Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 9:00am on Zoom on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92427629754 Christopher Craig will give a lecture on his recently published book, Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2021). He is currently Professor of Japanese Studies and the Head of the Research and Development Unit of the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies at Tohoku University (Japan). Sponsored by University of Georgia's Center for Asian Studies and Department of History and Tohoku University's Center for Integrated Japanese Studies, and the Hasekura League.