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Masashi Haneda

Director of Tokyo College, Project Professor at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo

Areas of expertise

  • - World/Global History

Major works

  • Asian Port Cities 1600-1800. Local and Foreign Cultural Interactions (editor). NUS Press & Kyoto University Press, 2009.
  • Toward Creation of a New World History. Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2018.
  • A Maritime History of East Asia (editor with OKA Mihoko). Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press, 2019.

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About me

PhD in Iranian Studies (Université de Paris III). He was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo for more than twenty years and was nominated as director of Tokyo College when this new institute was established in 2019. Having questions about the role of history in the contemporary world in mind, he has been working in the field of world/global history for more than ten years.