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M.G. Sheftall

M.G. Sheftall
M.G. Sheftall has lived in Japan since 1987. He has a PhD in international relations/modern Japanese history awarded by Waseda University in Tokyo, which is the most highly regarded private university in Japan. Since 2001, he has been a professor of modern Japanese cultural history and communication at the Faculty of Informatics of Shizuoka University, which is an institution in the Japanese national university system. Sheftall is married, with two adult sons, and makes his home in Hamamatsu, Japan.


Catastrophe Awaits:
Nagasaki Before the Bomb

M.G. Sheftall Chronicles Daily Life in Japan At the End of the Second World War
August 7, 2025  By M.G. Sheftall
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