Kan Kimura Explained

is a Japanese scholar of political studies and area studies. He is now a professor at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan.[1]

Career

Kimura was born in 1966 in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He studied at Kyoto University and received his L.L.D. in 2001 for his first book, Chosen/Kankoku Nashonarizumu to 'Shokoku-Ishiki (Korean Nationalism as a Small Nation).

He became a Research Associate at Faculty of Law and Literature of Ehime University in 1993, and taught between 1994 and 1997 as a Lecturer at the same university.

In 1997 he moved to the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University as an associate professor, and became a full professor in April 2005. He was appointed to the Director of Center for Asian Academic Collaboration at Kobe University in 2017 too.[2]

He was also a Research Fellow of Korea Foundation in 1996-1997, a visiting scholar at Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University in 1998-1999, a visiting scholar at Asiatic Research Center of Korea University in 2001, a visiting scholar at Sejong Institute in 2006, and a visiting fellow at Faculty of Asian Studies of the Australian National University in 2008. He was also a visiting scholar of The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington in Seattle from 2010 to 2011, a visiting professor at Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University in 2014.

At academic societies, he is a vice-president of the Association for Contemporary Korean Studies in Japan, and a director of Japanese Association of Modern East Asian Studies. He was also a director of the Japanese Association for Comparative Politics, research collaborator of the sub-committee on the modern history at the First Japan-Korea Collaborative History Research Committee, which was established by the agreement between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in 2001. He became a full committee member of the Second Japan-Korea Collaborative History Research Committee, which was established by another agreement of both governments in 2005.

In local societies, he worked as a director of Hyogo International Center from 2006 to 2007, which is under Hyogo Prefectural Government, and successively held various posts of the center from 2001 to 2007. He was also appointed to the president of "the Pan-Pacific Forum", an NPO in Kobe for international cooperation established in the 1980s.

Research

He studied comparative politics and area studies especially of East Asia. His principal interests are in relationships between modernization and ideology. His major research field is Korean Peninsula.

He was awarded the Special Prize of the 13th Asian and Pacific Prize by the Asia Society and Mainichi Shimbun newspaper in 2001 for Chosen/Kankoku Nashonarizumu to 'Shokoku-Ishiki (Korean Nationalism as a Small Nation), the 25th Suntory Academic Prize by the Suntory Foundation in 2003 for Kankoku ni okeru 'Kenishugiteki' Taisei no Seiritsu (Authoritarianization in South Korea), and The Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize by Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper and the Chuokoron Shinsha publishing house in 2015 for Nikkan Rekishininshiki Mondai towa Nanika (What the Historical Dispute between Japan and South Korea is).

Books

Major Articles in English

Education

Professional Experience

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. The information of this page is dependent on the official home page of Kan Kimura himself. http://kimurakan.web.fc2.com/
  2. Web site: センター長挨拶 . Message from the Director . Center for Asian Academic Collaboration, Kobe University .

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