My postgraduate teaching divides into two types: 大学院における指導は2通りあります：
1) Taught courses (seminars) for MA students: 修士課程の学生に向けた講義（セミナー）
Spring 2024: The History Issue and Historical Consciousness
Autumn 2024: Contents Tourism
2) Thesis supervision for PhD and MA students. People who want to apply to TUFS to write their thesis under my supervision should consult the “Prospective Students” page. 博士課程および修士課程の学生の論文指導。TUFSにおいて、私の指導下で論文を書きたい方は、“入学希望者”ページを参照してください。
Current Postgraduate Students (April 2025) 現在の大学院生（令和7年4月現在）
PhD Students（博士課程）: 4
2025~ : Music and the creation of regional image: a contents tourism perspective
2024~ : Sympathy Beyond Borders: Mediated Memory of War Orphans in Chinese and Japanese Film
2023 ~ : Kōsaka Masataka, Nagai Yōnosuke, and the Diverging Paths of Japanese Realism: The Postwar Intellectual in the Age of the Security State
2023 ~ : Fan Visitations to Shintō Spaces Motivated by Pop cultural Narratives
Master’s Students（修士課程）: 7
M1 2025~ : Sustainable Development in the Management of Religious and Spiritual Tourism Destinations: Case Study of Mount Koya and Kumano Sanzan, Wakayama
M1 2025~ : Assessing the challenge and opportunities of virtual reality events for sustainable event tourism practice: the case of Tokyo Game Show
M1 2025~ : Tourism and regional revitalisation using anime contents: the cases of Hokei town, Sakaiminato city and Kami city
M2 2024 (HIPS*)~ : McHistory: Teaching American High School Students Soft Power and International Twentieth Century Histories Through American Chain Restaurant Location Case Studies
M2 2024 ~ : イギリス児童文学作品を下敷きにしたスタジオジブリ映画に関連する(コンテンツ)ツーリズム
MA 2023 ~ : 教科書による歴史認識の形成:育鵬社教科書使用による影響
M4 2022 ~ : 戦後日本における「混血児」とその表象：メディア分析を中心に
* “HIPS” refers to students supervised as part of the MA double degree programme History in the Public Sphere (I am the TUFS side supervisor). All others are in the Japan Studies Course.
Research Students (研究生): 0
Former Postgraduate Students (TUFS) 大学院修了者（東京外国語大学）
PhD 博士後期課程: 1
2023: Himawan Pratama: Identity Discourse and Representations of Foreigners in Japanese Sports-themed Popular Culture of the Heisei Era. See also Himawan Pratama and Antonius R. Pujo Purnomo, “Japanese Studies in Indonesia”, in Akihiro Ogawa and Philip Seaton (eds), New Frontiers in Japanese Studies, (Routledge, 2020), chapter 5. “Representations of Foreigners and Japanese National Identity at the 1964 Olympics in Idaten“, International Review of Humanities Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, January 2021.
MA 博士前期課程: 14
2025/3: 第二次世界大戦中のユダヤ難民の表象に関する現代中国と日本 の比較研究
2025/3: 刀剣乱舞 ONLINE を事例としたコンテンツツーリズム ―博物館等文化施設におけるコラボレーション企画を中心に―
2024/9 (HIPS*): Interpreting Multiperspectivity: The Use of Parallel Story-telling in Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre
2024/9 (HIPS*): Becoming the City of Prayers: Christianity and the Formation of Local Public History in 20th Century Nagasaki
2024/9 (HIPS*): Marketing “Ethnic Harmony” – Ainu tourism, the National Ainu Museum, and Japan’s Imperial Legacy
2024/9 (HIPS*): Teaching Empire & Imperial Teachings: A Proposal for Conceptualizing Imperialism in Moroccan History Curricula
2024/3: Between Heaven and the People: The Conceptual History of Kōron
2024/3: 日本のポップ・ミュージックの世界伝播に関する、特に日本語の歌詞に着目した研究
2023/9 (HIPS*): Remembering Filipino Heroes on the Day of Valor: A Thematic Analysis of Media Narratives
2023/3: Pop Culture and Heritage Tourism Development: The Case Study of the Shinsengumi
2023/3 (HIPS*): Monumentalizing Memories, Memorializing Monuments: Rizal Park and American Colonial Philippines, 1898-1946
2022/9 (HIPS*): There and Back Again: The Public Medievalism of Japanese and American Console Video Games During the 1980s
2022/3: 他者との娯楽的接触が拓く交流の可能性 ―『ゴールデンカムイ』の事例分析から―
2022/3: 東アジア華人圏におけるオタク現象に関する研究―中国・台湾におけるオタク文化の生成を中心に
* “HIPS” refers to students supervised as part of the MA dual degree programme History in the Public Sphere (I am the TUFS side supervisor). All others are in the Japan Studies Course.
Postgraduate Supervision at Hokkaido University 北海道大学における大学院生の指導
At Hokkaido University, I taught in the Graduate School of Education from April 2007 to March 2018. I supervised nine postgraduate students (one PhD, eight master’s students) to successful completion of their degrees. In academic year 2018, following my move to Tokyo, I continued to supervise two PhD students who had not yet graduated. One finished in March 2019, and the other in March 2020.
北海道大学では、2007年4月から2018年3月まで、教育学院で教鞭をとっていました。大学院生9名（博士課程1名、修士課程8名）を学位取得に至るまで指導しました。また、私が東京に移ってから迎えた2018年度には、まだ卒業していなかった博士課程の学生2名の指導を継続しました。そのうち1名は2019年3月に修了し、1名は２０２０年３月に修了しました。
Completed PhD Theses (graduation year)
2020: Karli Shimizu: Shinto Shrines in the Japanese Sphere: Center, Periphery, and Beyond, 1868-1945. See also “Religion and Secularism in Overseas Shinto Shrines: A Case Study on Hilo Daijingu, 1898-1941” in Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 46:1. 2019; and “Shintō Shrines and Secularism in Modern Japan, 1890–1945: A Case Study on Kashihara Jingū” in Journal of Japanese Religion 6:2. 2017.
2019: Georgy Buntilov: Imagining Japan in Moscow and Sakhalin, and Imagining Russia in Tokyo and Hokkaido: Contrasting identities and images of Other in the center and periphery. See also “The Kuril Islands/Northern Territories Dispute: a comparison of local news reportage in Sakhalin and Hokkaido” published by electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies; and “Common Narratives in Discourses on National Identity in Russia and Japan” in Asian Philosophy Vol. 26(1).
2018: Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny: Subcultures of war: Images of the Asia-Pacific War in Japanese youth and fan culture. Thesis available here. See also “Kando Conservatism – Moving Narratives in Japanese online fan videos” published by Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
Completed MA Theses (graduation year)
2018: Historical consciousness and history textbooks in China and Japan
2018: Gender and history in the Bakumatsu period
2016: Shinto and the identity of Japanese Immigrants in Hokkaido and Hawaii
2015: The Yasukuni Issue in the Japanese and Chinese press
2014: History textbooks and history education in Japan
2012: Representations of China in the Japanese media
2010: War memories in Hokkaido and Okinawa
2009: International Education and Volunteer Work in Japanese High Schools