Academic Employment
Since 2016: Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan)
Professor
Since 2011: Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan)
Associate professor
Since 2009: Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan)
Assistant professor
2009: Institute of Japanese Studies, Tübingen University (Germany)
Research project leader of the project : Cholera: Health and Hygiene in Nineteenth Century – Japan, sponsored by DFG
2008 – 2009: Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York, NY (USA)
Postdoctoral fellow
2005 – 2008: Institute of Japanese Studies, Tübingen University (Germany)
Research associate in the project: Money, Economy, and Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan, sponsored by DFG
2004 – 2005: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (USA)
Visiting assistant professor; Department of History and Program for East Asian Studies Program for East Asian Studies
Education
PhD (2006): Institute for Japanese Studies, Faculty of Cultural Science, University of Tübingen (Germany)
Title of thesis: Thinking Like a Man: Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825).
Researcher (1995): History Department, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo (Japan)
MA (1993): Department of Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Tokyo (Japan)
Title of thesis: The Blue Fear: Cholera Epidemics during the Late Tokugawa Period
Graduate Exchange Student (1989 – 1990): Department of Japanese History, Rikkyō University, Tokyo (Japan)