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Professor Nakano Ryoko
Faculty, Affiliation
Faculty of International Studies, Institute of Human and Social Sciences
Professor/ Faculty Chair of International Studies
College and School Educational Field
Division of International Studies, Graduate School of Human and Socio-Environmental Studies
Division of Human and Socio-Environment Studies, Graduate School of Human and Socio-Environmental Studies
School of International Studies, College of Human and Social Sciences
Course in Global Studies, School of International Studies, College of Human and Social Sciences
Laboratory
Academic Background
【Academic background(Doctoral/Master's Degree)】
Kobe University Master Graduate School of International Cooporation Studies Politics 2000 Completed
University of Wales, Aberystwyth Master Department of International Politics International Relations 2001 Completed
University of Oxford Doctor Department of Politics and International Relations International Relations 2005 Completed
【Academic background(Bachelor's Degree)】
Nanzan Junior College Department of English 1996
Nanzan University Department of British and American Studies 1998
【Degree】
Bachelor of Arts (Political Communication)
Masters of Arts (Politics)
Master of Economic and Social Studies (International Politics)
Doctor of Philosophy
Career
National University of Singapore Department of Japanese Studies Assistant Professor(2008/07/07-2016/03/31)
Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics Research Fellow (Part-time)(2010/04/01-)
Year & Month of Birth
Academic Society
The Japan Association of International Relations
British International Studies Association
International Studies Association
Japan Association of Global Governance
Award
Specialities
International Relations, International Relations in East Asia, Modern Political Thought in Japan,
Speciality Keywords
international order, identity, norm, cultural heritage, political thought, Japan, Asia
Research Themes
International political dynamics of cultural heritage making
UNESCO's heritage programmes such as World Heritage and the Memory of the World promotes the heritage of outstanding universal value or world significance. In this regard, the inscription of the Nanjing Massacre documents into the "Memory of the World" Register in 2015 reflects an increasingly globalized concern over human rights issues in the post–Cold War era. At the same time, however, this decision has generated new controversy, because Japan (the perpetrator of the Nanjing Massacre) has expressed grave concerns over the inscription. This project will examine the origin, development and challenges of UNESCO's heritage programmes.
Books
- Nakano, Ryoko Axel Berkofsky and Giulia Sciorati, eds. Moving Targets: Trends in Japan’s Foreign and Security Policies Ledizioni LediPublishing 2024
- Oga Toru, Nakano Ryoko, Matsumoto Saho Reconstruction of Inclusive Society, Vol III: Competition and Convergence of International Norms Horitsu Bunka sha 2020
- Jochen Prantl and Ryoko Nakano Children and the Responsibility to Protect Brill/Nijhoff 2019/06/03
- Kevin Blackburn, Ryoko Nakano Exhibiting the Fall: Remembering and Representing the War and its Aftermath in Asia National Museum of Singapore 2018/03/19
- Nakano, Ryoko Felix Roesch and Atsuko Watanabe, eds. Japanese Political Thought and International Relations Rowman and Littlefield 2018/09
- Masaki Kawashima, ed. _Towards a Common Memory: 70th Anniversary of the World War II's End 2015
- Pham Quang Minh, ed. Nhật Bản trong thời đại châu Á [Vietnamese: Japan in the Age of Asia] Thegioi Publishers 2014
- Ryoko Nakano _Beyond the Western Liberal Order: Yanaihara Tadao and Empire as Society_ Palgrave Macmillan 2013
- Jochen Prantl, ed. _Effective Multilateralism: Through the Looking Glass of East Asia_ Palgrave 2013
- Amanda Russell Beattie & Kate Schick, eds., _The Vulnerable Subject: Beyond Rationalism in International Relations_ Palgrave 2013
- Robbie Shilliam, ed. _International Relations and Non-Western Thoughts: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity_ Routledge 2010
- Andrew J Waskey, Fred R. Nadis, eds. _World History Encyclopaedia, Era 9: Promises and Paradoxes, 1945-Present_ ABC-CLIO 2010
- James H. Overfield, ed. _World History Encyclopaedia, Era 7: The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914_ ABC-CLIO 2010
Papers
- Reshaping the Cultural Heritage Regime: How Japan and China Engage in UNESCO's Heritage Programs Nakano, Ryoko Japan Review 6 2 19-28 2024/03
- A Geocultural Power Competition in UNESCO’s Silk Roads Project: China’s Initiatives and the Responses From Japan and South Korea Nakano, Ryoko Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 52 2 185-206 2023
- Japan and the Liberal International Order: Rules-based, Multilateral, Inclusive, and Localized Ryoko Nakano International Affairs 99 4 1421–1438 2023/07
- Mobilizing Meiji Nostalgia and Intentional Forgetting in Japan's World Heritage Promotion Ryoko Nakano International Journal of Asian Studies 18 1 27-44 2021
- Introduction: mobilizing nostalgia in Asia Ryoko Nakano International Journal of Asian Studies 18 1 1-5 2021
- Heritage as soft power: Japan and China in international politics Ryoko Nakano, Yujie Zhu International Journal of Cultural Policy 26 7 869-881 2020
- Hierarchy embedded in the international states system Ryoko Nakano Society and Ethics 35 213-223 2020
- Japan's demands for reforms of UNESCO's memory of the world: the search for mnemonical security Ryoko Nakano Cambridge Review of International Affairs 34 4 590-607 2020/07/02
- The Unintended Consequences of UNESCO's Documentary Heritage Program: Shaming without Naming Ryoko Nakano ASR: Chiang Mai University Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 5 2 99-113 2019 ?
- Heritage Soft Power in East Asia's Memory Contests: Promoting and Objecting to Dissonant Heritage in UNESCO Ryoko Nakano Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia 17 1 50-67 2018/07/31 ?
- Normative feedback loops in UNESCO's heritage programmes Ryoko Nakano Kanazawa-Hogaku 60 2 109－122頁 2018
- A Failure of Global Documentary Heritage? UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' and Heritage Dissonance in East Asia Ryoko Nakano Contemporary Politics 24 4 481-496 2018
- The Wilsonian Moment in Yanaihara Tadao’s Political Thought Ryoko Nakano Japanese Journal of Political Science 19 4 600-611 2018
- The Politics of Norm Glocalisation: Limits in Applying R2P to Protecting Children Jochen Prantl, Ryoko Nakano GR2P 10 1-2 97-120 2018/03/26
- "Sino-Japanese Territorial Dispute and the Perception of Threat and Power Transition" The Pacific Review 29 2 165-186 2016
- "Nostalgic Asianism in Postwar Japan: The TV Drama Kaiketsu Harimau" Ryoko Nakano Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 14 1 2014
- "Global Norm Diffusion in East Asia: How China and Japan Implement the Responsibility to Protect" Jochen Prantl, Ryoko Nakano International Relations 25 2 204-223 2011
- "The Systemization of Global Norm Construction: Responsibility to Protect in East Asia" Ryoko Nakano _Society and Ethics_ 25 223-239 2011
- "The Responsibility to Protect as a Global Norm: Perspectives from Japan and China" Ryoko Nakano _Society and Ethics_ 22 98-109 2008
- "'Pre-History' of International Relations in Japan: Yanaihara Tadao’s Dual Perspective of Empire" Ryoko Nakano Millennium: Journal of International Studies 35 2 301-319 2007
- "Uncovering Shokumin: Yanaihara Tadao’s Concept of Global Civil Society" Ryoko Nakano Social Science Japan Journal 9 2 187-202 2006
- "Ikenberry, American Empire, and US-Japan Relationship" Ryoko Nakano Nanzan Review of American Studies 2005 65-74 2006
- Ethics and Norms in International Relations: A Christian Social Scientist, Yanaihara Tadao Ryoko Nakano _Society and Ethics_ 20 127-138 2006
- "Yanahara Tadao and International Cooperatism" Ryoko Nakano _Peace Studies Seminar Journal_ 3 89-102 2000
- "Yanaihara Tadao and the Pursuit of International Peace" Ryoko Nakano _Rokkodai Review: The Studies of International Cooperation_ 1 1－14 2000
Conference Presentations
- Making a reading drama based on the testimonies of Noto Peninsula Earthquake's victims(conference：Disaster experiences and reconstruction: Focusing on bodies )(2025/03/20)
- Japan and UNESCO: How status matters in state's policymaking(conference：Taiwanese Association of Japanese Studies)(2024/10/18)
- Heritage Conflicts and Competition in East Asia(conference：Heritage Futures: Asia Series)(2023/10/17)
- A Geocultural Power Competition in UNESCO's Silk Roads Project(conference： EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations)(2023/09)
- What Does Japan Want in the International Order?(conference：What Do Asian Countries Want in the International Order?)(2023/08/30)
- Free and Open Indo-Pacific as Japan’s Conservative Resilience Strategy(conference：International Studies Association (ISA) Asia-Pacific Conference)(2023/08)
- Commemoration of the past for the future: Discussion points(conference：Memories and Interpretation of Wartime Heritage)(2023/06/15)
- Japanese perspectives of international order(conference：Special Seminar at the University of Regensburg)(2022/12/07)
- Cultural heritage conflicts in East Asia(conference：Special Seminar at the University of Regensburg)(2022/12/06)
- Emerging states and heritage as soft power: Why Japan, China, and South Korea promote their contentious cultural heritage(conference：History Research Seminar at Aberystwyth University)(2022/11/23)
- Strategies of influence: How Japan shapes an international vision of the world and itself (conference：Strategies of Influence: A Comparative Approach)(2022/11/21)
- Meiji Nostalgia in Japan's Heritage Diplomacy(conference：Nostalgia and fantasy in the making of heritage in Asia)(2022/08/05)
- Japanese conceptions of international order(conference：Asian conceptions and practices of international order)(2022/07/15)
- National nostalgia and heritage diplomacy(conference：Countering revisionism: engaging new generations in memory, truth and justice around World War II heritage)(2022/07/08)
- Memory politics and threat perception(conference：Towards threat literacy)(2021/07/02)
- The Silk Roads as global memory infrastructures: Japan and South Korea's views on China's initiatives(conference：Infrastructure of Memory: Heritages and Diversity in Modern China)(2021/05/27)
- Japanese Heritage Diplomacy(conference：Japan-Poland Academic Exchange Kick-Off Symposium)(2021/02/10)
- Yanaihara Tadao: Developing colonial studies in imperial Japan(conference：Diverse Modernity: Presentations on Urbanization, Colonialism, and Culture in Prewar Japan)(2021/01/23)
- Politics of Nostalgia and Intentional Forgetting in Japan's Industrial Heritage(conference：Association of Critical Heritage Studies 5th Biennial Conference)(2020/08/28)
- Japanese Imperialism(conference：Rethinking History: Singapore and Global History)(2019/11/04)
- Heritage as a 'Thing' in International Politics: Memory Politics and Ontological Insecurity in East Asia(conference：International Conference on the Politics of War-related Heritage in Contemporary Asia)(2019/09/05)
- Ontological Insecurity and Japan's Struggle with the Internationalization of Memory and Heritage(conference：Asia Association for Global Studies Conference)(2019/03/22)
- Ontological Insecurity in East Asia's Heritage Wars(conference：12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations)(2018/09/12)
- The Impact of WWII Heritage on Japan’s Ontological Security(conference：Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference in Hangzhou)(2018/09/01)
- Heritage diplomacy and politics as a broad subject of security studies: the case of East Asia's controversy over UNESCO's world heritagization(conference：Japan Association for International Security, 11th research seminar)(2018/07/14)
- East Asia’s Heritage Wars in UNESCO (conference：British International Studies Association (BISA) International Annual Conference)(2018/06/15)
- East Asia's memory contests in UNESCO heritage programmes(conference：International Conference on Multicultural Democracy)(2018/05/10)
- Failure of Cosmopolitan History? Japan’s Response to the Inscription of Nanjing Massacre Documents on the UNESCO’s Memory of the World in 2015 (conference：5th Global International Studies Conference)(2017/04/02)
- Memory of the Japanese Occupation and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia(conference：Exhibiting the Fall: Remembering and Representing War and its Aftermath in Asia)(2017/09/04)
- "The Wilsonian Moment in Yanaihara Tadao"(conference：Wilsonian Moment in Japan)(2017/03/09)
- "Yanaihara Tadao's Liberal Internationalism and Colonial Economic Development"(conference：The 60th Anievrsary Convention of Japan Association of International Relations)(2016/10/14)
- "Rethinking the liberal/pluralist vision of Japan’s colonial studies scholars"(conference：Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations)(2016/07/30)
Others
- Book review Tano Daisuke & Onodera Takuya eds. Questioning the Banality of Evil, Okawa Shoten 2023 Nakano, Ryoko Society and Ethics 39 157-158 2025/02
- Cultural Heritage in East Asia’s Politics and International Relations Nakano, Ryoko ARI Scope 2024/01
- Roundtable of Duncan Bell's Dreamworlds of Race Ginnakopoulos, Kung, Nakano, and Suchak H-Diplo XXIV 4 21 2022/09
- Geocultural Power: China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century, by Tim Winter Ryoko Nakano Asian Studies Review 44 4 730-732 2020/04/30
- The UNESCO memory of the world programme: key aspects and recent developments Ryoko Nakano International Journal of Heritage Studies 26 7 717-718 2019/03/26
- Dealing with anxiety in the globalized era: some reflections on the joint workshop Ryoko Nakano The Faculty of Law, Institute of Human and Social Sciences, University of Kanazawa 63 1 165-173 2020/08
- Anxiety and hope in the globalized era: In the search for the ethical foundation of resilience Ryoko Nakano Sharinken Newsletter 13 18-19 2020/09
- Kei Koga, Reinventing Regional Security Institutions in Asia and Africa: Power Shifts, Ideas, and Institutional Change. Routledge, 2017. Ryoko Nakano Journal of International Security 46 33 162-166 2018/12
- The Documents of Nanjing Massacre, Opening up UNESCO as a New Arena for History (Heritage) Wars Ryoko Nakano Asia Dialogue 2018/07/11
- East Asia's Memory Contests in UNESCO's Heritage Programmes Ryoko Nakano International Conference on Multicultural Democracy: Proceedings 2018/05/10
Arts and Fieldwork
Patent
Theme to the desired joint research
○International politics and norms/perceptions/emotions, challenges to the liberal international order, international politics over heritage
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
○Kiban C「Geopolitics of Cultural Heritage: Revisiting Cultural Diplomacy in a Changing International Order」(2025-2028)
○Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)「Challenges for international cultural organizations: UNESCO heritage programmes from an East Asian perspective」(2017-2019)
○Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)「Japan's cultural policy and diplomacy towards UNESCO: the intersection of international politics and cultural heritage」(2020-2023)
Competitive research funding,Contribution
Collaborative research,Consignment study
○Toward Coexistence and Multicultural Democracy(2016-2019)
Classes (Bachelors)
○Japanese Culture E(2024)
○Pre-academic seminar 1b(2024)
○Pre-academic seminar 1a(2024)
○International Relations(2024)
○International Relations(2024)
○Japanese Culture E(2024)
○Global Cooperation(2024)
○International Relations E(2023)
○Pre-academic seminar 1b(2023)
○Pre-academic seminar 1a(2023)
○International Organizations E(2023)
○International Relations(2023)
○Japanese Culture E(2022)
○International Relations E(2022)
○International Relations(2022)
○International Relations E(2021)
○Introduction to International Studies E(2021)
○International Relations 2(2021)
○Practicum in Different Cultures I(2021)
○Japanese Culture E(2021)
○International Relations 1(2021)
○International Relations(2020)
○Political Economy in the Global Era(2020)
○Introduction to International Studies E(2020)
○International Relations E(2020)
○International Relations(2020)
○International Organizations(2020)
Classes (Graduate Schools)
○International Relations IIIa(2020)
○International Relations IIIb(2020)
○Lecture on International Relations Ib(2020)
○Lecture on International Relations Ia(2020)