Education

• 1982

  B.A. in Social Science, University of Tsukuba

• 1984

  M.A. in Social Science, University of Tsukuba

Selected Publications

English

• "Exhibition of the Past and Historical Recognition in the Unified Germany"

  NIDS Security Reports, no. 2 (2001).

• "Shaping the Image of a Next War: The Impact of WWI upon the Japanese Leadership"

  John A. Lynn ed. Coming to the Americas, 2002.

• "Historical Perception in Postwar Japan: Concerning the Pacific War"

  NIDS Security Reports, no. 4 (2003).

• "Japanese Strategy in the Final Phase of the Pacific War"

  Strategy in the Pacific War (NIDS International Forum on War History: Proceedings), 2010.

• "What Should the "Pacific War" be Named?: A Study of the Debate in Japan"

  NIDS Security Reports, no. 12 (2011).

Japanese

• "Konoe Fumimaro Zo no Saikento [Konoe Fumimaro Reconsidered:His Views of the World]"

  Kindaishi Kenkyukai, ed., Hendoki no Nihongaiko to Gunji [Japan at the Crossroads:Crisis Diplomacy and the Role of the Military], Tokyo:Hara-Syobo,1987.

• "Nicchu Senso no Boppatsu to Konoe Fumimaro no Kokusaiseigiron [Konoe Fumimaro's Vision of International Justice and the New Order in East Asia]"

  Kokusai Seiji [International Relations], vol. 91(May 1989).

• "Higashiajia niokeru Chugoku Mondai[The China Problem in East Asia:The Lytton Commission Report and the Tokyo War Crimes Trials]"

  Gunji Shigaku[The Journal of Military History],vol.26,no.2(September 1990).

• "Yoshida Shigeru to Konoe Fumimaro[Yoshida Shigeru and Konoe Fumimaro]"

  Yoshida Shigeru Kinen Jigyo Zaidan, ed.,Ningen Yoshida Shigeru[The Biography of Yoshida Shigeru],Tokyo:Chuokoron-sha,1991.

• "Konoe Fumimaro no Taibeikan[Konoe Fumimaro's Perception of the United States]"

  Gaiko Jiho[Revue Diplomatique], no. 1285(February 1992).

• "Konoe Josobun no Saikento[Konoe Fumimaro and Konoe'Memorial to the Throne in Februaly 1945]"

  Kokusai Seiji [International Relations],vol. 109(May 1995).

• "Toitsu Doitsu niokeru Kako no Tenji to Rekishi Ninshiki[How Post-Reunification Germany Views and Presents History:Treatment of Holocaust]"

  NIDS Security Studies, vol.3, no.2(November 2000).

• "Konoe Fumimaro no Taibeikan[Konoe Fumimaro's Perception of the United States]"

  Hasegawa Yuichi ed.,Taishoki Nihon no Amerika Ninshiki[Japanese Perception of the United States in Taisho Era],Tokyo:Keio-Gijuku-Daigaku-Shuppankai,2001.

• "Shokuminchi-Sabunkatsuron to nihon [Colonial Readjustment and Japan: In Pursuit of a New World Order]"

  Kokusai Seiji [International Relations], vol. 139(November 2004).

• "Shinchitsujyo no Mosaku to Kokusaiseigi Ajiashugi[The Quest for International Justice and Asianism in a "New Order in East Asia": Fumimaro Konoe and his Vision of the World]"

  Tomoyuki Ishizu and Williamson Murray eds. Nichibei Senryaku Shisoshi[The Making of Strategy: The U.S. and Japan], Sairyusha, 2005

• "Chosensenso to Nihon no Taio-Yamaguchiken wo Jirei toshite-[ The Korean War and the Japanese Response: Case Study of Yamaguchi Prefecture]"

  NIDS Security Studies, vol.8, no. 3(2006).

• "Chosensenso to Nihon no Taio(Zoku)-Yamaguchiken wo Jirei toshite[ The Korean War and the Japanese Response: Further Examination of the Case of Yamaguchi Prefecture]"

  NIDS Security Studies, vol.10, no. 2(2008).

• ""Senshi Sosho" niokeru Rikukaigunheiritsu nikansuru Ichikosatsu-"Kaisenkeii" wo Chushin toshite-[ Separate Army and Navy Versions of the Road to Pearl Harbor in the Senshi Sosyo(Official History of the Pacific War): the Whys the Differences]"

  Senshi Kenkyu Nenpo [ NIDS Military History Studies Annual], no.12(March 2009).

• "Nicchu to Doitsu・Porando niokeru Rekishi to wakai-Sono Kyotsuten to Soiten wo Chushin toshite-[ History and Reconciliation of Japan-China and Germany-Poland: A Comparative Study]"

  Fumitaka Kurosawa and Ian Nish eds. Rekishi to Wakai [ History and Reconciliation], University of Tokyo Press, 2011.

• "Rekishininshiki womeguru Nihongaiko-Nicchukankei wo Chushin toshite-[ A Clash of Historical Perceptions: Japan's Postwar Disputes with China]"

  Kokusai Seiji[ International Relations], vol. 170(October 2012).

• "Konoe Fumimaro no Sengo to"Kokutaigoji""-[Konoe Fumimaro around the Preservation of Kokutai at the Postwar-period]"

  Ryoichi Tobe ed., Kindainihon no Ridashippu [Leaders at Crossroads in Modern Japan], Chikura Shobo,2014.

German

• "Die Beziehung zwischen Politik und Militaer im japanischen Modernisierungsprozess des 19. Jahrhunderts"

  Michael Epkenhaus und Gerhard P. Gross Hrsg. Das Militaer und der Aufbruch in die Moderne 1860-1890, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2003

• Committee Member on the Modern and Contemporary Eras of the Japan-China Joint History Research Committee (2006-2010)