Faculty Information

■ Specialization and related fields

History of Japanese print culture, Japanese history, Intellectual history, religion, media, Chinese history, world history

■ Academic background

1.	Carleton University Graduated
2.	Carleton University B.Hum.
3.	University of British Columbia〔Master Course〕 Completed
4.	University of British Columbia M.A. (History)
5.	University of Southern California〔Doctorial Course〕 Completed
6.	University of Southern California Ph.D. (History)
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■ Business career

1.	2010～2011	Shibaura Institute of Technology Adjunct Instructor
2.	2010～2011	Sophia University Adjunct Instructor
3.	2011～2017	Kanda University of International Studies Department of Enlish, Global Communication Institute Assistant Professor
4.	2011～2017	Kanda University of International Studies Japan Research Institute Researcher
5.	2015～2020	Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages Part-time Lecturer
6.	2017～2020	Kanda University of International Studies Japan Research Institute Visiting Researcher
7.	2017～2020	Saitama University Adjunct Instructor
8.	2018～2020	Sophia University Adjunct Instructor
9.	2020/04～	Aoyama Gakuin University School of Global Studies and Collaboration Department of Global Studies and Collaboration Associate Professor
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■ Belonging society

1.		Bookselling Research Network (BRN)
2.		Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
3.		Japan Society of Publishing Studies
4.		Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)

■ Activity in society

1.	2024～	Editorial Board, Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture
2.	2023～	Committee Member, Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)
3.	2022/07	「変容する社会で、人はどう生きてきたのか：歴史からヒントを探る」　公開講座
4.	2021/11	「出版社と日本近代社会：岩波書店と講談社はいかに日本を代表する出版社となったのか？」　学問入門講座
5.	2018～	Advisory Editor, Book History (journal)
6.	2015～2016	The History of Premodern Japan (15-lecture MOOC series)
7.	2013/12～2019/03	Co-Translator,「英語歳時記」(Almanac of Seasonal Words), Yomiuri Shinbun
8.	2012～	Regional Liaison Officer for Japan, SHARP [Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing]
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■ Book and thesis

1.	Book	Reading Spaces in Modern Japan: The Evolution of Sites and Practices of Reading (Single) 2023/03
2.	Book	出版の「芸術」を拓く― 夏目漱石と明治後期における装丁 pp.177-214 (Single) 2023/03
3.	Book	Literary Pilgrimages for Play and Profit: Intersections of Reading, Space and Commodification in Contemporary Japan Routledge Companion to Literary Media, eds. Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round, & Bronwen Thomas pp.337-349 (Single) 2023
4.	Book	Crafting the Modern Word: Writing, Publishing and Modernity in the Print Culture of Prewar Japan Comparative Print Culture: A Study of Alternative Literary Modernities, ed. Rasoul Aliakbari pp.185-203 (Single) 2020
5.	Article	Seeking an Intellectual Foundation for Inter-Asian Collaboration: The Premodern Sino-Japanese Historical Experience 青山地球社会共生学論集 (9),pp.183-204 (Single) 2025/03
6.	Article	Global Human Resource Development from the Perspective of Japanese Culture: Preparing Japanese Interpreters to Assist Foreign Visitors in 2020 グローバル・コミュニケーション研究 6,pp.53-71 (Single) 2018
7.	Article	Reading Culture in Japan Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (Single) 2017
8.	Article	Mapping the Intellectual Landscape: Bookstores and Book Towns in the Late Meiji Era The Annals of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian U. 16(1),pp.267-276 (Single) 2016
9.	Article	English-Language Scholarship on Early Twentieth-Century Business History in Japan, Part 2: From the Late Postwar Era to the Present 神田外語大学日本研究所紀要 7,pp.1-24 (Single) 2015
10.	Article	English-Language Scholarship on Early Twentieth-Century Business History in Japan, Part 1: From the First Studies to the Postwar Era 神田外語大学日本研究所紀要 6,pp.1-30 (Single) 2014
11.	Article	The History of Books and Print Culture in Japan: The State of the Discipline Book History 14,pp.270-304 (Single) 2011
12.	Other	英文詳説日本史 Japanese History for High School (Collaboration) 2024/03
13.	Other	Bookstores, Libraries, Kashihonya & Dokushokai: a Historical Tour of Reading Spaces in Modern Japan Japan SPOTLIGHT 251,pp.28-31 (Single) 2023/09
14.	Other	Uchiyama Shoten: Rethinking Interwar Sino-Japanese Intellectual Exchange Japan SPOTLIGHT 229,pp.54-57 (Single) 2020/01
15.	Other	Japanese Intellectual Exchange with China & Korea During the Edo Period Japan SPOTLIGHT 228,pp.42-45 (Single) 2019/11
16.	Other	Review of Sari Kawana, "The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan: Histories and Cultures of the Book" Japan Review 34,pp.221-223 (Single) 2019
17.	Other	Review of Edward Mack, "Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value" SHARP News 20(3),pp.11-12 (Single) 2011
18.	Other	"Bronisław Piłsudski and N.P. Matveev," by Sawada Kazuhiko A Critical Biography of Bronisław Piłsudski, Vol. 1. Eds. Sawada Kazuhiko and Inoue Koichi. pp.417-446 (Single) 2010
19.	Other	"From Nagasaki to New York," by Sawada Kazuhiko A Critical Biography of Bronisław Piłsudski, Vol. 2. Eds. Sawada Kazuhiko and Inoue Koichi pp.121-130 (Single) 2010
20.	Other	"Japan in the Eyes of Bronisław Piłsudski," by Sawada Kazuhiko A Critical Biography of Bronisław Piłsudski, Vol. 2. Eds. Sawada Kazuhiko and Inoue Koichi pp.81-120 (Single) 2010
21.	Other	"The Japanese Days of Bronisław Piłsudski," by Sawada Kazuhiko A Critical Biography of Bronisław Piłsudski, Vol. 2. Eds. Sawada Kazuhiko and Inoue Koichi pp.39-80 (Single) 2010
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■ Lecturer and lecture

1.	2017/02/25	An Historian on Japanese Entrepreneurialism (神田外語学院)
2.	2016/02/29	Print Mass Media and Culture in Contemporary Japan (神田外語大学)
3.	2016/02/29	The Spirit of Entrepreneurship in Modern Japanese History (神田外語学院)
4.	2013/10/28	Japan’s Communities: Past and Present (神田外語大学)
5.	2011/11/18	It’s All Connections! ~Natsume Sōseki, Iwanami Shigeo, and Intellectual Life in the Late Meiji Period~ (津田塾大学)

■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2025/03/22	Translating a Japanese History Textbook (Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators (SWET))
2.	2024/09/27	Assessing the Iwanami Shoten Cases of 1940 and 2005: Intellectuals, Publishers and Responsibility in Modern Japan (Publishing, Literature, and Responsibility Symposium)
3.	2022/09/08	Japanese Bookselling in Times of Trouble: From the Great Kantō Earthquake to the Coronavirus Pandemic (Bookselling Research Network Conference)
4.	2021/02/04	Enterprising Authors and Cultural Capital in Prewar Japanese Publishing: The Case of Natsume Sōseki and Iwanami Shoten (EURAXESS Japan)
5.	2020/11/20	Seeking an Intellectual Foundation for Inter-Asian Collaboration: The Sino-Japanese Historical Experience (“Asia is One: Asian Cultures and Mind” SARC [South Asia Research Center, Soka University] – Japan Spotlight Joint Symposium)
6.	2019/09/05	Networking among Noble Families: Cases from the Japanese Medieval Experience (CARMEN (Worldwide Medieval Network))
7.	2019/07/16	The Ongoing Transformation of Public Reading Spaces in Japan (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP))
8.	2019/06/29	Purveyors of Books and Nodes in Networks: Bookstores in the Cultural Landscape of Early Twentieth-Century Japan (Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ))
9.	2019/06/14	Traversing the Social Landscape of Intellectual Life: Intellectual Networks in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (Modern Japan History Workshop)
10.	2018/07/11	A Disciple’s Outrageous Proposal: Natsume Sōseki and the Founding of the Publisher Iwanami Shoten (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP))
11.	2017/09/30	Shifting Views of Self-Cultivation: The Historiography of Kyōyōshugi in Modern Japan ("The Making of the Humanities VI” conference)
12.	2015/09/11	Mapping the Intellectual Landscape: Bookstores and Book Towns in the Late Meiji Era ("Japan – Premodern, Modern and Contemporary” conference)
13.	2012/03/24	Kanda-Jinbōchō: Tracing the Historical Contours of a ‘Town of Books’ in Tokyo (“Book Cultures, Book Events” conference)
14.	2011/04/03	The Circuits of Intellectual Life: Intellectual Circles in Late Meiji and Taishō Japan (Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) joint conference)
15.	2011/01/15	Social Circles and the Intellectual Community in Late Meiji Japan: A Case Study of the Mokuyōkai (Network Studies Research Group workshop “Networks in Early/Modern Japan”)
16.	2010/06/23	Natsume Sōseki and Iwanami Shigeo: A Study in Late Meiji Intellectual Culture (International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA))
17.	2009/09/08	Between East and West: Natsume Sōseki’s Intellectual Relations (Joint East Asian Studies Conference (JEASC))
18.	2008/10/05	Japanese Encounters with Lu Xun: Uchiyama Shoten and Rethinking Interwar Sino-Japanese Relations (Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC))
19.	2007/08/17	Publishers in Taishō Intellectual Culture: Iwanami Shoten and the Canonization of Nishida Kitarō (Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC))
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