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This wasn’t the end of a diplomatic life for Owada—who became Crown Princess of Japan in 1993 after marrying Crown Prince Naruhito—and it wasn’t the beginning...
Amid rumors and pressure from the Japanese media, Owada left Japan in 1988 for a two-year, Foreign Minsitry-sponsored study at Oxford. But in 1993, the Imperial Household announced the engagement, and that June Owada became Crown Princess of Japan, only the second commoner to ever marry into the royal family...
...It’s a real coup for Harvard,” said Susan J. Pharr, a professor of Japanese politics. Howell will be joining History Professor Andrew D. Gordon ’74 and Assistant Professor of History Ian J. Miller, who are also Japan historians. He will be replacing Professor Harold Bolitho, a former professor of Japanese History who focused on early modern Japan...
Howell is “one of the finest archival historians in the study of Japan and East Asia”, said Ian J. Miller, an assistant professor of history. Howell views Japan from the margins looking in, instead of the traditional view of the political city looking out, said Helen Hardacre, a professor of Japanese religions and society...
...really nice guy who students will gravitate towards in a big way,” Hardacre said. At Harvard, Howell will teach a course for undergraduates focusing on Japan during the Tokugawa Period. He will also co-teach a General Education course that will likely be called Societies of the World 13: “Japan: Tradition and Transformation,” said Gordon, who will teach the course with Howell. Howell will give the lectures for the first-half of the course about early modern Japan...