Naoko Shimazu

Naoko Shimazu FRHistS is Professor of History in the Tokyo College at the University of Tokyo. ^[1] She was previously Professor of Humanities (History) at Yale-NUS College, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Fernand Braudel fellow at the European University Institute.

Research

Shimazu is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. ^[2]

Education

Shimazu has the following degrees: ^[2]

• 1995 D.Phil. in international relations, University of Oxford ^[3]
• 1985 B.A.(Honours) in political studies, University of Manitoba
• 1987 M.Phil. in international relations, University of Oxford

Selected publications

• Cold War Asia: A Visual History of Global Diplomacy (edited with Matthew Phillips, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023). Editor and author.
• Oxford Handbook on the Cultural History of Global Diplomacy, c.1750-2000 (Editor with Christian Goeschel, contracted, forthcoming 2024). Editor and author.
• The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia (edited with Sabine Dullin, Etienne Forestier-Peyrat, Yuexin Rachel Lin), (London: Routledge, 2022). Editor and co-author.
• Postcard Impressions from Early 20th Century Singapore: Perspective from the Japanese Community, co-authored with Regina Hong and Ling Xi Min (Singapore: National Library Board, 2020). Co-author.
• Imagining Japan in Postwar East Asia. Routledge, London, 2013. (Co-editor with Paul Morris and Edward Vickers)
• Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory, and the Russo-Japanese War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009.
• Nationalisms in Japan. Routledge, London, 2006. (editor)
• Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919. Routledge, London, 1998.

References

1. Tokyo College. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
2. 1 2 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
3. Naoko, Shimazu (1995). "The racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference". Oxford Research Archive. University of Oxford.

External links

• Naoko Shimazu on the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Guardian.
• Full text of doctoral thesis, "The racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference: Japanese motivations and anglo-american responses" via the Oxford Research Archive