Faculty

Full-time Faculty

Associate Professors

Edward BOYLE Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information
Specialized Field(s)	Border studies; heritage; islands
Current Research Themes	My work examines the production and negotiation of borders from the early-modern to the contemporary era, and constitutes a series of interdisciplinary engagements with notions of sovereignty and territory, issues of spatial representation, the politics of belonging and marginalization, and the material with which the past is remembered in our present. I study borders and borderland spaces in Japan and Northeast Asia more broadly, and also conduct field research in Northeast India and on the Pacific.
Keywords for Research	borders and boundaries, cultural heritage, cartography, regional governance, territorial disputes, immigration, infrastructure, spatial cognition

Education

2005	B.A. First Class, SOAS, University of London
2010	L.L.M., Faculty of Law, Hokkaido University
2018	Ph.D., Politics, Hokkaido University

Professional Experience

2015	Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University
2018	Research Associate, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
2021	Associate Professor, Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Achievements

Co-authored Books

・（編集）Edward Boyle, Japan Review, Vol.39, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 25 December 2024
・（共編）Edward Boyle,Steven Ivings, Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire , Bloomsbury, 19 September 2024
・ (edit) Edward Boyle, Japan Review, Vol.38, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, December 2023
・ (co-edited) Edward Boyle, Steven Ivings, Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific, BRILL, October 2023
・ (co-edited) 池炫周直美、エドワード・ボイル, 『日本の境界：国家と人びとの相克』, 北海道大学出版会, 2022年12月

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Articles

・ Fluid Material: Japan’s Islands as Geo-Political, Geopolitics, Taylor＆Francis Online, 4 March 2025, pp.1-19
・ Publishing for Global Japanese Studies: Trends and future prospects, Trends in Japanese StudiesVol.1 No.1, 国際日本文化研究センター, 27 December 2024, pp.1-7
・ Mapping Japan’s North: Material Traces of an Enduring EncounterMapping Japan’s North: Material Traces of an Enduring Encounter, Mapping Japan: Enduring Encounters , Brill, 18 November 2024, pp.17-42
・ Okinoshima, Universal Heritage and Borders of Memory, Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific, Brill, October 2023, pp.328-352
・ Lapped by the Tide: Borders of Memory on the island of Peleliu, Palau, Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific Difficult Heritage and the Transnational Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism, Hong Kong University Press, August 2022, pp.27-44

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・ Shifting borders of memory: Japan’s Industrial Heritage Information Centre, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 12.1, emerald publishing, 2022, pp.19-31
・ Illuminating Edges: Borders as Institutions, Process, Space, Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands, Amsterdam University Press, 2021, pp.27-44
・「パラオの戦跡－記憶化の視点から」, 『知っておきたいパラオ ― ボーダーランズの記憶を求めて』, 北海道大学出版会, 2020年
・ Mapping of the Maritime Boundaries at Japan’s Northern Edge in the 19th Century, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, Oxford University Press, 2020
・ Borders of Memory: affirmation and contestation over Japan’s heritage, Japan Forum 31(3), 2019, pp.293-312
・ Sketching Layers in Japan: Mineral wealth, geo-bodies and imperial territory, Mapping Empires, Springer, 2019, pp.3-22
・ Cartographic Exchange and Territorial Creation: Rewriting Northern Japan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge , Springer, 2018, pp.75-98
・ Imperial Practice and the making of modern Japan’s territory: Towards a reconsideration of Empire’s boundaries, Geographical review of Japan series B 88(2), 公益社団法人　日本地理学会, 2016, pp.66-79
・「徳川幕府による蝦夷地の創造 : 国家、領域及び地図」, 『北大法学論集』第63巻2号, 2012年

Co-authored Articles

・ Edward Boyle, Steven Ivings, Introduction: Siting Japan’s empire and borders of memory, Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire , Bloomsbury, 19 September 2024, pp.1-10
・ Edward Boyle, Steven Ivings, Introduction: Heritage Sites and Borders of Memory, Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific, Brill, October 2023, pp.1-27
・ Edward Boyle, Naomi Chi, Border Control and the Migration Policy Puzzle in Japan, Borders and Migration The Canadian Experience in Comparative Perspective, University of Ottawa Press, January 2023, pp.273-294
・エマニュエルブルネイ＝ジェイ、池炫周直美、エドワードボイル, 「日本の境界・国境を問う」, 『日本の境界：国家と人びとの相克』, 北海道大学出版会, 2022年11月, pp.1-12
・エマニュエルブルネイ＝ジェイ、池炫周直美、エドワードボイル, 「結びにかえて」, 『日本の境界：国家と人びとの相克』, 北海道大学出版会, 2022年11月, pp.183-188

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・ Iwashita Akihiro,Yong-Chool Ha and Edward Boyle , Introduction: Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia, Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia, Routledge, August 2022, pp.1-26
・ Iwashita Akihiro,Yong-Chool Ha and Edward Boyle , Conclusion: Reflecting on Regional Community in Northeast Asia, Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia, Routledge, August 2022, pp.214-226
・ Edward Boyle, Akihiro Iwashita, Bordering and Scaling Northeast Asia, Asian Geographer 38(2), 2021, pp.119-138
・ Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman, Edward Kieran Boyle, Infrastructure as Archive: Recording the State’s Materiality along the Brahmaputra, Roadsides 5, 2021, pp.60-67
・ Edward Boyle, Sara Shneiderman, Redundancy, Resilience, Repair: Infrastructural Effects in Borderland Spaces, Verge: Studies in Global Asias 6(2), 2020, pp.112-138
・ Edward Kieran Boyle, Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman, Labouring for Connectivity in Arunachal Pradesh, Roadsides 2, 2019, pp.96-109

Other Publications

・（共著）Edward Boyle, Hyunjoo Naomi Chi, “Preface : Russia, Ukraine and Japan in Eurasia”, Eurasia Border Review12(1), Hokkaido University, December 2022
・「「記憶の境界」からみる沖縄のいま」, 『日文研』67号, 国際日本文化研究センター, 2022年09月, pp.24-30

Presentations, Symposiums, Lectures etc.

・ (口頭（一般）), Heritage Effects: on Takashima’s infrastructural archive, Heritage, Development and Modernity – Local Perspectives from Asia and Beyond, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Academia Sinica・中央研究院, 28 November 2024
・ (口頭（招待・特別）), Resilient Materials: Heritage in Disaster Recovery, Disaster and the Humanities: Preservation, Management, and Heritage, University of Bonn, Bonn, 27 September 2024
・ (口頭（一般）), Island Extraction, Industrial Heritage, and Global Asia: Memorializing Takashima, AAS-in-Asia 2024, Association for Asian Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Bulaksumur, Sleman, Special Region of Yogyakarta, 9 July 2024
・ (口頭（基調）), Heritage Contestation and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific, East Asian Studies Seminar , University of Manchester, University of Manchester, 14 June 2024
・ (口頭（一般）), Continuity across Borders of Memory? Local articulations of colonial-era heritage in South Korea, ACHS 2024, University of Galway, University of Galway, 4 June 2024

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・ Island Archive: Reading infrastructural remains on Takashima, AAS 2024, AAS/Association for Asian Studies, Sheraton Grand Seattle and the Seattle Convention Center, March 2024
・「日本の最先端から考えるー境界、遺産化、そして「島」の再考に向けて」, 日文研木曜セミナー, 国際日本文化研究センター, オンライン, 2023年11月
・ Pineapples, Papers, and Pride: Taiwanese immigration to Ishigaki, EAJS 2023, EAJS/European Association for Japanese Studies , University of Ghent, August 2023
・ Asian Cities in Motion: Colonialism, Capitalism and Nostalgia, AAS-in-Asia 2023, AAS/Association for Asian Studies, Kyungpook National University (KNU), June 2023
・ Transnational Difficult Heritage and Memory Politics, Trans-Asian Mnemoscapes: Rethinking the Politics of Memory in Asia and Beyond, CGSI/Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University, June 2023
・ Fixed yet fluid: the Ocean and Japan, IGU Thematic Conference on Oceans, IGU/International Geographical Union, University of Milano-Bicocca, June 2023
・ “Japan’s Infrastructural Investment in Northeast India”, DIJ Conference on Transnational Research in a Multipolar World, DIJ/Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, 上智大学, May 2023
・ Insular Heritage: Okinoshima and its Memorialization, IGU-TC Conference on Islands in Relations: Conflicts, Sustainability, and Peace, IGU/International Geographical Union, 大阪公立大学, April 2023

Lectures

・ 2023年4月～2024年3月, 九州大学大学院法学府, 非常勤講師, 「Security Policy, International Relations in East Asia」
・ 2023年11月, 北京大学現代日本研究センター , 非常勤講師, 「Politics and Society in postwar Japan」

Other Activities

・ 2025年3月20日～2025年3月21日, （学会・大会・研究会・シンポジウムの企画運営等）21st Century Borders, Mobility, and Risk in Japan – Early Career Researcher Writing Workshop、日文研、ビクトリア大学、長崎大学、北海道大学
・ 2024年12月10日, （助言・指導・情報提供）博士第20期秋学期講義、日本文化・思想③、北京大学現代日本研究センター、国際交流基金
・ 2024年10月27日, （審査・学術的助言）Diversifying Heritage and Remembrance in Contemporary Japan、金沢大学金沢駅前サテライト、金沢大学人間社会研究域附属グローバル文化・社会研究センター
・ 2024年10月1日～2025年3月31日, （助言・指導・情報提供）外国報道の分析、京都大学
・ 2024年4月1日～2025年3月31日, （助言・指導・情報提供）Security Policy, International Relations in East Asia、九州大学大学院法学府

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・ 2024年2月15日～2024年2月16日, （主催者）21st Century Borders in Japan - Early Career Researcher Writing Workshop、北海道大学公共政策大学院