William M Tsutsui

William M Tsutsui is the Edwin O Reischauer Distinguished Professor of Japanese Studies at Harvard University for the 2020-21 academic year. From 2014 to 2019, he served as president of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, USA, where he is professor emeritus of history. A specialist in the cultural, economic, and environmental history of modern Japan, he is the editor, with Michael Baskett, of The East Asian Olympiads, 1934-2008: Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China and the author of books including Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization and Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters.