SHINOHARA, Taku

Education & Employment

1987

B.A. in Literature, The University of Tokyo

1989

M.A. in Western History, The University of Tokyo

1990

Faculty of Philosophy & Art, Charles University in Prague, Czech

1993

Lecturer, Tokyo Gakugei University

1995

Lecturer, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

1999

Associate Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2008

Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2009

Professor, Institute of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Research Fields

• History of Central and Eastern Europe

Major Publications

• ”Vývoj japonské historiografie po druhé světovéválce”, Historické listy (Praha), No.3 (1995) pp.37-40
• “Central European Discourses from Historical Perspective”, The Emerging New Regional Order in Central and Eastern Europe, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 1997., pp. 29-46.
• “Some Characteristics of the Development of the Rural Society in Bohemia”, The Transformation of the Systems of East-Central Europe Rural Societies before and after 1989, Kecskemét(Hungary), 1996., pp. 29-38
• “Legitimizace historie a koncepce národních dějin”, Dějiny a současnost (Praha), 6/2000, pp.2-5.
• “Communal Autonomy as a Base of Civil Society: Local Autonomy and the Building of National Culture in Bohemia in the 19th. Century”, HAYASHI Tadayuki(ed.), The Construction and Deconstruction of National Histories in Slavic Eurasia. Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 2003. pp.311- 330.
• “Historical Consciousness and Civil Ethics: Debating the 'Painful Past' and Reviving 'Central Europe' among Dissident Circles”, Regions in Central and Eastern Europe - Past and Present, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University,pp.231-253, March, 2007.