Author Daniel T. Roberts

Daniel T. Roberts

Daniel T. Roberts is a Government Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University, writing a comparative political economy monograph on identity, structural change, and the politics of opportunity in democracies. Among his cases are Japan and the US, countries he writes on more broadly as a Japanese-American citizen-scholar and occasional political theorist.

How Will You Live? Miyazaki’s Critique of Japanese Imperialism and Dialectic with Takahata in The Boy and the Heron

Daniel T. Roberts

November 2024

Feature Articles

Miyazaki Hayao’s recent and perhaps last work, Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka (The Boy and the Heron, 2023) announces itself as a dramatic departure from its opening fade-in on a blaring siren over war-time Tokyo. It...