Visiting Research Fellow
Research Interests
Professional Experiences
Professor, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Letters, Atomi Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan (Apr 2018 – Present)
Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Letters, Atomi Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan (Apr 2013 – Mar 2018)
Project Associate Professor, Sultan Qaboos Chair of Middle Eastern Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Apr 2011 – Apr 2012)
Research Associate, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan (Oct 2011 – Mar 2015)
Visiting Research Fellow, The Middle East Institute of Japan, Tokyo, Japan (July 2008 – Present)
Project Associate Professor, International Journalism Section, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Dec 2008 – Mar 2011)
Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Apr 2008 – Dec 2008)
Adjunct Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Oct 2006 – Mar 2008)
Affiliate in Research, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Sep 2004 – Sep 2006)
Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Sep 2001 – Aug 2004)
Education
Ph.D. (March 2001) in Area Studies (Middle East), Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Graduate Visiting Student, St Antony’s College, The University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. (Oct 1994 – Sep 1995 with a New Century Scholarship)
M.A. (March 1994) in Area Studies (Middle East), Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
B.A. (March 1992) in Arts and Sciences, Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Publication
Books
-Introduction to Israeli Political History: A Study on the Proceedings of the Cabinet Meetings in 1948, Kyoto: Jinbun Shoin, 2020. (Japanese)
-Zionism and the Arabs: Jabotinsky and the Israeli Right, 1880-2005, Tokyo: Kodansha Publishers, 2008. (Japanese)
-Socialist Zionism and the Arab Question: An Analysis of National Separatism in Ben-Gurion’s Political Thought, 1905-1939, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2002. (Japanese)
