John Sagers

John Sagers is Associate Professor of History at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.

He earned a BA in history from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990, a Master degree in Pacific International Affairs from the University of California at San Diego in 1994, and a Ph.D. in modern Japanese history from the University of Washington in 2001. He studied in Japan at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama 1992 -1993, as a Fulbright Fellow in Tokyo 1998-1999, as a Japan Foundation Fellow in 2008, and was a visiting scholar at Rikkyo University in 2010.

Publications include "Power, Legitimacy, and the Japanese Emperor" in the Association for Asian Studies' Education about Asia and entries on "Asian Developmental States," "Nissho Iwai Trading Company," and "Sony Corporation" in the Encyclopedia of Capitalism. His book, Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power: Reconciling Confucianism and Capitalism, 1830 - 1885 was published by Palgrave Macmillan Press.