Rotem Kowner
Author of The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War
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Rotem Kowner is the chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel.
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- Rotem Kowner is professor of Japanese history and culture at the Department of Asian Studies. His research interests include wartime behavior and attitudes in modern Japan, psychological aspects of intercultural encounters, race and racism in East Asia, Asian Jewish communities, learning methods of Japanese scripts, etc. His books include The Forgotten Campaign (2005), Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War (2006), The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War (editor, 2007), Globally Speaking (co-editor with Judith Rosenhouse, 2008), and Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (co-editor with Walter Demel, 2013). Professor Kowner has received numerous fellowships, prizes, and research grants. He is the co-founder of the Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel and the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies (IAJS), and serves on the editorial board of several academic journals. Currently he is the director of the liberal arts program at the University of Haifa and member of the university’s Senate, Board of Governors, and Executive Committee.
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Having read about 30-plus of the secondary works listed in this monograph, you could argue that I'm the last person that needs to read another book about this battle. Frankly, a big attraction was to see what an Israeli scholar would make of the event; Kowner admits that the opportunity to write this book made his day at the time. That said, if you come to the history of the Russo-Japanese War fresh, this work does give you a concise examination of the event, the factors that led to a show more smashing Japanese success, how the battle sealed the Japanese victory in the war, and was, for a time, regarded as a world-changing event; the first hard datum that the era of Western imperialism might be ebbing. Then World War I happened. Still, like any major battle, and possibly what defines a battle as being such, echoes of the fight still color historic interpretations and popular attitudes. My expectations are that if Kyiv pulls out victory over Moscow in the ongoing war, Tsushima (and the Russo-Japanese War in general) is going to be invoked as another exemplar of Russian failures when going on the imperial offensive. show less
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