Robert T. Tierney is Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His major publications include Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement (2015); Othello in Tokyo: Performing Race and Empire in Early Twentieth Century Japan, and Tropics of Savagery: the Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame (2010).