Associate Professor
Current Research
Education:
- 1989
- B. A., Kyoto University
- 1991
- M. A., Kyoto University
- 1993
- Ph. D. Course, Kyoto University
Professional Experience:
- 2000 - 2001
- Fellow Researcher, Institute of Economic Research, Department of Social Sciences, Seoul National University, South Korea (as a long-term overseas researcher designated by the Education Ministry)
- 1998 - present
- Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- 1996 - 1998
- Full-time Lecturer, Department of Commerce and Economics, Kobe University of Commerce
- 1993 - 1996
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
- 1992 - 1993
- Research Assistant, Promotion of Scientific Research, MEXT
Specialized Fields:
Modern history of Japan-Korea relations
Current Research Themes:
Formation and development of the police organization in colonial Korea; Colonial Korea and the suffrage issue; Pan-Asianism in modern Japan and Korea; history of Korean minorities in Japan before and after WWII
Keywords for Research:
Colony, Korean history, the police, suffrage, Pan-Asianism, Korean residents in Japan
Major achievements:
Books
- 2009
- Nihon no Chōsen shokuminchi shihai to keisatsu: 1905-1945 (The Role of Police in Japan’s Colonial Rule of Korea: 1905-1945), Azekura Shobo
- Nihon no Chōsen, Taiwan shihai to shokuminchi kanryō (A Study of the Bureaucracy of the Japanese Colonial Empire) (co-author), Shibunkaku Shuppan
- 2004
- Shokuminchi teikoku Nihon no houteki kōzō (The Legal Structure of the Japanese Colonial Empire) (co-author), Shinzansha
- Nittei jiki no sansei mondai to Chōsenjin (The Political Suffrage of Koreans under Japanese Rule), Kokugakushiryōin
Articles
- 2008
- “Chōsen soutokufu hisho kachō to ‘bunka seiji’ -Moriya Eifu nikki o yomu” (The Chief Secretary of the Government-General of Korea and 'Cultural Rule’ - Reading the Diary of Moriya Eifu), Nihon no Chōsen, Taiwan shihai to shokuminchi kanryō, Kokusai kenkyū Shūkai hōkokusyo 30 (A Study of the Bureaucracy of the Japanese Colonial Empire,International Research Symposium Proceedings 30) pp.213-235
Service and Activities
- Temporary researcher, World Human Rights Research Center
- Member of the Advisory Board, Osaka International Peace Center
Academic Society Membership
- Korean History Study Group
- Japan Colonization Study Group
- The Association for Korean Modern and Contemporary History
- Workshop of History of Korean Residents in Japan
- Korean History Research Institute
