East Asia Center Director Sabine Frühstück is Distinguished Professor and Koichi Takashima Chair in Japanese Cultural Studies in the Deptartment of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She is the chief editor of the University of California Press book series, New Interventions in Japanese Studies, and co-editor of the flagship journal, Journal of Japanese Studies. Frühstück studies Japan’s modern and contemporary culture and its relationship to the world. Read more about her scholarship here.