Naoko Shimazu is Professor of History in the Tokyo College at the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

. She was previously Professor of Humanities (History) at

Yale-NUS College Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore, it was the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asi ...

, Professor of History at

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, and

Fernand Braudel Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' (1955–79), and the un ...

fellow at the

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Research

Shimazu is a fellow of the

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Education

Shimazu has the following degrees: *1995 D.Phil. in international relations, University of Oxford *1985 B.A.(Honours) in political studies,

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*1987 M.Phil. in international relations, University of Oxford

Selected publications

*''Cold War Asia: A Visual History of Global Diplomacy'' (edited with Matthew Phillips, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023). Editor and author. *''Oxford Handbook on the Cultural History of Global Diplomacy, c.1750-2000'' (Editor with Christian Goeschel, contracted, forthcoming 2024). Editor and author. *''The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia'' (edited with Sabine Dullin, Etienne Forestier-Peyrat, Yuexin Rachel Lin), (London: Routledge, 2022). Editor and co-author. *''Postcard Impressions from Early 20th Century Singapore: Perspective from the Japanese Community'', co-authored with Regina Hong and Ling Xi Min (Singapore: National Library Board, 2020). Co-author. *''Imagining Japan in Postwar East Asia''. Routledge, London, 2013. (Co-editor with Paul Morris and Edward Vickers) *''Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory, and the Russo-Japanese War''.

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, Cambridge, 2009. *''Nationalisms in Japan''. Routledge, London, 2006. (editor) *''Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919''. Routledge, London, 1998.

References

External links

Naoko Shimazu on the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
''The Guardian''.
Full text of doctoral thesis, "The racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference: Japanese motivations and anglo-american responses"
via the Oxford Research Archive Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of Birkbeck, University of London University of Manitoba alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fernand Braudel Fellows {{historian-stub