Program Overview

Introduction to the Asian History Program

The Asian History program at Osaka University is renowned globally for its expertise in early modern and modern Chinese history, premodern Central Asian history, medieval and early modern Southeast Asian history, and Asian maritime history. Faculty members utilize classical Chinese texts and other Asian language sources, combining fieldwork results in their research to meet global standards.

Program Overview

Graduate students in the Asian History program are instructed to set high-level research objectives and judge their performance by international standards. The program expects students to conduct specialist research in each sub-field, absorb a broad range of scholarship about Asian and world history, and position their research outcomes against a cross-section of academic fields. This program provides a suitable challenge not only for those wishing to become specialist researchers but also for individuals who aspire to work as social studies or historical geography teachers at the middle or high school level, as well as those seeking a deeper understanding of the newest findings in the field.

Faculty Members

• TSUTSUMI, Kazuaki (MA)
  • Specialty: Asian History
• MATSUI, Dai (Ph.D.)
  • Specialty: History of Central Asia and the Mongol empire (10.14. cc); Philological research on Old Turkic and Mongol documents
• TAGUCHI, Kojiro (Ph.D.)
  • Specialty: Chinese history: Socio-economic and Fiscal Structure of Early Modern China, Land Registration during KMT Period

Associate Professors

• KAWAKAMI, Mayuko (Ph.D.)
  • Specialty: Humanities & social sciences, History - General
• TAGA, Yoshihiro (Ph.D.)
  • Specialty: Humanities & social sciences, History - Asia/Africa

Undergraduate Program Offerings

The university offers a wide range of undergraduate programs, including but not limited to:

• Philosophy, Thought and Culture
• Ethics
• Chinese Philosophy
• Indian Philosophy
• Japanese History
• Asian History
• European and American History
• Archaeology
• Japanese Studies
• Human Geography
• Japanese Linguistics
• Japanese Literature and Japanese Historical Linguistics
• Comparative Literature
• Chinese Literature
• English and American Literature and English Linguistics
• German Literature
• French Literature
• Aesthetics and Science of Literary Arts
• Musicology and Theatre Studies
• Art History

Graduate Program

The Graduate Program, including the M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian History, is designed to provide advanced research training and academic excellence in the field. The program focuses on producing graduates who can contribute significantly to the understanding of Asian history and its global implications.