Ricky Law

Ph.D. Student
rl@email.unc.edu

Major Field: Global history

Other Fields: Modern Europe, East Asia, Ancient Rome

Advisor: Christopher Browning and Miles Fletcher

Research Interests: My dissertation explores interwar German-Japanese relations by examining and comparing the two countries' mutual representations in civil society. Specifically, my project studies the attitudes of prewar Japan and Germany toward one another as reflected in newspapers, motion pictures, speeches and pamphlets, monographs, interest clubs, and textbooks. Through this investigation I hope to discover the extent and nature of bilateral understanding among non-expert Germans and Japanese, and to place the formation process of the Berlin-Tokyo Axis in a transcultural perspective.