Abstract

This book introduces 15 topics in modern Japanese history, including the Emperor System and sexual customs, which are often avoided in the educational field, in three parts: "International Order," "Thoughts," and "People and Culture," focusing on their relationship to the world as a whole. It breaks away from memorization-based, chronological history education and teaches students how to understand modern society from a global perspective.

Author’s Information

He completed his PhD in Literature at the Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University, majoring in Cultural Morphology. In 2010, he was awarded the Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize. After working as an assistant professor in the Department of History, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto Tachibana University, he became an associate professor in the Faculty of International Studies, Kyushu Sangyo University in 2015. His main works include Modern Japanese Diplomacy and the Asia-Pacific Order (2009, Showado) and Learning Japanese Diplomatic History for the First Time (2013, Showado). He specializes in the history of Japanese diplomacy.