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Josai University Educational Corporation established Josai Institute for Central European Studies located at Tokyo Kioicho Campus as one of our academic centers, which promotes Central European Studies as an institution of higher education and research, strives to advance academic exchanges and joint research studies between Central Europe and Japan, and develops global human resources which broadly support the international relationship between Central European Countries and Japan. JICES has become a part of o Josai International University since 2019.

Research Staff

BERTALANIC, Bostjan

Associate Professor, Josai University, Faculty of Contemporary Policy Studies
Specialization: International relations and diplomatic history of Japan, European integration and political science methodology
Recent Publication:
Recent Publication: ‘Lt. Col. Yanagawa Heisuke and the Demarcation of Prekmurje: A Japanese Account of the Yugoslav-Hungarian Border Commission’s Activities in 1921-1922’ in The 20th Century through Historiographies and Textbooks : Chapters from Japan, East Asia, Slovenia and Southeast Europe, edited by Žarko Lazarević, Nobuhiro Shiba, Kenta Suzuki, Ljubljana: INZ, 2018, pp.191–202; 2018b.
‘Opportunities and Challenges for V4 plus Japan Relations in the Post-Brexit EU’ The Electronic Journal of Central European Studies in Japan, No.4, 2018; ‘Teaching International Relations in Japan : How to Introduce the Yugoslav Civil War in a Culturally Diverse Classroom’　『城西現代政策研究』 11 (1), 2018, pp 107–14. https://doi.org/info:doi/10.20566/18819001_11(1)_17; 2019.
“Slovenia’s Anti-Harassment Policies in the EU Context” 『城西現代政策研究』 12 (1), 2019, pp. 27–32.

HORVAT, Andrew　（Vice Director of JICES）

Visiting Professor, Josai International University
Specialization: Public policy programs on immigration, minority issues, the role of historical reconciliation in regional integration in Europe and Asia
Recent Publication:
Sharing the Burdens of the Past: Legaices of War in Europe, America and Asia (co-editor), (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Asia Foundation, Tokyo, 2003). Chapters to edited volumes on European and Asian attempts at dealing with the legacies of colonialism and war.
‘Japan's News Media––how and why reporters and news organizations influence public policy.’. Kotler, M. ed.,The Ideas Industry: Comparative Perspectives Washington DC: The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University.2016 pp. 95–133.
‘Japan’s Activist News Media – how and why reporters and news organizations became a positive force in confronting a negative past’, Burrett, Kingston eds., Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia, Routledge 2019

IIO, Tadaki

Associate Professor, Tokai University, Department of European and American Studies, Undergraduate School of Cultural and Social Stuidies
Specialization: Hungarian History (early modern) , Area Studies (Central Europe)
Recent Publications: Religion and Society in Early Modern Rural Hungary (Hokkaido U.P., 2008) (in Japanese)

INOUE, Naoko

Associate Professor, Josai University, Faculty of Economics
Specialization: Textile history of Europe, industrial policy of the Austrian Littoral and digital archiving of Meisen kimono.
Recent Publications:
'Spun Silk to Artificial Silk: the 19th and 20th Centuries Demi-luxe’, Annals of Josai Graduate School of Economics, No.32, 2019
‘Silk Waste, Spun Silk, and Meisen kimono: Technological Transfer and Emergence of New Industry in Japan From the late 19th Century to the 1930s’ in Miki Sugiura (ed.), Linking Cloth/Clothing Globally: The Transformations of Use and Value, C. 1700-2000, Hosei University Publishing, Tokyo, 2019.

KIRALY, Attila

Associate Professor, Josai International University, Faculty of International Humanities
Specialization: Japanese-Hungarian relations, Religious studies, Development of Language materials
Recent Publications:
‘A Debate on Buddhism in Hungary at the Turn of the 20th Century: Christian theologians and intellectuals versus pro- and crypto-Buddhist public intellectuals', The Electronic Journal of Central European Studies in Japan, no. 6. (September, 2021)
『ハンガリー語へジャンプ·ハンガリー語教科書 I-II.』 Jump into the Hungarian. Hungarian textbook I-II. Center for Language Education, JIU（学内出版物）、2020年
‘1956 on Photographs: - The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, its Visual Heritage and the Iconographic Classification of its Photographs‘ The Electronic Journal of Central European Studies in Japan、 no. 5. (May, 2020)
『ハンガリー語学習者の辞書　Magyar tanulószótár』(Dictionary for Hungarian language learners), 城西国際大学, 2019年
‘Some Additional Remarks on the History of Hungarian Buddhism and the Influence of Buddhism in Hungary at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries: Explorers, Collectors, and First Accounts on Japanese Buddhism and the Buddhist Connection to Japonisme in Hungary’, The Electronic Journal of Central European Studies in Japan, no. 4. (December, 2018)
『ハンガリー語·日本語の辞書』(Hungarian-Japanese dictionary) Center for Language Education, JIU （学内出版物、第二版）、2018年
『日本語·ハンガリー語小辞典』(Japanese-Hungarian Small dictionary) Center for Language Education, JIU（学内出版物、第二版）,2018年
‘History of Hungarian Buddhism and the influences of Buddhism in Hungary until the 1920's’, The Electronic Journal of Central European Studies in Japan no. 3. (October, 2017)
‘A tokiói Jaszukuni-szentély és területe (The Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo and its district)’ in Antroport könyvek 6. A nemzettudat tárgyiasulásai /Háttértanulmányok a magyarság és az etnicitás kutatásához/, edited by András A. Gergely and Richárd Papp, Budapest: MAKAT, 2015, 150-178.
‘Sintó szentélyek a csibai partvidéken (Shinto shrines on the maritime coast of Chiba)’ in Antroport könyvek 2. „...áttekinthetetlen szövedék gyönyörű geometriája...” Féner Tamás 75. születésnapjára, edited by András A. Gergely, Budapest: MAKAT, 2014. 92-109.

Matusiak, Sylwia

Assistant Professor, Josai University, Faculty of Economics
Specialization: International relations, especially economic relations between Visegrad Group countries and Japan
Recent Publication:
Cooperation between Japan and Visegrad Group Countries on Subnational Lele: The case study of Kanto Prefectures, Josai University Bulletin, The Department of Economics, Vol. 38, 2019, pp. 77-89.

SHIBA, Nobuhiro (Director of JICES)

Professor, Josai International University, Graduate School of International Administration
Specialization: Area Studies (Eastern Europe), Modern History of the Balkans
Recent Publications in Japanese:
Illustrated History of the Balkans , Kawadeshobo-shinsha, Tokyo, 2001( the 4th new edition in 2019)
Contemporary History of Yugoslavia, Iwanami-shoten, Tokyo, 1996 (the 20th edition in 2019)
Nationalism in the Balkans , Yamakawa-shuppansha, Tokyo, 1996 (the 14th edition in 2019)
In English:
co-edition;
The 20th Century through Historiographies and Textbooks: Chapters from Japan, East Asia, Slovenia and Southeast Europe, Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, Ljubljana, 2018
School History and Textbooks: A Comparative Analysis of History Textbooks in Japan and Slovenia, Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, Ljubljana, 2013
articles in English:
‘National Identity of a “Borderland Man”: the case of Dušan Todorović, Russian Language Professor in Tokyo – from early days until end of World War I’, Electronic Journal of Central European Studies in Japan, No.4, December, 2018
‘On Launching the Electronic Journal of Central European Studies in Japan: Our Definition of Central Europe’, Electronic Journal of Central European Studies in Japan, No.1, December, 2015
‘Attempts to Write Regional History: In Search of Reconciliation in East Asia and the Balkans’, Nobuhiro Shiba et.al.(eds.), School History and Textbooks: A Comparative Analysis of History textbooks in Japan and Slovenia, Ljubljana, 2013.

SHIBA, Riko

Professor, Josai International University, Faculty of International Humanities
Specialization: History of Poland, History of Polish-Japanese Relations, Area Studies(Central Europe)
Recent Publications in English:
‘Images of the Balkans in the Japanese Media of the Meiji Period’, Godisnjak za drustvenu istoriju, XVIII, sv. 3, 2011 (Belgrade, 2012)
‘Between Japan and Russia: The Balkans in Meiji-Japan's Newspapers’ in School History and Textbooks: A Comparative Analysis of History Textbooks in Japan and Slovenia, Ljubljana, 2013
‘Katerina Todorović (1877-1974): a Central European Pianist and the Japanese reception of Western Music in the Early 20th Century’ in The 20th Century through Historiographies and Textbooks, Ljubljana, 2018.