Steve Rabson (born May 7, 1943) is an American Japanologist, historian, translator, academic and professor emeritus of East Asian Studies at Brown University.
Career Rabson's research has focused on modern Japanese literature, especially works depicting war, its aftermath, and the experiences of women and minorities.Steve Rabson at Brown.edu; retrieved 2013-5-16. He is regarded as an expert on Okinawa, subject of several of his books, and has spoken of wartime rape there to the New York Times. He is also a Japan Focus associate. As a U.S. Army draftee he was stationed in Okinawa in 1967-68.
Selected works In an overview of writings by and about Rabson, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 11 works in 17 publications in 2 languages and 360+ library holdings.WorldCat Identities: Rabson, Steve; retrieved 2013-5-16.
The poetry of Kaneko Mitsuharu, 1979 Okinawa : Two Postwar Novellas (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989, reprinted 1996) Shimazaki Tōson on war, 1991 Yosano Akiko on War : To Give One's Life or Not : A Question of Which War, April 1991 Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry, (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998) Southern exposure: modern Japanese literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Michael Molasky (University of Hawaii Press, 2000) Edo senryū on waka and women, 2003 The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within (University of Hawaii Press, 2012) Kpop Crash Course: Beyond Gangnam Style, Dr Steve Rabson with Alexandra Swords Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Davinder Bhowmik (University of Hawaii Press, 2016) Training and Deployment of America's Nuclear Cold Warriors in Asia (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022)
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