KHK Visiting Research Fellow 2010, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan
Education
Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2010
M.A. Religious Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 1990
B.A. Japanese Historiography, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, 1984
Käte Hamburger Fellowship
Duration: April 2010 - March 2011
Project: Genealogy of Religious Discourse in Modern Japan
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Office Hours
on appointment
Areas of Research
Discourse on religion in early-modern to modern Japan, History of Japanese historiography, Japanese mythology, Worship of Goddess in Japanese primitive age
Individual Researcher of Bio-Politics, Public Life and Sovereignty: Focault, Arendt and Agamben , Genealogy of Religious Discourse in Modern Japan and Postsecularism in European and Asian Contexts
Former Fellow of Käte Hamburger Kolleg
