KATSUJI NARA

Last Updated :2025/06/26

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
E-mail
knarahiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
I study about Meiji Restoration and the world view of people in those days. Especially, my strong fields are the thought of opening country in Tokugawa Shogunate, Confucianism at Shoheiko, the world view of anti-alienism, the figure of Kogi thought, democracy at Bakumatsu Period, Meta history about Meiji Restoration, and so on.

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Ritsumeikan University
  • Ritsumeikan University

Educational Activity

  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Letters : Humane Studies : History
  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Letters : Humane Studies : Humanities in English Program
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Humanities Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Humanities Program

Research Fields

  • Humanities;History;Japanese history

Research Keywords

  • Meiji Restoration
  • Neo Confucianism
  • Treaty
  • Antibarbarism
  • Kōgi

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Practicum in Museum Studies1(University Museum)
  2. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Practicum in Museum Studies1(University Museum)
  3. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Research Tutorial II
  4. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Introduction to Japanese History
  5. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, The Study on Japanese Modern History A
  6. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, The Study on Japanese Modern History B
  7. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, The Study on Japanese Modern History C
  8. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, The Study on Japanese Modern History D
  9. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Practice in Japanese History A
  10. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Practice in Japanese History B
  11. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Particular Study of the Areas History A
  12. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Particular Study of the Areas History B
  13. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis A
  14. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis B
  15. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
  16. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Graduation Thesis
  17. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, History of Japan
  18. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Practical Seminar for the Teaching Profession
  19. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences
  20. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences
  21. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences
  22. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences
  23. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Analytical Study of Sources of Modern Japanese History A
  24. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Study of Society and Culture in Modern Japan B
  25. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Research
  26. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Research
  27. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Special Research
  28. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Special Research

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. 'Early Modern Period' in Comprehenshive History, The Journal of Northeast Asian History, 20(2), 223-232, 2024
  2. The myth of Meiji Restoration and Theory of evolution, Nihonshisōshigaku, 32-38, 202209
  3. Kōgi, Shisōshi Kōgi, 61-78, 20221011

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. The thoughts about Confucianism and Westernization in Shishin, NARA Katsuji, 2021/06/05, With Invitation, Japanese, online
  2. "Aizawa Seishisai's thought of order in the Bakumatsu Period:through the analysis of mails to his nephew", EAJS Japan 2th conference, 2016/09, Without Invitation, Japanese, EAJS Japan, Japan, Kobe University
  3. "Koga Tōan's worldview and his decsiples", Cluster of excellence ASIA AND EUROPE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT "Global History and the Meiji Restoration", 2015, With Invitation, English, Cluster of excellence ASIA AND EUROPE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT, Heidelberg Unniversity
  4. "Japan and world order in "Long 19th Century"", 14th EAJS International Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014, Without Invitation, Japanese, EAJS, Ljubljana University

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. The research of the Japanese colonial period by constructing the system of transnational archives, 2016/07, 2019/03

Social Activities

Other Social Contributions

  1. Humanity Solutions to Address the Conflicts and Public Good of Global Society:Japanese studies, Hanyang University BKPlus Japanese research special team Hiroshima University Comparative Japanese project research center, 2019/10/19, 2019/10/19, Hiroshima University Social Sciences Campus B157, Organizing Member, Meeting or assembly, Researchesrs