Bettina Gramlich-Oka
Bettina Gramlich-Oka is professor of Japanese history on the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University. Among her publications are Thinking Like a Man: Tadano Makuzu (1763–1825) (Leiden: Brill, 2006) and the volume Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan (Leiden: Brill, 2010), coedited with Gregory Smits. In recent years her research has centered on the exploration of networks of the Rai family from Hiroshima during the Tokugawa period. Her work on the online Japan Biographical Database (jbdb.jp) is part of this endeavor, as is her coedited volume with Anne Walthall, Miyazaki Fumiko, and Sugano Noriko, Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Gramlich-Oka joined MN in the fall of 2014, later becoming chief editor.