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Books

2011: Overcoming Modernity: East Asian Community and the Kyoto School. Singapore & London: World Scientific Publishing Company. Co-edited with Naoki Sakai.
2010: Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture. London & Oakville: Equinox Publishing. 174p.; Yasumaru-Shisho eno Tairon: Bunmeika, Munshu and Ryogisei [Dialogue with Intellectual History of Yoshio Yasumaru: Civilization, Populace and Ambivalence]. Tokyo: Perikansha. 374p. Co-edited with Yoshio Yasumaru.
2009: Kiki-shiwa to Koukogaku: Rekishiteki Shigen no Nostalgia [Kiki Mythology and Nostalgia towards Historical Origin]. Tokyo: Kadokawa-shoten. 272p.; Homi K. Bhabha, Narrative no Kenri: Tomadoi no Sei ni mukete [Right to Narrate: Towards the life of perplexity]. (Translation in Japanese) Tokyo: Misuzu-shobo. 349p. Co-translated with Daniel Galimore.
2008: Marxism toyu Keiken:1930 - 1940 Nippon bo Rekishigaku [Experience of Marxism: Japanese Historiography in 1930’s - 1940’s]. Tokyo: Aoki-shoten. Co-edited with Harry Harootunian. 377p.
2007: Soushitsuo to Nostalgia: Kindai Nippon no Yohaku e [Sense of Loss and Nostalgia: Towards the Margin of Modern Japan]. Tokyo: Misuzu-shobo. 288p.
2006: Shukyo wo Katarinaosu: Kindaiteki Kategori no Saikou [Renarrating Religion: Reconsidering of Modern Category]. Tokyo: Misuzu-shobo. Co-edited with Talal Asad. 289p.
2005: Kinsei Choutei to Suika-Shinto: Ogimachi-Bunko no Shisoshi teki Kenkyu [The Early Modern Imperial Court and Suika-Shinto: a Perspective in Intellectual History Based on the Study of Ougimachi Library]. Tokyo: Perikan-sha. Co-edited with Ogura Shigeji. 358p.
2003: Kindai Nihon niokeru Shukyo-gensetsu to sono Keifu: Shukyo, Kokka, Shinto [Discourse on Religion and Its Genealogy in Modern Japan: Religion, Nation, Shinto]. Tokyo: Iwanami-shoten. 333p.
2002: Kindai Nihon niokeru Chishikijin to Shukyo: Anesaki Masaharu no Kiseki [Intellectuals and Religion in Modern Japan: The Locus of Anesaki Masaharu], Tokyo: Tokyodo-shoten. co-authored with Fukasawa Hidetaka. 428p.
1998: Kiki-shinwa no Metahistory [Metahistory of Kojiki-Nihonshoki], Tokyo: Yoshikawakobunkan. 215p.
1996: Tokyo-teikoku-daigaku Shinto-kenkyushitsu Kyu-zosho: Mokuroku to Kaisetsu [Annoted Bibliography of Works in the Collection of the Shinto Reseach Office of Tokyo Imperial University]. Tokyo: Tokyodo-shoten. Co-edited with Shimazono Susumu. 528p.
1994: Dogu and Kamen: Jomon-jidai no Shukyo kouzo [Clay Figurine and Clay Mask: The Religious Structure of the Jomon Period]. Tokyo: Azekura-shobo. 240p.
1991: Tokyo-daigaku Sogokenkyu-Shiryoukan Shozo Jomon-gidai Dogu sonota Doseihin Katarogu [Catalogue of the Tokyo University Museum Collection of Jomon Clay Figurines and Other Clay Objects]. Tokyo: The University Museum, The University of Tokyo. Co-edited with Akazawa Takeru. 374p. (Expanded edition, 1996. 396p.)

Articles

2012: “Japanese Modernity as Postcolonial Experience,” Asia & Europe Bulletin 1, University of Zurich. (English); “Fukushima hat den Kaiserkult noch verstärt,” Tages Anzelger, 25. Janur. (German)
2007: “State Shinto, Westernization, and the Concept of Religion in Japan.” In Timothy Fitzgerald, ed., Religion and the Secular: Historical an Colonial Formation, London: Equinox Publishing. (in English)
2006: “Study of Religion under Postcolonial Cituations.” The Council of the Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 4. (in English); “Religious Studies in Japan, with Reference to Christianity and State Shinto.” The Council of the Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin, vol. 34, no. 4. (in English)
2005: “Deconstructing 'Jpanaese Religion'”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 32, no.2. (in English)
2004: “Anesaki Masaharu”; “Yamato Takeru”; “Japanese Mythology.” Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan. (in English)
2002: “The Discursive Position of Religious Studies in Japan: Masaharu Anesaki and the Origins of Religious Studies.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, vol. 14, no. 2. (in English); “The Space of Historical Discourse: Ishimoda Sho’s Theory of Heroic Age.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, vol. 10, no. 3. (in English)
2000: “Re-appropriating the Japanese Myths: Motoori Norinaga and the Creation Myths of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2. (in English); “Tanaka Yoshito and the Beginnings of Shinto-gaku.” in J. Breen and M. Teeuwen, eds., Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami, Richmond: Curzon Press. (in English)
1999: “Myth in Metamorphosis: Ancient and Medieval Versions of the Yamatotakeru Legend.” in Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 54 no. 3. (in English)
1998: “The Establishment of Modern Shintology and the Role of Tanaka Yoshito.” Acta Asiatica, 75. (in English)

Others (Presentations at Academic Conferences, etc.)

2012: “Discursive Formation Surrounding “Religious Freedom” in Modern Japan: Religion, Shinto, Emperor System.” Conference “Modernity and Values in a Changing World” at Prince Abdul Mohsin Bin Jalawi for Research & Islamic Studies, Dubai, UAE, April.; “Discursive Formation around ‘Shinto’ in Colonial Korea.” Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada, March.(English); “Location f Reason: Subjectivity in Postmodernism and Postcolnialism,” seminar given at URPP Asia and Europe, University of Zurich, Switzerland, January.(English)
2011: “The Conceptual Formation of the Category ‘Religion’ in Modern Japan: Religion, State, Shinto” Center for Area Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany, December.(English); “The Conceptual Formation of the Category ‘Religion’ in Modern Japan: Religion, State, Shinto” URPP Asia and Europe, University of Zurich, Switzerland, December.(English); “Absence of Origin: Mythological and Archeological Attraction in Modern Japan.” Conference “Modes and Models of Religious Attraction” at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, July.(English); “Discursive Formation Surrounding “Religious Freedom” in Modern Japan: Religion, Shinto, Emperor System.” Conference “The Making of Religions in Modern Societies: Dialects between Language and Institutionalization” at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, February. (English); “Process of Development of Religious Studies in Japan—the Experience of “Religion”.” Workshop “The Formation of the Discipline of Religious Studies in Asia” at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, February. (English); “Meeting Others: How to Argue about the Internationalization of Shinto.” Amherst College, Germany, United States, January.
2010: “Meeting Others: How to Argue about the Internationalization of Shinto.” Japanology Institute at Tübingen University, Germany, November.(English); “Talal Asad: Diasporic Intellectual.” KHK at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, November.(English); “Meeting Others: How to Argue about the Internationalization of Shinto.” Mittagforum at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, October.(English); “Translation Theory in Post-modernism and Post-Colonial Criticism: Benjamin, Derrida, Bhabha, Butler and Sakai.” KHK at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, October. (English); “Doubling Buddhism: Buddhist Thought and Ritual Practice from the Early Modern Period to the Modern Period in Japan.” Heidelberg University, Germany, July. (in English); “Introductory Guide to Religious Studies: Re-narrate the Religious in Postmodern and Postsecular Age.” Seminar given at Department of Religious Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Summer Semester. (in English)
2009: “Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan: the Separation of State and Religion, Concepts of Religion, and State Shinto.” Conference of “Reconfigurations of Religious Field: ‘Secularization’ and Related Semantics in Intercultural, Historical and Political Perspective.” Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, December. (in English); “Religious Structure in Jomon Society.” International Symposium “Dogu: Ancient Art and Modern Inspiration.” the British Museum, London, November. (in English); “<Nihon no Shukyogaku>Saikou: Gakusetsushi kara Gakumonsji e” [Reconsideration of Religious Studies in Modern Japan: From Dogmatic History to Discursive History] . Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul in Korea, October. (in Japanese); “Tasha to Deau tameni: Nihon-bunka no Ronjikata” [Meeting with Others: How to Argue Japanese Culture]. International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto Japan, October. (in Japanese); “Negotiatig with Others: In the Case of Japanese Studies.” Kyoto Lectures at Italian School of East Asian Studies, Kyoto, June. (in English); “Kyoto-gakuha to ‘Kindai no Chōkoku: Kindaisei, Teikoku, Fuhensaei” [Kyoto School and ‘Overcoming Modernity’: Modernity, Empire and Universality]. Suyu + Trans, Seoul, Korea, June. (in Japanese); “Kyoto School and ‘Overcoming Modernity’: Modernity, Empire and Universality”, Conference of “Kyoto School and ‘Overcoming Modernity’.” International Research Center Of Japanese Studies, Kyoto, May. (in English)
2008: “Sengo Nihon no Marxism Rekishigaku: Sono Kigen to Bōkyaku” [Marxist Historiography in Postwar Japan: Its Origin and Oblivion]. Hang Yang University, Seoul, Korea, September. (in Japanese); “Religion, Shinto and Academic Discourse.” Conference of Conceptual History at Seoul University, Korea, September. (in English); “Kiki to Koukogaku” [Mythology and Archeology in Modern Japan]. Centre European d’Etudes Japonaises d’Alsace, Colmar, France, March. (in Japanese)
2007: “Mythology and Archeology in Modern Japan: Articulation of Nostalgia.” University of Athens, Greek, March. (in English); “’Religion/Secular’ Dichotomy in Modern Japan: On the Articulation of the ‘Indigenous’.” Conference of “ The Politics of Religion-Making”, Hofstra University, New York, October. (in English); “The “Religious/Secular” Dichotomy in Modern Japan: On Arguments of State Shinto.” Shinto Studies and Nationalism Symposium, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Vienna, Austria, September. (in English); “Shinto in Historical Transition.” Tübingen University Center for Japanese Language, Kyoto, Japan, June. (in English)
2006: “Critiquing Current Critques of the Field of Religious Studies.” North American Association for the Study of Religion, Washington D.C., November. (in English)
2005: “Rethinking ‘Japanese Religion’: The Transcendental and the Indigenous.” “The Character of Religious Studies in Japan.” International Association for History of Religion, Tokyo, March. (in English); “Study of Religion under Postcolonial Conditions.” Work Shop paper, Study of Religion under Postcolonial Conditions. Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, March. (in English)
2004: “Deconstructing Japanese Religion.” SophiaUniversity, Tokyo, October. (in English); “Ishimoda Sho and Postwar Historiography.” Columbia University, New York, March. (in English); “Deconstructing ‘Japanese Religion.’” Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March. (in English); “The possibility of Japanese Religion.” Princeton University, Princeton, February. (in English); Respondent, Asian Cultural Studies Workshop on Translation and Subjectivity: On "Japan" and Cultural Nationalism by Naoki Sakai. Harvard University, Cambridge, February. (in English)
2003 - 2004: “History of Marxist Historiogarphy.” Seminar given at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, September 2003-January 2004. (in English)
2003: “Deconstructing ‘Japanese Religion.’” Cornell University, Ithaca, September. (in English); “The Formation of State Shinto in Relation to the Western Concept of Religion.” Conference paper, Religion- Secular Dichotomy: Historical Formation in Colonial Contexts, University of Stirling, UK, July. (in English); “Articulating Impossibility: Derrida, Bhabha and Sakai.” Seminar given at SOAS, University of London, June- August. (in English); “The Formation of State Shinto in Relation to the Western Concept of Religion.” Department of Religious Studies, SOAS, University of London, June. (in English); “Overview of Studies of Japanese Religion.” Freie Universitat Berlin, June. (in English)
2000: “The Formation of the Concept of ‘Religion’ in Modern Japan.” International Association for the History of Religions, Durban. (in English); “Visions of the Study of Religion for the New Millennium.” International Association for the History of Religions, Durban. (in English)
1999: “Construction of the Historiographic Subject in the 1950’s: Ishimoda Sho’s Theory of the Heroic Age.” Reischauer Institute, Harvard University. (in English)
1998: “From Morality Theory to Shinto Studies.” Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C. (in English)

Grants

2005-2006: American Academy of Religion, “Modernity, University, the Science of Religion: History of the Study of Religion in Japan, 1877-2000.” with Tomoko Masuzawa

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