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Books

2011: Understanding Contemporary Japan, International Symposium in Indonesia 2010, Co-edited by Yamada Shōji, International Research Center for Japanese Studies.; Girei to Kenryoku: Tennō no Meiji Ishin (Ritual and Authority: The Emperor’sMeiji Restoration), Heibon-sha
2010: A New history of Shinto (co-authored with Mark Teeuwen), Wiley-Blackwell
2007: Yasukuni, the war dead and the struggle for Japan's past (editor), Hurst/Columbia University Press
2004: Death in Japan (Mortality special issue; guest editor) 9, 1
2002: Inoue Nobutaka et al., Shintō: a short history, (co-translated and adapted), Routledge Curzon
2000: Shintō in history: ways of the kami, (co-edited with Mark Teeuwen), Hawaii University Press
1998: Japanese in three months, (author) Dorling Kindersley, (Reprint of Japanese simplified, Hugo's Language books, 1987)
1996: Japan and Christianity: impacts and responses, (co-edited with Mark Williams) Macmillan

Articles

2013: “Kindaika no naka de hen'yō suru Ise Jingū to Izumo Taisha” (The metamorphosis of Ise and Izumo in modernizing Japan), Rekishi dokuhon, 6
2012: “Kindai gaikōtaisei no sōshutsu to tennō” (The making of modern Japanese diplomacy and the emperor)”, AranoYasunori et al eds., Kindaikasuru Nihon: Nihon no taigaikankei 7, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan.; “The Imperial Oath of April 1868: ritual, power and politics in Restoration Japan”, Reprinted in Ben-Ami Shillony ed., Critical readings on the emperors of Japan, 3, Brill; “Shirarezaru gyōseki, Kindai Nihon no gaikoshi ni hatashita Meiji Tennō no yakuwari” (The Meiji emperor and modern Japanese diplomacy), Rekishi dokuhon, 12; “Fine words indeed: Yasukuni and the narrative fetishism of war”, Inken Prohl and John Nelson eds., Handbook of contemporary Japanese religions, Brill.; “Hiyoshi taisha no kamigami” (The kami of Hiyoshi taisha), Shiga Sanno-kai Kaihōshi, 1, p.3; “Shinto”, Helmut Anheier, Mark Jurgensmeyer ed., Encyclopedia of Global Studies, 4, Sage.
2011: “Voices of rage: six paths to the problem of Yasukuni”, Roy Starrs ed., Politics and religion in modern Japan : red sun, white lotus, New York: Palgrave Macmillan; “Mourning and violence in the Land of Peace: Reflections on Yasukuni,” John Breen and Yamada Shōji eds., Understanding Contemporary Japan, International Symposium in Indonesia 2010, International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
2010: “Resurrecting the sacred land of Japan: the state of Shinto in the 21st century’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 37-2.; “Resurrecting the sacred land of Japan: developments in 21st century Shinto”, Rekishi hyōron, 722; “‘Conventional wisdom’ and the politics of Shinto in postwar Japan”, Politics and religion, 4,1; “On Kono shrine” Proceedings of the International Ama no hashidate symposium, Kyoto Prefecture, Miyazu City, Ine Town, Yosano Town; “The start of the early modern at Hie shrine” Happyō ronbunshū, Shintō kokusai gakkai; “Resurrecting the sacred land of Japan: the state of Shinto in the 21st century”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 37, 2; “Il tempio Yasukuni, rituale e memoria”, Cultor (anno II, 5 marzo); “Popes, bishops and war criminals: reflections on Catholics and Yasukuni in post war Japan”, The Asia Pacific Journal, 9-3-10
2009: “Kindai Sannō matsuri no genten: Kanpei taisha hie jinja shi no hitokoma”, (The origins of the modern Sannō festival: on the history of the Great State Shrine Hie ), Jinbun Gakuhō, 98; “Honchō no yukue” Nichibunken, 43; “Shinto is the great way of the universe : Historical notes on Shinto-Christian negotiations”, Japan Mission Journal, 63, 4; “Shimo Goryō jinja : omatsuri to ujiko” (Shimo goryo shrine: its festivals and parishioners) Saitama ken Jinjachōhō 188, 2; ‘ “The danger is ever present”: Catholic critiques of Yasukuni shrine in post war Japan,’Japan Mission Journal, 63, 2; “Le traumatisme du Pacifique : le sanctuaire du Yasukuni et sa vision de la guerre”, Cipango, 15; “Shinto” in Peter B Clarke and Peter Beyer eds., The World's Religions : continuities and transformations, Routledge : London
2008: “Taiheiyō no torauma : Yasukuni jinja ni yoru sensō gatari no feteishizumu”, 21st century of Excellence program, Articles in Translation; “Haha naru mono” (Mothers), Jinja Shinpō, 2923
2007: “Introduction: a Yasukuni genealogy” in Breen ed., Yasukuni, the war dead and the struggle for Japan's past; “Yasukuni and the loss of historical memory” in Breen ed., Yasukuni, the war dead and the struggle for Japan's past; “Shinto” in Encyclopaedia of missions and missionaries. New York: Routledge.; “Inside Tokugawa religion: stars, planets and the calendar-as-method”, Culture and cosmos, 10, 1-2; “Meiji tennō o yomu” (Reading the Meiji emperor), in Rachio 3 : Nihon no kindai towa nani ka; “Igirisu no ōji bunka to Hoshi no Ōji-sama”(British princely culture and Le petit prince in Japan), Tosho, 694; “Kinsei no omokage”(Shadows of the early modern), Jinja shinpō; “Irei to dōtoku”(Mourning and morality), Dai ikkai Shintō kokusai gakkai riji senkō kenkyū ronbun happyōkai : yōshi shū; “Kindai gendai Shintō shi no jidai kubun”(Periodisation in modern and contemporary Shinto history), Shinto kokusai gakkai ed., Shintō shi kenshū no saikō : jidai kubun no minaoshi to kokusaiteki apurōchi, Kokusai bunka kōbō; Taniguchi Shōko, “Suicide is a social not an individual problem: Japan in international perspective”, (Introduced and translated by John Breen), Japan Focus, 909; “Kingo, momomaru no koto” (On Kingo and Momomaru), Jinja Shinpō; “Shintō shi o kaku, to iu chōsen”(The challenge of writing a history of Shintō), Jinja Shinpō, 2884; “Chiteki nettowāku no igi to kinō”(The significance and function of intellectual networks), in Shintō nihon bunka kenkyū kokusai shinpojiumu 5 : Shintō kenkyū no kokusaiteki nettowāku keisei, Kokugakuin daigaku 21seiki COE puroguramu kenkyū sentâ; “Nijūisseiki no kokumin sei” (Nationalism in the 21st century), Jinja Shinpō
2006: “Meiji shonen no shinbutsu hanzen rei to kindai Shintō no sōshutsu”(The ‘clarification’ of kami and Buddhas in early Meiji, and the creation of modern Shintō), Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai Kiyō, 43; “Yasukuni : rekishi kioku no keisei to sōshutsu”(Yasukuni: the formation and loss of historical memory), Sekai, 756; “Kōmei seiken no kakuritsu to tenkai”(The establishment and development of the Kōmei administration), Chūō Shigaku, 29; “Nayami to meishin” (Anxiety and superstition), Jinja shinpō 2858
2005: “Jūyondai shōgun Iemochi no jōraku to Kōmei seiken ron” (The Kyoto pilgrimage of the 14th shogun Iemochi and ‘Kōmei administration’ theory), in Meiji Ishin to bunka, Yoshikawakōbunkan; “Yasukuni shrine: ritual and memory”, Japan Focus 293
2004: “Shintō to Kirisuto kyō”(Shintō and Christianity), Shintō shi dai jiten, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan; “Mêson”(Mason), Shintō shi dai jiten; “Chênbaren”(Chamberlain), in Shintō shi dai jiten; “Death issues in 21st century Japan” in John Breen ed., Death in Japan; “The dead and the living in the land of peace: a sociology of Yasukuni” in John Breen ed., Death in Japan (Reprinted in Dolores Martinez ed. Religion and marginal society Routledge, 2007); “Tennō no gaikō girei to kokusai ninshiki” (The emperor's diplomatic ritual and international understanding), in Kindai nihon to kokusai ninshiki, Hōsō daigaku
2003: “Shintō and Christianity: a history of conflict and compromise” in Mark Mullins ed., Handbook of Christianity in Japan, Brill; “Meiji tennō no Ise sangū : sono sōzō sei to hitei sei” (The Meiji emperor's Ise pilgrimage: invention and denial), in Kōshitsu to Ise jingū, Tachibana shuppan
2002: “The rituals of Anglo-Japanese diplomacy: imperial audiences in early Meiji” in Tsuzuki Chūshichi ed., History of Anglo-Japanese relations 1600-2000 5: social and cultural perspectives, Palgrave; “Public ritual, private support: how the Japanese monarchy prepared itself for the 21st century” in Tom Bentley ed., Monarchies: what are kings and queens for?, Demos
2001: “Meiji shonen no gaikō girei : Nichi Ei kōryū shi no ichi danmen” (Early Meiji rituals of diplomacy: a dimension of Anglo-Japanese relations), in Nichi ei kōryū shi : 1600-2000,5 : shakai to bunka, Tōdai Shuppankai
2000: “Nativism restored”, Monumenta Nipponica, 55, 3; “Introduction: Shintō past and present”, (with Mark Teeuwen) in Breen and Teeuwen eds., Shintō in history: ways of the kami; “Ideologues, bureaucrats and priests: on Buddhism and Shintō in early Meiji Japan” in Breen and Teeuwen eds. Shintō in history: ways of the kami
1999: “Kaisetsu”(Commentary), in Naitō Hatsuho, Ōka, Chūkō Shinsho
1998: “‘Earnest desires’: the Iwakura embassy and Meiji religious policy”, Japan Forum, 10, 2; “Japan's post war paradox: between god and man”, History Today, 48, 4; “Public statements and private thoughts: the Iwakura embassy in London and the religious question”, LSE STICERD discussion paper, The Iwakura mission in Britain 1872
1996: “The Imperial Oath of April 1868: ritual, power and politics in Restoration Japan”, Monumenta Nipponica, 51, 4 (Reprinted in P. F. Kornicki (ed) Meiji Japan: political, economic and social history, 1868-1912, vol. 1, Routledge, 1998); “Accommodating the alien: Okuni Takamasa and the religion of the Lord of Heaven” in I.J. McMullen and P. Kornicki eds. Religion in Japan: arrows to heaven and earth, CUP; “Beyond the prohibition: Christianity in Restoration Japan” in Breen and Williams ed, Japan and Christianity
1995: “Kokugakusha Ōkuri Takamasa no Tenshukyōkan : gairai shūkyō juyō no ichi keitai” (Kokugakusha Ōkuni Takamasa and Christianity: a paradigm of acceptance), Nihon Rekishi 568; “Ōkuni Takamasa's Shinshin kōhōron”, (translated and annotated) in Tetsuo Najita ed., Readings in Tokugawa thought, select papers, vol. 9, University of Chicago, Illinois
1990: “Shintoists in Restoration Japan: towards a reassessment”, Modern Asian Studies, 24, 3 (Reprinted in P. F. Kornicki (ed) Meiji Japan: political, economic and social history, 1868-1912, vol. 1, Routledge, 1998)
1988: “Heretics in Nagasaki: 1790-96”, in Ian Nish ed., Contemporary European writing on Japan, Paul Norbury (Reprinted in Stephen Turnbull eds., Japan's Hidden Christians, 1549-1999, Japan Library, 2000.)

Others (Presentations at Academic Conferences, etc.)

2009: “The rite side of religion in Meiji Japan”, Defining religion, defining heresy workshop, Ruhr Universitaet, Dusseldorf, Germany; Commentator on “Religious practice” panel, The Tokugawa conference, Selwyn college, Cambridge University, March 25; “Jingu taima: observations on 21st century Shinto”; “The origins of the Sanno festival: or the modernisation of Hie jinja”, Mokuyō-zemi, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto; “Basic research on Hie jinja: rites, kami and their celebrants” Heiankyō kenkyūkai, Kyoto University; “Shrine stories”, Katsurazaka shōgakkō, demae jugyō; “The story of Shinto: present past and future”, Honkyo no naka no Shinto to do mukiau ka Raundo Te-buru, Konkokyo International Centre, Tokyo
2008: “The emperor’s ornaments: the Meiji emperor and modern Japanese diplomacy 1868-94”, Le Japon et l’empereur: vu de l’interieur, vu de l’exterieur, CEEJA, Alsace, France; “Kindai Sannō matsuri no keisei katei” (The making of the modern Sanno festival), Kokusai Shinto bunka kenkyukai, Meiji jingu, Tokyo, July 10; “Omi no kuni Hiyoshi Taisha : Sannō matsuri no ima mukashi” (Hiyoshi taisha, Omi province: the past and present in the Sanno festival), Japan Foundation Fellow Seminar, Kyōto fu Kokusai sentā, Kyoto, July 2; “Kanpei taisha Hie jinja : kindai kokka to shūkyō” (The great Kanpei shrine Hie: a case of the modern state and religion), Dai 399 kai Rekihaku kōza, Ōtsushi rekishi hakubutsukan, Ōtsu, May 24; “Sannō Hie jinja no kinsei : sōryo, sairei to saijin” (Sanno Hie shrine in the early modern: monks, festivals and kami), Kindai koto kenkyū kai, Jinbun kagaku kenkyūjo, Kyōto daigaku, May 10; “Shinto: 21st century issues”, Cabinet office, Prime Minister's strategy unit, London, February 27
2007: “Kinsei Shintō no hitokoma: Tendai shū, Enryaku ji, Hie jinja” (An aspect of early modern Shinto: Tendai, Enryakuji and the Hie shrine), Dai ni kai Kokusai Nihongaku konsō-shia-mu, Ocha no mizu joshi daigaku, Tokyo, December 17; Participated in “Nihon shūkyō bunka no tenkai” (The development of Japanese religious culture), SOAS-Kokugakuin PhD workshop at Kokugakuin daigaku, Tokyo, November 30; “Hiesha no kinsei : zen shi” (Early modern Hie: the early years), Dai ni kai Shintō koksuai gakkai riji senkō kenkyū ronbun happyō kai, Ise, November 18; “Telling tales: Yasukuni shrine and the Pacific war”, Japan society, Winchester college, May 24; “Fetishising the narrative of war” at ‘Symbols, images and knowledge: shaping Japanese historical memory’, inaugural roundtable conference of the National institute of Japanese studies, Sheffield university, April 20; “Pacific trauma”, Round table conference, Lieux de polémiques et lieux de justice, du sanctuaire Yasukuni à la Cour pénale internationale, discussion autour de Takahashi Tetsuya, College du France, Paris, March 17; “The idea and practice of Meiji kingship”, JRC-Universita Autonoma (Madrid) spring workshop; SOAS, March 3; “Tennō o katari, shinwa o kataru”(Narrating the emperor; discussing myth), at the JRC/Ochanomizu joint symposium; SOAS, January 20

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