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last modified：2025/03/18

Professor　Nakano Ryoko

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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

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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

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  • 　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　

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  • 　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

  • 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)

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  • 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 tbe University of Regensburg)(2022/12/07)
  • Cultural heritage conflicts in East Asia(conference：Special Seminar at tbe 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　

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  • 　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

○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)

○International Relations E(2021)
○International Relations 2(2021)
○Japanese Culture E(2021)
○International Relations 1(2021)
○Introduction to International Studies E(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)

International Project

International Students

Lecture themes

Others (Social Activities)

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