Writing

Documentation

Command Line Teaching is a custom tool I wrote in Python to upload course materials to a learning management system. Documentation written in reStructuredText following the Diátaxis framework and created with Sphinx.
Pykari is a custom static site generator that I wrote in Python. Documentation written in Markdown and created with Pykari.

LaTeX Document Structure in Sphinx Projects provides details on the structure of LaTeX documents generated by Sphinx from reStructuredText files.
Plain text presentation slides is an overview of how I use Pandoc and Make to prepare PDF slide shows from Markdown files.
Teaching in Plain Text discusses how to use open-source software to write plain text teaching materials and distribute them in a variety of formats.
Some Notes on Configuring MeCab provides details about how to install and configure MeCab, a Japanese text tokenizer.
How to Structure reStructuredText for Quick Updates explains how to use text substitutions to facilitate periodic updates to projects, with a syllabus as an example.
A Single Source Syllabus is a guide to using Make to generate HTML and PDF teaching materials from a single Markdown source file.

In my chapter in The Japanese Empire and Latin America (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023), I examine how trade and immigration policies shaped the expansion of Japanese shipping networks in Latin America between 1905 and 1941.
My Ph.D. dissertation (Princeton University, 2019) examines Japan’s emergence as a global shipping power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.