Naoko Shimazu is Professor of History in the Tokyo College at the University of Tokyo. Tokyo College. Retrieved 14 May 2025. She was previously Professor of Humanities (History) at Yale-NUS College, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Fernand Braudel fellow at the European University Institute. She is a Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes on Modern History and International Relations at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.
Research
Shimazu is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Education Shimazu has the following degrees: 1995 D.Phil. in international relations, University of Oxford 1985 B.A.(Honours) in political studies, University of Manitoba 1987 M.Phil. in international relations, University of Oxford
Selected publications Cold War Asia: A Visual History of Global Diplomacy (edited with Matthew Phillips, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023). Editor and author. Oxford Handbook on the Cultural History of Global Diplomacy, c.1750-2000 (Editor with Christian Goeschel, contracted, forthcoming 2024). Editor and author. The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia (edited with Sabine Dullin, Etienne Forestier-Peyrat, Yuexin Rachel Lin), (London: Routledge, 2022). Editor and co-author. Postcard Impressions from Early 20th Century Singapore: Perspective from the Japanese Community, co-authored with Regina Hong and Ling Xi Min (Singapore: National Library Board, 2020). Co-author. Imagining Japan in Postwar East Asia. Routledge, London, 2013. (Co-editor with Paul Morris and Edward Vickers) Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory, and the Russo-Japanese War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009. Nationalisms in Japan. Routledge, London, 2006. (editor) Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919. Routledge, London, 1998.
References
External links Naoko Shimazu on the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Guardian. Full text of doctoral thesis, "The racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference: Japanese motivations and anglo-american responses" via the Oxford Research Archive