarly and Public Responses to “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War”: The Current State of the Problem, A Report by Concerned Scholars

Stanley, A., Ambaras, D., Shepherd, H., Chatani, S., & Schieder, C. S. (2023, November 1). Japan Focus, Vol. 21.

Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-mapping Modern East Asian History

(2021, November 10). http://scalar.chass.ncsu.edu/bodies-and-structures-2

Doing Violence to Buraku History: J. Mark Ramseyer's Dangerous Inventions

Amos, T., Ehlers, M., McKnight, A., Ambaras, D., & Neary, I. (2021, May 1). Japan Focus, Vol. 19.

Imagining Reconciliations in East Asia

Ambaras, D. R. (2021, January 1). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 81, pp. 275–288.

In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire by Eiichiro Azuma

Ambaras, D. R. (2021, January 1). Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 47, pp. 224–228.

“Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War”: The Case for Retraction on Grounds of Academic Misconduct

Stanley, A., Shepherd, H., Chatani, S., Ambaras, D., & Schieder, C. S. (2021, March 1). Japan Focus, Vol. 19.

Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan. By Max M. Ward (Durham, Duke University Press, 2019) 312 pp. $26.95

Ambaras, D. R. (2019, November 1). The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 50, pp. 480–481.

Bodies and Structures 1.0: Deep-mapping Modern East Asian History

https://scalar.chass.ncsu.edu/bodies-and-structures

Border Controls, Migrant Networks, and People out of Place Between Japan and China

In Ambaras, David and Kate McDonald, eds. Bodies and Structures 1.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History. 2019. https://scalar.chass.ncsu.edu/bodies-and-structures. https://bodiesandstructures.org/bodies-and-structures-2/border-controls-landing-page

Building a Multivocal Spatial History: Scalar and the Bodies and Structures Project (Parts 1-3)

PLATFORM__ A Digital Forum for Conversations about Buildings, Spaces, and Landscapes. https://www.platformspace.net/home/building-a-multivocal-spatial-history-scalar-and-the-bodies-and-structures-project-part-1

Placing the Poor in Japan’s Long Nineteenth Century

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 30.

What We're Doing: Overview Essay for Bodies and Structures

Ambaras, D. R., & McDonald, K. (2019, January 18). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Christopher P. Hanscom and Dennis C. Washburn, eds. The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire

Ambaras, D. R. (2018, November 26). Japan Forum, Vol. 31, pp. 132–134.

Japan's Imperial Underworlds

Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire

In Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/east-asian-history/japans-imperial-underworlds-intimate-encounters-borders-empire?format=HB#mqE3ckz4xLcBIUva.97

Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945

[Review of ]. Journal of Military History, 80(4), 1263–1264.

Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945 by Samuel Hideo Yamashita

Journal of Military History 80, No. 4.

Jordan Sand. Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects.

Ambaras, D. R. (2014, December 1). The American Historical Review, Vol. 119, pp. 1676–1677.

Dans le piège du fourmilion: Japonaises et Fujianais aux marges de l’Empire et de la nation

Vingtième Siècle: Revue d’Histoire, Vol. 120, pp. 125–137.

Alisa Freedman . Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2011. Pp. xiii, 333. Cloth $65.00, paper $22.95.

Ambaras, D. R. (2011, December 1). The American Historical Review, Vol. 116, pp. 1462–1463.

Ruffians, Yakuza, nationalists: the violent politics of modern Japan, 1860–1960

[Review of Ruffians, Yakuza, nationalists: the violent politics of modern Japan, 1860–1960, by E. M. Siniawer]. Global Crime, 11(1), 71–73.

Topographies of Distress: Tokyo, c. 1930

In Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City.

Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan. By Rachel DiNitto. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. x, 285 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

[Review of Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan, by R. DiNitto]. The Journal of Asian Studies, 69(3), 902–904.

Uchida hyakken: A critique of modernity and militarism in prewar Japan.

[Review of ]. Journal of Asian Studies, 69(3), 902–904.

Under an Imperial Sun: Japanese Colonial Literature of Taiwan and the South. By Faye Yuan Kleeman. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. viii, 317 pp. $49.00 (cloth).

Ambaras, D. R. (2008, February 1). The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 67, pp. 323–325.

Bad youth: Juvenile delinquency and the politics of everyday life in modern Japan

Berkeley: University of California Press.

Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890 (review)

Ambaras, D. R. (2006, March 1). Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 61, pp. 115–117.

House and home in modern Japan: Architecture, domestic space, and bourgeois culture, 1880-1920

[Review of ]. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 66(1), 255–259.

Bad YouthJuvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan

Ambaras, D. (2005, December 9).

Juvenile Delinquency and the National Defense State: Policing Young Workers in Wartime Japan, 1937–1945

Ambaras, D. R. (2004, February 1). The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 63, pp. 31–60.

The new Japanese woman: Modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan

Monumenta Nipponica, 59(1), 129–131.

The human tradition in modern Japan

[Review of ]. Journal of Japanese Studies, 29(1), 103–106.

The Pursuit of Power in Modern Japan, 1825-1995. By Chushichi Tsuzuki (New York, Oxford University Press, 2000) 568pp. $105.00

Ambaras, D. R. (2002, January 1). The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 32, p. 513.

Becoming apart: National power and local politics in Toyama, 1868-1945

[Review of ]. Social History, 27(3), 404.

Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

Ambaras, D. R., & Uno, K. S. (2000, January 1). Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 55, pp. 293–296.

Passages to modernity: Motherhood, childhood, and social reform in early twentieth-century Japan

[Review of ]. Monumenta Nipponica, 55(2), 293–296.

Mirror of modernity: Invented traditions of modern Japan, ed. by Stephen Vlastos

Social Knowledge, Cultural Capital, and the New Middle Class in Japan, 1895-1912

Ambaras, D. R. (1998, January 1). Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 24, p. 1.