Research Organization

To view our members’ research achievements, see research map, CiNii Articles, and CiNii Books.

Principal Investigator

  • TANIGUCHI Shinko: Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University. Specialist in early modern Japanese history. With a main focus on Japanese history as well as related disciplines, such as the history of ideas, legal history and literature, she researches the state of Japan against the backdrop of the global transformation of the 19th century from a military history perspective.

Co-Investigator

  • HARADA Keiichi
    Professor Emeritus, Bukkyo University.
    Modern History of Japan, Military History.
  • KOMATSU Kaori
    Professor​, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University.
    History of the Ottoman Empire.
  • MARUHATA Hiroto
    Professor​, Department of Intercultural Studies, Keiwa College.
    Modern German History, Military History.
  • SASAKI Makoto
    Professor​, Faculty of Letters, Komazawa University.
    Early Modern French History.
  • SUZUKI Tadashi
    Professor​, Faculty of Letters, Chuo University.
    Early Modern German History, Military History.
  • YANAGISAWA Akira
    Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University.
    Early Modern East Asian History (Qing history).
  • YOSHIZAWA Seiichiro
    Professor​, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology​, The University of Tokyo.
    Modern History of China.
  • KOGURE Minori
    Associate Professor, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Juntendo University.
    Specialist in Dutch-Japanese Diplomatic Relations in the late Tokugawa era.
    Presently he is conducting research on international relations in Asia during the mid-nineteenth century, based on archival materials in the Netherlands, the US, the UK and the Republic of Indonesia. This study is aimed at identifying differences between the views of western governments and their regional representatives in Asia.
  • SAITO Keita
    Associate Professor, Kyoto University of Education.
    Early Modern German History.
  • TAKEMOTO Tomoyuki
    Professor, Faculty of Current Business, Yasuda Women's University.
    Modern History of Japan, Specialist in Modern Japanese Political History.
  • NAKAJIMA Hiroki
    Associate Professor, Division of Liberal Arts, Natural, Social and Health Sciences, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University.
    Modern German History, Military History.
  • HASEBE Kiyohiko
    Lecturer(Part-Time), University of Tokyo, and others.
    History of the Ottoman Empire.

Research Collaborator

  • MATSUMOTO Akira
    Professor Emeritus, Niigata University.
    Modern German History.
  • SEIGAN Kobo
    Former Associate Professor of the Aoyamagakuin Women’s Junior College.
    He received his PhD at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, in 1998.
    Specialist in French military history.
  • TAKEMURA Atsushi
    Visiting Researcher of the Research Center for Liberal Education, Musashino University; Lecturer(Part-Time) of Kawamura Gakuen Woman’s University and Shonan Kamakura University of Medical Sciences.
    Modern History of French, Military History.

Foreign Collaborators

  • Andrew COBBING: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Nottingham, Specialist in nineteenth-century Japanese cultural and diplomatic relations.
  • BERLINGUEZ-KONO Noriko: Professor, University of Lille (Université de Lille), France. Specialist in modern Japanese legal history.
  • Catherine DENYS: Professor, University of Lille (Université de Lille), France. Specialist in modern French police history.
  • Grégoire SASTRE: Associated Researcher at the Center for Japanese Studies (CRJ) at the EHESS (Paris), Specialist in modern Japanese Intelligence Studies and military history.