Steve Rabson

Steve Rabson (born May 7, 1943) is an American Japanologist, historian, translator, academic and professor emeritus of East Asian Studies at Brown University.^[1]

Career

Rabson's research has focused on modern Japanese literature, especially works depicting war, its aftermath, and the experiences of women and minorities.^[2] He is regarded as an expert on Okinawa, subject of several of his books, and has spoken of wartime rape there to the New York Times.^[3] He is also a Japan Focus associate. As a U.S. Army draftee he was stationed in Okinawa in 1967-68.^[1]

Selected works

In an overview of writings by and about Rabson, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 11 works in 17 publications in 2 languages and 360+ library holdings.^[4]

• The poetry of Kaneko Mitsuharu, 1979
• Okinawa : Two Postwar Novellas (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989, reprinted 1996)^[1]
• Shimazaki Tōson on war, 1991
• Yosano Akiko on War : To Give One's Life or Not : A Question of Which War, April 1991^[5]
• Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry, (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998)^[1]
• Southern exposure: modern Japanese literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Michael Molasky (University of Hawaii Press, 2000)^[1]
• Edo senryū on waka and women, 2003
• The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within (University of Hawaii Press, 2012)^[1]
• Kpop Crash Course: Beyond Gangnam Style, Dr Steve Rabson with Alexandra Swords^[6]
• Islands of Resistance: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Davinder Bhowmik (forthcoming from University of Hawaii Press, 2015)^[1]