Todd Joseph Miles Holden ( also known as T.J.M. Holden and Todd Holden ) is an American-born social scientist , essayist , philosopher , and novelist . He was the first tenured foreign professor at Tohoku University , one of Asia ’s elite universities , where he taught for 26 years . His scholarship has been multi - and trans-disciplinary , embracing globalization , media studies , cultural studies , semiotics , advertising , television , Japanese popular culture , sociology , cultural anthropology , political communication , gender , identity , and digital youth . Between 2000 and 2009 he was a contributor to the international webzine PopMatters , writing a regular column on Japanese popular culture called '' ReDotPop '' , and creating '' PM '' ’s first blog , '' Peripatetic Postcards '' . In 2011 he published a book by the same name , bearing the subtitle " the journey of life through 25 of the world 's cities " . Recent work has included literary treatments of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami , dystopia , philosophical detection , comedy and caper
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Todd Joseph Miles Holden