Dr. HOSHINO, Noriaki
星野統明博士
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ph.D. Cornell University
M.A. University of Tokyo
B.A. University of Tsukuba
(852) 3411 6563
noriakih@hkbu.edu.hk

RESEARCH FOCUS

Modern Japanese History
Intellectual and Cultural
History History of Migration

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Articles (refereed)
“Histories of Modern Migration in East Asia: Studies of the First Half of the Twentieth Century” (withQianZhu),International Journal of Asian Studies14:2 (July 2017).
“Racial Contacts across the Pacific and the Creation ofMinzokuin the Japanese Empire,”Inter-Asia Cultural Studies17:2 (Jun 2016): 186-205.
“Analysis of Subject Formation in the Empire- Discourse of Korean Intellectuals inRyokki” (in Japanese),Language and Information Sciences, Vol.4 (March 2006): 311-324.
Book Chapters (refereed)
“Migration and the Formation of a Diverse Japanese Nation during the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” in Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary, and Shinnosuke Takahashi (eds.),Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements(Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Reviews
“A Folklorist as Translator,” Review of Melek Ortabashi’s The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio.H-Net Reviews(Sep 2015).
“Japan’s Northeast: Regionalism and Nationalism,” Review of Nathan Hopson’s Dissertation “Tōhoku as Postwar Thought: Regionalism, Nationalism, and Culturalism in Japan’s Northeast.”Japan Studies Dissertation Reviews(Dec 2013).

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS (Selected)

Externally-funded
2018-2021: Principal Investigator, ECS “On Transpacific Japanese Migration”
2022-: Principal Investigator, GRF “On Mid-twentieth Century Japanese Intellectual History”
Internally-funded
Start-up grant (HKBU)