Kristin Roebuck
Historian and author of the book 'Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War,' discussing archival research on race, sex, reproduction, and eugenics in Japan across the 1930s–1950s and explaining findings during the interview.
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Feb 10, 2026 • 59min
Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Kristin Roebuck, historian of race, eugenics, and gender in modern Japan. She traces contested ideas of mixed blood, reproductive control, and adoption from empire to Cold War. Short, vivid stories cover prostitution research, shifting eugenic rhetoric, Sawada Miki’s role in collecting mixed‑race children, and US Cold War adoption policies.
Feb 12, 2026 • 59min
Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Kristin Roebuck, historian of sex, reproduction, race, and empire in modern Japan, discusses her book on how Japan’s attitudes toward mixed‑race people and eugenics shifted from imperial openness to Cold War racial nationalism. She covers research origins, translation challenges for minzoku, eugenic policy as racial engineering, adoption and orphan removal, and Cold War population management.
Feb 10, 2026 • 59min
Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Kristin Roebuck, historian and author of Japan Reborn, studies race, gender, reproduction and empire in modern Japan. She traces Japan’s shift from imperial acceptance of mixed-race bodies to Cold War racial nationalism. Topics include eugenics laws, postwar adoption and bureaucratic power, occupation politics, and how debates over mixed blood shaped nationalist projects.
