Takahiro Yamamoto
Assistant Professor
Cultural Economic History
Heidelberg University
Germany
Biography
Takahiro Yamamoto studies history of nineteenth-century Japan, focusing on its cross-border connections. His research interests include modern Japanese history, border history, and history of travel documents. His current research project investigates the development of Japan’s passport system in the late-nineteenth century. Prior to coming to Heidelberg, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (2016-17), affiliated with Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He has also served as a Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai.
Research Interest
Plitical science and economics
Publications
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2016 ‘The end of the ‘dual possession’ of Sakhalin as multilateral diplomacy, 1867−73’. Historical Research 89, no.244, pp.340−362.
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2017 ‘Japan’s passport system and the opening of borders, 1866−1878’. Firstview in Historical Journal. DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X16000522
