Research Interests
History of Japanese politics, International studies in East Asia, International politics
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D, University of Tokyo, 2009
Short Bio
ASANO Toyomi is a professor of history of Japanese politics at the Faculty of Political science and Economics, Waseda university. His areas of research are international and regional history in East Asia, which he argues on ‘legal and political’ analysis derived from the decolonization of Japanese Imperial order under American hegemony under so called Cold War situations. He graduated from doctoral course of the Graduate school of Advanced Social and International Studies in Tokyo University in 1998, affiliated as a research associate with Asia-Pacific Research Center of Waseda University 1998-2000, inaugurated to be a professor in Chukyo University from 2000 until 2014, receiving Ph.D. from Tokyo University in 2009. He had also been affiliated with Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University as a visiting fellow 1994- 1995, Modern Chinese History research Center in Academica Sinica in Taiwan 1999, Sigur Center in Elliot School of George Washington University 2006-2007, Asiatic Research Center in Korea University 2009 as a visiting scholar. He won the 25th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in June 2009 and the Yoshida Shigeru Prize in March 2009 as an author of ‘Teikoku Nihon-no Shokuminchi Housei (Japanese Empire in the Nation State System by Legal Analysis),’ from Nagoya University Press 2008. He had worked both in Foundation of Japan-Taiwan Exchange Center 1995-1996 as a program officer of history exchange project, and in Asia-Women’s foundation as a working group member 1996-1999 for elucidating the historical facts.
