M. G. Sheftall
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Mordecai George Sheftall is an American author and scholar living in Japan since 1987.
He is currently an associate professor of communication studies in the Faculty of Informatics at Shizuoka University, a branch campus of the Japanese national university system. Sheftall's writing and research activities focus on the modern evolution of Japanese national identity, with particular emphasis on the Japanese experience in World War Two and the lingering effects of that conflict on both collective and individual Japanese consciousness. Fluent and literate in Japanese, he is a frequent commentator on these issues in public symposia and Japanese broadcast and print news media. He has also been a featured commentator and technical advisor on the History Channel series "Dogfights." His most important work to date has been the critically acclaimed Penguin Group title Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze (2005), based on interviews with survivors of Japan's wartime kamikaze program.
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Sheftall, M.G. (2007) "Tattoi gisei: the aesthetics of "noble sacrifice" as discourse of re-masculinized national identity in postwar Japan." Keio University, Global Security Research Institute Working Paper No.14.
Sheftall, M.G. (2005) Blossoms In The Wind: Human Legacies Of The Kamikaze (New York: NAL Caliber)
"In The Face Of Samurai Spirit", Japan Times, August 15, 2005.
