Eiji OGUMMA Web site

A Genealogy of “Japanese Self-Images, (2002, Trans Pacific Press, Melbourne) Translation of Tan'itsu minzoku shinwa no kigen: "Nihonjin" no jigazō no keifu [Origin of the myth of the homogenous nation: A genealogy of "Japanese" self-images] (1995, Shinyōsha, Tokyo).

The Boundaries of “Japanese” vol 1. :Okinawa 1868-1972 (2014, Trans Pacific Press, Melbourne) Translation of “Nihonjin” no kyōkai: Okinawa, Ainu, Korea, and Taiwan 1868-1972 (1998, Shinyōsha, Tokyo).

The Boundaries of “Japanese” vol 2. :Korea, Taiwan, Hokkaido 1868-1945 (2017, Trans Pacific Press, Melbourne) Translation of “Nihonjin” no kyōkai: Okinawa, Ainu, Korea, and Taiwan 1868-1972 (1998, Shinyōsha, Tokyo).

Trans Pacific Press


“A New Wave Against the Rock: New social movements in Japan since the Fukushima nuclear meltdown,” The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol. 14, Issue 13, No 2; July 1, 2016.

“Japan's 1968: A Collective Reaction to Rapid Economic Growth in an Age of Turmoil,” The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol. 13, Issue 11, No 1; April 1, 2015.

“Nobody Dies in a Ghost Town: Path Dependence in Japan's 3.11 Disaster and Reconstruction,” The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol. 11, Issue 44, No 1; November 4, 2013.


“The Green of the Willow, the Flower’s Scarlet: Debate on Japanese Emigrant and Korea under the Japanese Empire”, Deconstructing Nationality, ed. By Naoki Sakai, Brett de Bary, and Iyotani Toshio, East Asia Program Cornell University, New York, 2005.

“Human Sciences and National Identity in Modern Japan: Who Defined the 'Japanese Tradition'? ” China Report Vol 36, No.2 ; 2000

Official Website with a Trailer
DVD (104 minutes, subtitled in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, and Korean) with book: Tell the Prime Minister, (2017, Syueisha International, Tokyo).

To screen the DVD in public and the classroom for the education use, please email the agent of the copyright proprietor,UPLINK Co.at（film@uplink.co.jp）

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• 2016 Visiting Professor of Center of East Asian Studies(GEAS), Freie Universität Berlin
• 2014 Visiting Professor of Center of Asian and African Studies(CEAA), El Colegio de MexicoN
• 2006 Professor of Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University.
• 2005 Visiting Professor of SECTION D'ETUDES JAPONAISES, Université Paris Diderot- Paris 7
• 2002 Assistant Professor of Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
• 2000 Visiting Professor of Department of East Asian Studies, Delhi University
• 1997 Lecturer of Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
• 1995 Master of Arts in Sociology, 1997 PhD in Sociology, Department of International Social Science, University of Tokyo.
• 1987-1993 Editorial board of Sekai [The World], a monthly journal established in 1946 by Iwanami publisher
• 1987 Bachelor of Arts in Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University.

e-mail address : oguma@sfc.keio.ac.jp