Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published a Japanese translation of his 2012 book Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (Columbia University Press), entitled Sayonara amerika sayonara nippon: Sengo nihonjin wa donoyoni shite dokuji no popyura ongaku o seiritsu sasetaka (Byakuya Shobo, 2012).