Gordon Berger

  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • USC Dornsife College
Office: (213) 740-1678

Expertise Summary

Expert on Japanese politics and East Asian societies and culture

Expertise

  • U.S.-Japan relations
  • Japanese politics
  • business/ government relations in Japan
  • post-war Japan
  • East Asia/East Asian societies and cultures

Languages

  • Japanese

Additional Information

  • Author of The Imperial Rule Assistance Association (in Japanese) (2001) and Parties out of Power in Japan, 1931-41 (1977)
  • Co-author of Can Humankind Prevent War? (in Japanese) (1997)
  • Translator and editor of Kenkenroku: A Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-95 by Mutsu Munemitsu (1982)
  • Practicing psychoanalyst interested in how psychoanalytic ideas may be deployed in historical research