Associate Professor

TAKII Kazuhiro

TAKII Kazuhiro

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

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