Michael P. Cronin
Michael P. Cronin is an associate professor of Japanese studies at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is the author of Osaka Modern (Harvard East Asian, 2017), a study of Japan’s merchant capital as imagined in literature, cinema, and popular culture of the transwar period, from the 1920s to the 1950s. Born and raised in greater Boston, he lived in Western Japan for eight years.