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Research Field\uff1aGlobal history<\/strong> Research Field\uff1aPolitics<\/strong> Research Field\uff1aArea Studies<\/strong> Research Field\uff1aCity planning<\/strong> Research Field\uff1aEducational Sociology<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nReto Hofmann is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at Curtin University, Perth, and Research Adjunct at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies.\u00a0 He specializes in modern Japanese and international history.\u00a0 He is the author of The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915-1952 (Cornell University Press, 2015), and editor, with Max Ward, of Transwar Asia (Bloomsbury, 2021).\u00a0 His work has also appeared in the Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Global History, Japan Forum, and Journal of Asian Studies.\u00a0 He received his BA (Hons) from UWA and PhD from Columbia University.<\/p>\nSpeakers<\/h6>\n
ANNAKA Susumu
\nWIAS Alumnus, Assistant Professor,\u00a0 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hirosaki University<\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/annaka_sympo.png\")
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\nSusumu ANNAKA is an assistant professor at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in <\/span>Hirosaki<\/span> University.\u00a0 He <\/span>recieved<\/span> a PhD in political science from <\/span>Waseda<\/span> University.\u00a0 His main topics of interest are human development, human health and war.\u00a0 He published ‘Political Regime, Data Transparency, and COVID-19 Death Cases’ (SSM-Population Health, 2021) and co-authored article entitled ‘Political Liberalization and Human Development: Dynamic Effects of Political Regime Change on Infant Mortality across Three Centuries (1800-2015)’ (World Development, 2021) and ‘Can a Constitutional Monarch Influence Democratic <\/span>Preferences? Japanese Emperor and the Regulation of Public Expression’ (Social Science <\/span>Quartely<\/span>, 2022).\u00a0 He also published several papers in Japanese <\/span>refreed<\/span> journals.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nUNNO Noriko
\nAssistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University<\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/unno_sympo-scaled.jpg\")
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\nNoriko UNNO is currently Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study.\u00a0 She specializes in the modern history of China and Central Eurasia and Islamic studies.\u00a0 She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., from the University of Tokyo, in 2017.\u00a0 She has conducted research at the Harvard Yenching Institute, the National Chengchi University, and the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences.\u00a0 She is the author of numerous scholarly articles which explore the social history of Sinophone Muslims and the Turkic people in today\u2019s Xinjiang, their relations with the Ottoman, Japanese, and Russian empires, and Japan\u2019s Islamic policy in the WWII.<\/p>\nYAMAMURA Shu
\nWIAS Alumnus, Associate Professor, Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University<\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/yamamura_sympo.png\")
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\nShu Yamamura is Associate Professor of Planning at the Department of Urban Science and Policy, Tokyo Metropolitan University.\u00a0 He completed his undergraduate studies at Waseda University and worked for several ICT companies.\u00a0 After six years in ICT business as an investment manager being in charge of M&A of high-tech startups, he returned to the Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering at Waseda, and he gained a master’s degreein architecture and a Ph.D. in engineering.\u00a0 His research interests lie at the crossroads of interdisciplinary research between urban planning and social sciences.\u00a0 Current research projects and interests of him relate to creative industry clusters in Tokyo (ICT, animation, apparel design, etc.), business location theories, knowledge-city policies, inner city problems and revitalization, urban structural transformation of metropolitan suburbs, etc.<\/p>\nEDWARDS JR Donald Brent
\nAssociate Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University<\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/edwards_sympo-scaled.jpg\")
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\nD. BRENT EDWARDS JR. is Associate Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies at Waseda University.\u00a0 His work focuses on (a) the global governance of education, and (b) education policy, politics and political economy, with a focus on low-income countries.\u00a0 Within these research lines, Edwards has focused on investigating the rise of global education policies and the influence of international organizations in education reform.\u00a0 Geographically, these areas of focus have led to research primarily in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Paraguay), as well as Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines), and Africa (Kenya, Namibia, Zambia).<\/p>\n