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Alan Tansman is Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Writings of Kôda Aya (Yale); The Culture of Japanese Fascism (Duke); The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism (California); and most recently, Japanese Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford). He has written about film, aesthetics, and pedagogy. He regularly teaches classes on responses to suffering across cultures, and also on empathy. He is now completing a book that combines these two areas of interest.