Associate Professor
Education:
- 1998
- LL.D., Kyoto University
- 1992
- M. A. in Law, Kyoto University
- 1990
- B. A. in Law, Kyoto University
Professional Experience:
- 2007-present
- Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- 2006-2007
- Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Hyogo
- 2004-2006
- Associate Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Hyogo
- 2001-2004
- Associate Professor, Department of Commerce and Economics, Kobe University of Commerce
- 1995-2001
- Research Fellow, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
- 1994-1995
- Research Assistant, Promotion of Scientific Research
Specialized Fields:
Modern Japanese History, Comparative Constitutional History
Current Research Themes:
Rethinking the constitutionalism in Meiji-Japan from the perspective of Intellectual history and international relations
Keywords for Research:
Constitutionalism, Meiji Constitution, Ito Hirobumi, Imperial university system, Knowledge as constitutional factor
Major publications:
Books
- 2010
- Ito Hirobumi, Chuko-shinsho, Chuo Koron-shinsha
- 2007
- The Meiji Constitution; The Japanese experience of the West and the shaping of the modern state, International House of Japan (translated by David Noble)
- Die österreichischen Einflüsse auf die Modernisierung des japanischen Rechts, Wilhelm Brauneder/Kazuhiro Takii(Hrsg.), Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main u.a.)
Articles (In Western languages)
- 2007
- “Lorenz von Stein und Japans Konstitutionalisierung”, Wilhelm Brauneder/Kazuhiro Takii(Hrsg.), Die österreichischen Einflüsse auf die Modernisierung des japanischen Rechts, Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main u.a.), S. 19-29
- 2005
- “The Constitution of Japan and Ito Hirobumi's Design” Gaiko Forum, vol.5, n.3, pp.3-10.(trslt. by Yukiko Ito)
Awards
- 2004
- Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation Prize
- Osaragi Jiro Prize for Critical Works
Academic Society Membership
- Association for Comparative Legal History in Japan
- The Japanese Association of Sociology of Law
- Conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions
- Vereinigung für Verfassungsgeschichte
