Organization
Undergraduate School School of Political Science and Economics Senior Assistant Professor (non-tenured)
Title
Senior Assistant Professor (non-tenured)
External link
Degree
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Magister Artium (M.A.) ( 1992.7 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München )
Education
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Harvard University History and East Asian Languages
1994.9 - 2006.1
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The University of Tokyo Graduate School, Division of Law and Politics History of Japanese Political Thought
1997.4 - 1999.7
Country/Region： Japan
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
1990.11 - 1992.7
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University of Washington History
1989.9 - 1990.6
Country/Region： United States
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Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Neuere Geschichte (近代史)
1989.4 - 1989.7
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Neuere und Neueste Geschichte (近現代ヨーロッパ史）
1986.11 - 1989.3
Country/Region： Germany
Research History
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Meiji University School of Political Science and Economics Lecturer Senior Assistant Professor
2022.4
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Waseda University School of Political Science and Economics Lecturer
2020.4 - 2023.3
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Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies Lecturer
2020.4 - 2022.3
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Sophia University Faculty of Humanities Department of History Lecturer
2018.9 - 2019.3
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UC Berkeley Global Internships Course Instructor (Tokyo Program) Course Instructor
2018.6
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Aoyama Gakuin University School of Global Studies and Collaboration Lecturer
2018.4 - 2019.3
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Tokyo International University E-Track Program Lecturer
2017.9 - 2018.3
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Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences Lecturer
2017.4
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Rikkyo University Lecturer
2014.4
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Gakushuin University Faculty of Law Lecturer
2014.4 - 2023.3
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Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Lecturer
2014.4 - 2022.3
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Saitama University Lecturer
2014.4 - 2014.9
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Visiting Researcher
2012.10 - 2014.3
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The University of Tokyo Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia Associate Professor Associate Professor by Co-Appointment
2010.10 - 2012.9
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The University of Tokyo Division of International Affairs Associate Professor Project Associate Professor
2007.10 - 2012.9
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The University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science Associate Professor Associate Professor by Co-Appointment
2007.10 - 2011.3
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Hokkaido University Institute for Law and Politics Visiting Researcher
2007.4 - 2007.9
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Hokkaido University Faculty of Law Lecturer
2006.4 - 2007.3
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Harvard University Undergraduate Concentration in Social Studies Teaching Fellow
2004.9 - 2006.1
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Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Teaching Fellow
2000.2 - 2001.6
Professional Memberships
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Association for Asian Studies
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The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought
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European Association for Japanese Studies
Papers
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A Nation and a People? Notes Toward a Conceptual History of the Term <I>Minzoku</I> 民族 and <I>Kokumin</I> 国民 in Early Meiji Japan Invited
Burtscher, Michael
Journal of Political Science and Sociology 16 47 - 106 2012
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Facing 'the West' on Philosophical Grounds: A View from the Pavilion of Subjectivity on Meiji Japan Invited International journal
Burtscher, Michael
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2006 ( 3 ) 361 - 376 2006
Books
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(翻訳) Das Grosse Lexikon des Buddhismus Bai-E (individual entries)
2013
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(監訳) Education Reform and Social Class in Japan: The Emerging Incentive Divide
（ Role： Supervisor (editorial) , Original_author： Kariya Takehiko）
Routledge 2013
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(監訳) International Harmonization of Economic Regulation
Jonathan Block and Tara Cannon（ Role： Supervisor (editorial) , Original_author： Nakagawa Junji）
Oxford University Press 2011
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(監訳) Social Security in Contemporary Japan: A Comparative Analysis
（ Role： Supervisor (editorial) , Original_author： Osawa Mari）
Routledge 2011
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(監訳) Koizumi and Japanese Politics: Reform Strategies and Leadership Style
Carl Freire（ Role： Supervisor (editorial) , Original_author： Uchiyama Yū）
Routledge 2010
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(翻訳) Gender in the Meiji Renovation: Confucian 'Lessons for Women' and the Making of Modern Japan
（ Original_author： Sekiguchi Sumiko）
2008
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(翻訳) Das Grosse Lexikon des Buddhismus A-Bai (individual entries)
（ Role： Joint author）
2008
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(翻訳) Vorwort / Die Philosophie Nakae Chōmins
（ Original_author： Ueyama Shunpei）
iudicium 2000
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Afterword to the German Edition
（ Role： Sole author）
2000
MISC
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(Transl.) Japan’s Other National Museum: The Commodity Exhibition Hall and Japonisme as Industrial Policy
Ishii Motoaki
Japan and Japonisme: The Self and the Other in Representations of Japanese Culture, ed. Noriko Murai 155 - 177 2025.12
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(翻訳) Jesuit Printing and Hiragana Books
Monumenta Nipponica 77 ( 1 ) 27 - 75 2022
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(翻訳) The Water Mirror Motif in the Noh Play <I>Izutsu</I>: Continuation and Variation of a Classical Theme
Studies in Japanese Literature and Culture ( 5 ) 27 - 45 2022
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(翻訳) The Jesuit Japan Mission and its 1929 Visitation by Augustin Bea S.J.
Sophia Archives Booklet 2 3 - 59 2022
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(翻訳) Confucian Views of Life and Death International journal
The Tokugawa World, ed. Gary P. Leupp and De-min Tao 925 - 943 2021
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(翻訳) Emperor-Centrism and the Historiography of the Mito School International journal
The Tokugawa World, ed. Gary P. Leupp and De-min Tao 888 - 901 2021
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(翻訳) Edo Castle as a Consumer: Procuring Fish for the Shogun's Table
Monumenta Nipponica 76 ( 2 ) 291 - 328 2021
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(翻訳) Childbirth in Japan circa 1700: Gleanings from the Diary of Yamamoto Heizaemon
Monumenta Nipponica 75 ( 2 ) 281 - 315 2020
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(翻訳) John La Farge and the Quest for Nirvana: A Study of His <I>Meditation of Kuwannon</I>
ジャポニスム研究 ( 39 ) 2019
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(翻訳) Female Shrine Priests and Doctrinal Instructors in the Early Meiji Moral Edification Campaign
Monumenta Nipponica 73 ( 2 ) 213 - 244 2018
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(翻訳) The Autobiography of Maeda Masana
ジャポニスム研究 ( 38 ) 68 - 71 2018
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(翻訳) Shifting Perspectives on the Shogunate's Last Years: Gountei Sadahide's Bird's-Eye View Landscape Prints
Monumenta Nipponica 72 ( 1 ) 1 - 30 2016
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(翻訳) Confucian Morals and the Making of a 'Good Wife and Wise Mother': From 'Between Husband and Wife There Is Distinction' to 'As Husbands and Wives Be Harmonious'
Sumiko Sekiguchi
Social Science Japan Journal 13 ( 1 ) 95 - 113 2010
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(翻訳) Gender in the Meiji Renovation: Confucian 'Lessons for Women' and the Making of Modern Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 11 ( 2 ) 201 - 221 2008
Presentations
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Coming to Terms with Leviathan: Corporation and Society in Early Meiji Japan Invited
Michael Burtscher
University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science Japan History Group 2026.2
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“Society” and “Government” in Early Meiji Japan: Another Look at Nakamura Masanao’s Translation of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
Michael Burtscher
4h EAJS Japan Conference,Tohoku University 2025.9
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Kaisha (Corporation) and Shakai (Society) in Early Meiji Japan
17th International Conference of EAJS, Ghent, Belgium 2023.8
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The Post-Kantian Subject in Meiji Japan: Notes on a Keyword of Modern Philosophical and Political Thought
Translation and Modernization in East Asia 2013.5 Research Center for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Nation and Corporation: Body Politic, Civil Society, and the Subject of Sovereignty in Meiji Japan
CGCS East Asian Perspectives on Politics Workshop 2011.12 慶應義塾大学
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The Crux with Amaterasu's Mirror: Inoue Tetsujirō and the Sovereignty of Hegelian Reason in Imperial Japan International conference
13th International Conference of EAJS 2011.8 European Association of Japanese Studies
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Civil Society and State in Fukuzawa and Hegel
CGCS International Conference 2010.11 慶應義塾大学
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The Subject as Sovereign: Notes on the Terminological Conception of Modernity in Modern Japan
Annual Conference of the Cluster Asia and Europe in Global Context 2010.10 Universität Heidelberg, Exzellenzcluster "Asien und Europa im Globalen Kontext"
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The Spirit of <I>Naruhodo</I>: Kihira Tadayoshi and the Philosophy of the <I>Kokutai</I> International conference
Asian Studies Regional Conference Japan 2010.6
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Das Subjekt als Souverän: Entstehung und Lexikalisierung des Wortes <I>shutai</I> in der mittleren bis späten Meiji-Zeit
Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag 2009.9
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Conceptual Change in the Early Meiji Period: The Genesis of <I>Shinri</I> International conference
Asian Studies Regional Conference Japan 2009.6
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Coming to Terms with the Epistemological Turn: Translation and Conceptual Change in Early Meiji Japan
Workshop on Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories 2009.3 National University of Singapore
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Nakae Chōmin and Schopenhauer International conference
Asian Studies Regional Conference Japan 2008.6
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Imagining All the People: The Subject of Japanese History in Postwar Japanese Thought
Workshop on Conservative and Revisionist Historiography 2005.5 Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (in conjunction with Leiden University)
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Facing 'the West' on Philosophical Grounds: A View from the Pavilion of Subjectivity on Meiji Japan
Harvard Academy Workshop on Critiques of 'the West' in Turkey, Iran and Japan 2005.4 Harvard University
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