Asako Masubuchi

Asako Masubuchi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Policy Studies at Doshisha University, Kyoto. Her research focuses on the questions of militarism, racism, and biopolitics in U.S.-occupied Okinawa. Her works include “Nursing the U.S. Occupation: Okinawan Public Health Nurses in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa,” in Pedro Lacobelli and Hiroko Matsuda, eds. Rethinking Postwar Okinawa: Beyond American Occupation (Lexington Books, 2017) and “Stamping Out the ‘Nation-Ruining Disease’: Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign in US-Occupied Okinawa” (Social History of Medicine, Vol. 34, Issue 4, November 2021).