(as of July, 2008) – in English
Former Careers:
 Member & Chairman of 1st Division (Humanities), Science Council of Japan;
 Chair, Expert Panel of the Study Forum on Islam, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign
Affairs;
 President, Asian Federation of the Associations for Middle East Studies
(AFMA); Chair, Japan National Committee of CISH (International Committee of Historical Sciences);
 President, Association of Islamic Studies in Japan, etc.
Research and Teaching Activities at:
 The University of Tokyo, Institute of Oriental Culture and College of
Arts-and-Sciences;
 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for the Study of Languages and
Cultures of Asia and Africa;
 National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka;
 Tokyo Keizai University, Department of Communication Studies;
 Ain Shams University, Middle East Research Center, Cairo, Egypt;
 And many other institutions, covering the fields related to International
Relations, Comparative Politics, Global Area Studies, and Islamic Thought and
Movements.
Specialty:
 History;
 Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies;
 Civilizational Strategy Studies.
Personal Information:
Age: 77. Married; having two daughters and three grand-daughters.
Publications (some selected):
 Civilizations to be Networked: Feasibility and Effects of Re-vitalizing Tawhid
(Pluralistic Universalism), The 34 th International Symposium on Transformation of
Civilizations in the Era of Globalization, The National Academy of Sciences,
Republic of Korea, 2007.
 (ed.) GAKUSAI (The Interdisciplinary) No. 19 [Special Issue: The World after 9 / 11],
Dec. 2006.

 Predicament of Being Human in the Age of ‘War on Terrorism’, The Japanese
Bulletin of Social Psychiatry, No.14 (2006) Supplement [Keynote Lectures on the
occasion of World Conference WASP at Kobe in September, 2004], Tokyo: Japanese
Association of Social Psychiatry, 2006.
 Dynamics of Egypt-Japan Collaboration for Enhancing Potentiality of the
Respective Multi-layered Civilizations, in Takeshi Kimura (ed.), Proceedings of the International Cairo Conference on “Cultural Values and Sustainability for the
Future,” Dec. 2005, Tokyo: The Millennial Sustainability Studies Project, Japan
Society for the Promotion of Sciences, 2006.
 ‘Han-Tero Senso’ Jidai no tadanakade Nichiro Senso wo Kangaeru to iu koto
(To Think about Russo-Japanese War 1904-05 amidst the present ‘War on
Terror’), in Hiroshi Yasuda & Cho Gyong Dal (eds.), Senso no Jidai to Shakai:
Nichiro Senso to Gendai (The War Era and Society: The Russo-Japanese War and
Now), Tokyo: Aoki Shoten, 2005.
 Nihon no Sentaku (Washing Japan) ［ Co-authored by Kiyoshi Kurokawa &
Takashi Inoguchi ］ , Tokyo: Nishimura Shoten, 2005.
 Tawhîd and Human Dignity, in The Third Seminar, Dialogue Among Civilizations:
The Islamic World and Japan, Tehran- Nov. 2004, Tehran [Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran].
 Iraku Senso to 21 Seiki no Sekai Chitsujo (Iraq War and the 21 st Century World
Order), in Osamu Fujiwara & Mitsuo Okamoto (eds.), Ima Heiwa toha Nani ka
(What should Peace be?) [Gurobaru Jidai no Heiwagaku (Peace Studies in the
Age of Globalization) Vol. 1], Kyoto: Horitsu-bunka-sha, 2004.
 Isuraamu Gonin (Misconception of Islam), Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2003.
 Tai-Tero Senso to Isuramu Sekai (‘War on Terrorism’ and the Muslim World),
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2002.
 Al-hiwâr bayna-l-hadârât: wijha an-nazar yabânîya li-l-istirâtîjîya al-hadârîya
(Dialogue among Civilizations: A Japanese Outlook from Civilizational
Strategy), in Tûnis-Al-yâbân: hiwâr thaqâfî (Tunisia-Japan: Cultural Dialogue),
Qartaj: Bayt al-Hikma, 2001.
 Korea and the Middle East from a Japanese View-point, in The Middle East &
African Studies Special Issue on “Korea and Middle East & Africa in the Changing
World Order”, Seoul; Korean Institute of the Middle East & Africa, 1993.
 Rekishi no Genzai to Chiikigaku (Area Studies in the Actualities of History),
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1992.
 Ishi no Sabebi ni Mimi wo Sumasu (Listening to the Cry of Stones, A Search for

Peace in the Middle East), Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1992.
 Chuuto Paasupekutibu (Middle East in Perspective), Tokyo: Daisan Shokan, 1991.
 Perspective on the Middle East in the 1990’s, in Problems of Maintaining Peace
and Security in the Gulf and Japan, Tokyo: Japan Institute of the Middle East,
1988.
 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982: The Record of International Peoples’ Tribunal on
Israeli Invasion of Lebanon [IPTIL], Tokyo: Sanyusha, 1984.
 Japan-Arab Gulf Relations before World War II, in Proceedings of the 4 th Seminar of the Centres and Institutions concerned with Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies,
Abu Dhabi Nov. 1979, Abu Dhabi: Centre for Documentation and Research, 1982.
 Perception of Different Cultures: The Islamic Civilization and Japan, in The
Islamic World and Japan, Tokyo: The Japan Foundation, 1981.
 Japan’s Discovery of the Arab World, Basis of Mutual Cognizance and its
Future, in Arab-Japanese Relations, Tokyo: Japan National Committee for the
Study of Arab-Japanese Relations, 1981.
 Chuuto Handobukku (Handbook for Middle Eastern Studies), Tokyo: Kodansha,
1979.
 Isuramu Jiten (Encyclopedia of Islam) [Co-edited by Johei Shimada & Tsugitaka
Sato], Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1978.
 Modernization and Nationalism in the Arab World, in Papers submitted to the
Conference on Civilizational Changes in the Middle East in Modern Times, Cairo: Ain
Shams University Press, 1977.
 Al-yâbân wa-l-‘arab (Japan and the Arabs), Majalla markaz al-dirâsât al-filastinîya
20, Baghdad: The Center for Palestine Studies, Baghdad University, 1977.
 Arabu no Kaiho (Annotated Documents on Palestine Problem), Tokyo:
Heibonsha, 1974.
 [ed.] Iwanami Koza Sekai Rekishi (World History Series) 31 Volumes, Tokyo:
Iwanami Shoten, 1969-75.
 Arabu no Gendaishi (Contemporary History of the Arab World), Tokyo: Toyo
Keizai Shimposha, 1959.