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[1] About Me

Last Name: WATANABE

First Name: MIKI

Home Country: Japan

Affiliation: The University of Tokyo, Komaba [Associate Professor]

I’m working on;

(1) Early-modern Ryukyu history, particularly [1] its diplomatic problems between China & Japan and [2] life history of Ryukyuan people

   *Ryukyu (Ryukyu Kingdom) = modern Okinawa prefecture

(2) Castaways between Ryukyu and other foreign countries

(3) Early-modern Satsuma history, particularly its diplomatic problems between Ryukyu & China

   *Satsuma = modern Kagoshima prefecture

(4) Early-modern relationship between Japan and China

(5) Early-modern map culture in East Asia, especially in Ryukyu, Japan & China

[2] My History

1999 (Mar.): BA of the University of Tokyo

2001(Mar.): MA of the University of Tokyo

    2001-2003: JSPS Research Fellow (DC)

    2002-2003: Research in Fuzhou (China)

    2004: RA of the Historiographical Institute the University of Tokyo

2005(Mar.): Completion of the doctoral course of the University of Tokyo

2005(Apr.): JSPS Research Fellow (PD) –2008(Mar.)

    2006 (Jan.-May): Research in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)

2008(Feb.) : Ph. D. of the University of Tokyo

2008(Apr.) : Research Fellow of The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology

2009(Apr.) : Assistant Professor of The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology

2010(Apr.) : Assistant Professor of The Kanagawa University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of Cross-Cultural Studies

2012(Apr.) : Associate Professor of The Kanagawa University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of Cross-Cultural Studies

2014(Apr.) : Associate Professor of The University of Tokyo, Komaba (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature and Culture)

[3] Leading Papers

(1)

“The Treatment for Drifters in Qing China and Ryukyu (1),”

Nanto Shigaku 54, 1999.

(2)

“The Treatment for Drifters in Qing China and Ryukyu (2),”

Nanto Shigaku 55, 2000.

(3)

“Ryukyu between Japan and Qing China: The Handling of Castaways’ Ship and Cargo in Early Modern Ryukyu,”

 Asia Bunka Kenkyu Betsatsu12, 2003.

(4)

“Review of Recent studies on the Relationship between Ryukyu and China,”

Studies in Chinese History (Chugoku Shigaku) 13, 2003.

[Abstract]

(5)

“The Ryukyu Kingdom Map in the Okinawa Prefecture Museum: Its Value as Historical Source and Relation to the Haedong chegukki,”

The Japanses Journal of diplomatics (Komonjyo Kenkyu) 60, 2005.

 *a joint work of Koichiro Fukase, Takashi Uezato and Miki Watanabe

[Abstract]

(6)

“Concealing Ryukyu-Japanese Relations from Qing China and the Problems of Castaways,”

The Journal of the Historical Society of Japan (Shigaku Zasshi) 114-11, 2005.

[Abstract]

(7)

“Early Modern Ryukyu between China and Japan: Repatriating Castaways from China, Korea, and “Unidentified Places”,”

The Journal of Historical Studies (Rekishigaku Kenkyu) 810, 2006.

[Abstract]

(8)

“The Repatriation of a Chinese Prisoner of War by Torihara Sôan: Tokugawa Ieyasu’s First Negotiations with Ming China, 1600,”

The Journal of Osaka Historical Association (Historia) 202,2006

[Abstract]

(9)

“A Study on the Maps Dedicated to the Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine by Takemori Dôetsu: Focusing on the World Map and the Nagasaki Map,”

The Journal of the Kyushu Society of Historical Research (Kyushu-Shigaku) 146,2006

[Abstract]

(10)

“Ryukyuan or Japanese ? : The “Ryukyuan” Image on the Southeastern seacoast of Ming China at the turn of the 16^th Century,”

The Journal of the Historical Society of Japan (Shigaku Zasshi) 116-10, 2007.

[Abstract]

(11)

“An International Maritime Trader, Torihara Soan: The Agent for Tokugawa Ieyasu’s First Negotiations with Ming China, 1600”

East Asian Maritime History, vol. 6: Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), The East Asian Mediterranean – Crossroads of Knowledge, Commerce, and Human Migration. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, Dec.31, 2008. Conference proceedings.

*You can buy here. <English>

(12)

“The Border of Japan” for Chinese Arrivals in Nagasaki, Satsuma and Ryukyu

Intercontinenta No. 26: Evert Groenendijk, Cynthia Viallé & Leonard Blissé (ed.), Canton and Nagasaki Compared 1730-1830. Universiteit Leiden, 2009. <English>

(13)

Invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom and Japanese and Ming Relations

The Journal of Oriental Researches (The Toyoshi-Kenkyu) 68-3, 2009.

[Abstract]

(14)

Marriage of the Local Officials in Early Modern Ryukyu: The Case of Yaeyama and Miyako Islands

Yamamoto Eishi (ed.) Local Administration and the Maritime World of Early modern East Asia. Kyuko-Shoin. 2010.

(15)

Castaways and Languages: Chinese and Japanese in the Context of Ryukyu-China Relations

The Journal of Historical Studies (Rekishigaku Kenkyu) 873, 2010.

[Abstract]

[4] Presentations (in English) on International Conferences

(1)

Tomari-mura as the Center for Foreign Drifters in the Early-Modern Ryūkyū

(The 4th International Conference on Okinawan Studies: Bonn Univ, Germany.: 2002/03/27)

(2)

A Japanese or A Ryukyuan? The misjudgments of Castaways in Ming China from the End of the 16th Century to the beginning of the 17th Century

(The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies: Hyatt Regency, Chicago, USA.: 2005/04/02)

(3)

Shifting Representations of Ryukyuans between Early Modern China and Japan

(The 5th International Conference on Okinawan Studies: Venice Univ, Italy.: 2006/09/15)

(4)

An International Maritime Trader, Torihara Sôan: The Agent for Tokugawa Ieyasu’s First Negotiations with Ming China, 1600

(The East Asian Mediterranean – Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce, and Human Migration: München Univ, Germany.: 2007/11/02-03)

(5)

“The Border of Japan” for Chinese Arrivals in Nagasaki, Satsuma and Ryukyu

(The International Conference 2007: Canton and Nagasaki Compared, 1730-1830: Zhongshan Univ, China.: 2007/12/02-07)