John E Van Sant

Biographic Data

ID1148858
NAMEJohn E Van Sant
GIVEN NAMESJohn E
FAMILY NAMEVan Sant
SIGNATUREVAN SANT J E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Red Arrow across the Pacific

    Open AccessJohn E Van SantARTICLEJournal of American History2026

  • Mori Arinori

    John E Van SantARTICLEJournal of American-East Asian…2024References: 3

    This article briefly examines the life of Mori Arinori, who in 1871 became Japan’s first resident diplomat in Washington, D.C., with the primary assignment of making preparations for the upcoming Iwakura Mission. Mori’s pedigree of being from a samurai family from Satsuma domain and his unusual background of having already lived in Britain and the United States led senior officials of the new Meiji Imperial government to name Mori to the all-impo…

  • Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless

    John E Van SantARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2023

    In examining records from the U.S. Census Bureau and from the Japanese Consulates General in the United States, Jin estimates that 50,000 Nisei Japanese (citizens born in the United States) departed the United States for Japan or the territories of the Japanese Empire in the first half of the twentieth century—approximately one-fourth of the Nisei Japanese in the United States during this era. The scholarly and popular historical works about the …

  • Consuming Japan

    John E Van SantARTICLEJournal of American History2018Cited by: 5

    By the early 1980s, Japan's gross national product surpassed that of the Soviet Union, and Japan's economy became the second-largest in the world, behind only the United States. Japanese cars, television sets, VCRs, and Walkmans became ubiquitous around the world, while the television miniseries Shogun (1980) and Japanese-made or Japanese-themed films, cartoons, and books permeated global popular culture. This rise of Japan as an industry (“Japan…

  • Historical Dictionary of United States-Japan Relations

    John E Van Sant, Peter Mauch et al.DATASETThe SHAFR Guide Online2017

    Part 1 Editor's Foreword Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Reader's Note Part 4 Acronyms and Abbreviations Part 5 Chronology Part 6 Map Part 7 Images Part 8 Introduction Part 9 THE DICTIONARY Part 10 Appendix A United States Presidents and Secretaries of State, 1789-2005 Part 11 Appendix B Japanese Prime Ministers Part 12 Bibliography Part 13 About the Authors

  • Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities

    John E Van SantARTICLEJournal of the History of…2013

    With four editors, eleven authors (from China, Japan, the United States, New Zealand, Europe, and Russia), eleven chapters, an annotated bibliography, and two appendices, Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities attempts and largely succeeds in covering a range of history, science, and ethical issues related to the human medical and biological warfare experiments of the notorious Unit 731 led by Dr. (and Lt. General in the Japanese Army) Ishii Shiro th…

  • Science for the Empire

    John E Van SantARTICLEJournal of the History of…2010

    From the aftermath of World War One, when Japan transformed into a nation of heavy and chemical industries, until its defeat at the end of World War Two, Hiromi Mizuno examines “science as a dynamic site where its definition and political power [were] continually contested” by technology bureaucrats (technocrats), Marxist intellectuals, and popular science writers (4). Much of the contested terrain in Science for the Empire pertains to the philos…

  • The Vaccinators

    John E Van SantARTICLEJournal of the History of…2007

    In an earlier, groundbreaking study, Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987), Professor Ann Jannetta referred to smallpox as “the most terrible minister of death.” In her new study, Professor Jannetta traces Edward Jenner's discovery of cowpox vaccination in rural England in 1798 to the primary role Japanese ranpō (Dutch, or Western methods) physicians played in institutionalizing medical kn…

  • Sakuma Shozan's Hegelian vision for Japan

    John E Van SantARTICLEAsian Philosophy2004

    By the mid‐19th century, an increasing number of Japan's political leaders and scholars realized that Japan had to adapt and incorporate some elements of Western‐style industrialization into their own political and economic order as the necessary means to remain independent of Western imperialism. The Opium War in China, and later the Euro‐American bombardments of the domain capitals in Choshu and Satsuma demonstrated that trying to defend the re…

  • Pacific Pioneers

    Gary Y Okihiro, John E Van SantARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 2

    The first Japanese to arrive in the United States long preceded the latenineteenthcentury migrations commonly held to be the origins of Japanese American history, notes John E. Van Sant in this slender book. Included among the pioneers who settled in the United States and Hawaii were castaway sailors, students, diplomats, and political exiles. Van Sant's “transnational approach” focuses on Japan's nineteenthcentury “worldview,” the relations amon…