Prof. Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska

Academic career

• 1977: M.A. in humanities (Japanese studies), Department of Japanese and Korean Studies, University of Warsaw
• 1987: Ph.D. in humanities, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
• 1987: assistant professor, Department of Japanese and Korean Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
• 1999: doctor habilitatus in humanities (history), Faculty of History, University of Warsaw
• 2000-2001: assistant professor (part time), Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
• 2003 (till now): professor, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Chair of Japanese Studies
• 2007-2013: professor, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
• 2014: titular life professorship in the humanities granted by the President of the Republic of Poland
• professor ordinarius
• 2015: The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, granted by His Majesty the Emperor and the government of Japan in appreciation for long-term research activities and for the development of Polish-Japanese relations.

http://www.pl.emb-japan.go.jp/kultura/20150708.html

http://www.pl.emb-japan.go.jp/kultura/j_20150708.html

• 2019: The Japan Foundation Award for lifetime scientific and educational work and for History of Polish-Japanese Relations (1904-1945), “the unparalleled, epoch-making work, that represents the world’s first extensive chronicle of the two nations’ relationship”
  
• on the award and the award ceremony (November 7, 2019): https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/about/press/2019/dl/2019-022.pdf

https://www.jpf.go.jp/j/about/award/archive/2019/index.html

https://www.wochikochi.jp/topstory/2019/12/awards2019-presentation- ceremony.php 

• 2022 – Kokiken Japan Study Award (Nihon Kenkyūshō) granted by Kokka Kihon Mondai Kenkyūjo for services to the promotion of Japanese culture, and two monographs in Japanese on History of Polish- Japanese relations

Main research experiences

• 2023: visiting research professor at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters (Takashima Foundation Fellow)
• 2019: lectures in Japan on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Polish-Japanese relations; The Japan Foundation Award ceremony and special lecture at the University of Tokyo
• 2018, 2017: visiting research professor at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters (National Science Center grant, Poland)
• 2017: scientific research in Tokyo, the Josai International University (National Science Center grant, Poland)
• 2015: visiting research professor at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters (Takashima Foundation Fellow)
• 2013: visiting research professor at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters (Japan Foundation Fellow)
• 2012, 2010, 2004, 2003: joint scientific researches at Tokyo International University, Kawagoe
• 2009, 2008: research project “Polish Graves in Japan” in cooperation with Japanese specialists (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage grant, Poland)
• 2006: visiting research professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (Takashima Foundation Fellow)
• 2001: visiting professor, Institute of Social Studies, University of Tokyo
• 1996: visiting research professor, University of Tokyo (Takashima Foundation Fellow)
• 1993: exchange research associate from the University of Warsaw at Rikkyo University, Tokyo
• 1990-1991: visiting research fellow at the University of Tokyo (Japan Foudation Fellow)
• 1983-1985: Japan’s Ministry of Education research student, the University of Tokyo

A member of the international project of the Toshiba International Foundation: “Japan-Insights – Exploring Expert Experiences”. The main purpose of the project was to promote a deeper understanding of Japan on the occasion of the 2020 (2021) Olympics and Paralympics – http://www.japan-insights.jp/ ;

https://www.japan-insights.jp/essays/search_authors.html; https://www.japan-insights.jp/essays/search_topics.html

*Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska, The Symbol of Modern Japan. Emperor Meiji – his activities as a monarch of new times,

https://www.japan-insights.jp/essays/essays17.html

Main publications (selection)

– books

2023: Dzieje kultury japońskiej (History of Japanese culture), Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa

2019: Historia stosunków polsko-japońskich (History of Polish-Japanese relations), vol. II: 1945-2019 (Suplement, ed. Jędrzej Greń), Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Orientalistyczny, Katedra Japonistyki, Seria Japonica

– translated into Japanese as Nihon Pōrando kankeishi 1945-2019, transl. Shiraishi Kazuko, Sairyūsha, Tōkyō 2021

2019: Historia stosunków polsko-japońskich (History of Polish-Japanese relations), vol. I: 1904-1945 (co-author Andrzej T. Romer), revised and enlarged by E. Pałasz-Rutkowska 3^rd edtion, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Orientalistyczny, Katedra Japonistyki, Seria Japonica, Warszawa; 1^st edition: Historia stosunków polsko-japońskich 1904-1945, Dom Wydawniczy Bellona, Warszawa 1996; enlarged and revised by E. Pałasz-Rutkowska 2^nd edition: Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa 2009

– translated into Japanese as: Nihon Pōrando kankeishi, transl. Shiba Riko, Sairyūsha, 1^st edition Tōkyō 2009; enlarged and revised 2^nd Japanese edition, Tōkyō 2019

2017: Spotkania międzykulturowe. Cudzoziemcy w Japonii (XVI-XX wiek) (Cross-cultural encounters. Foreigners in Japan, 16th – 20th cent.), ed. E. Pałasz-Rutkowska, Japonica, Warszawa

2016: Spotkania międzykulturowe. Japończycy w świecie (do XX wieku) (Cross-cultural encounters. Japanese in the world till 20th cent.), ed. E. Pałasz-Rutkowska, Japonica, Warszawa

2012: Cesarz Meiji (1852-1912). Wizerunek władcy w modernizowanej Japonii [Emperor Meiji. The ruler’s image in a modernizing Japan], WUW, Warszawa

2010: W poszukiwaniu polskich grobów w Japonii. Nihon ni okeru Pōrandojin bohi no tansaku. In Search of Polish Graves in Japan, ed. E. Pałasz-Rutkowska, the Japanese part ed. C. Inaba, Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego, Warszawa

2009: Polska i Japonia. W 50. rocznicę wznowienia stosunków oficjalnych (Poland and Japan, In the 50th Anniversary of the re-establishment of official relations), ed. E. Pałasz-Rutkowska, WUW, Warszawa

2004: Japonia. Historia państw świata w XX wieku (Japan. The history of countries in the world in the XXth century); co-author K. Starecka, Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa https://www.academia.edu/48726092/Japonia_Historia_pa%C5%84stw_%C5%9Bwiata_w_XX_wieku

1998: Polityka Japonii wobec Polski 1918-1941 (Japan’s policy towards Poland 1918-1941), Nozomi, Warszawa

1990: General Masaki Jinzaburō and the Imperial Way Faction (Kōdōha) in the Japanese Army, 1932-1936, „Orientalia Varsoviensia”, No. 4, WUW, Warsaw; 2^nd edition, enlarged and revised by E. Pałasz-Rutkowska  in: „Analecta Nipponica” 2014, No. 4, pp. 151-223 (part I), and „Analecta Nipponica” 2015, No. 5, pp. 139-183 (part II)

– articles and chapters in collective works

2023: 100 Years of Japanese Studies at the University of Warsaw, w: Unique or Universal? Japan and Its Contribution to World Civilization, 100 Years of Japanese Studies at the University of Warsaw, red. Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi, Jędrzej Greń, vol. 1, s. 23-50, Open Access https://www.wuw.pl/product-eng-18729-Unique-or-universal-Japan-and-its-Contribution-to-World-Civilization-Volume-1-100-Years-of-Japanese-Studies-at-the-University-of-Warsaw-EBOOK.html

https://www.academia.edu/113046693/100_Years_of_Japanese_Studies_at_the_University_of_Warsaw

2022: Intelligence cooperation between Poland and Japan during the Second World War, “Prace Historyczne”, Nr 149 (2), s. 319-342 https://www.ejournals.eu/Prace-Historyczne/2022/Numer-2/art/22104/

2022: Dynastia cesarska Japonii. Perspektywy, w: O Ty, z jakiejkolwiek przychodzisz krainy, przeczytaj opowiedzianą pieśń, red. Sylwia Surdykowska-Konieczny, et al., Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2022, s. 273-288

2021: Ambassador Tadeusz Romer – Diplomat and Humanitarian in Japan (1937-1941), in: Tadeusz Romer 1894-1978: From the Crash of Empires and Poland’s Rebirth to the Dawn of Solidarność (Proceedings of the International Conference at McGill University, Montreal, 22 October 2018), ed. A. Domanski, S. Latek, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada, Montreal, pp. 45-73

2020: Poland and Japan – the impact of the Cold War on bilateral relations, „Prace Historyczne”, Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, No. 147(3), pp. 619-635 https://www.ejournals.eu/Prace-Historyczne/2020/Numer-3/

2020: Profesor Jolanta Tubielewicz (1931-2003) – współtwórczyni warszawskiej szkoły japonistycznej, „Przegląd Orientalistyczny”, No. 1, pp. 69-77 http://pto.orient.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2021/03/Przegl.Orient.-1-2020.pdf

2020: On the opposite sides of the Iron Curtain? Bilateral political activity of Poland and Japan after 1957, “Silva Iaponicarum” 2018/2019, No. 56/57/58/59, Special edition, Problems and Perspectives for Japan in a Changing World: Thirty Years of Japanese Studies in Poznań, edited by A. Jabłoński, J. Walkowiak, pp. 242-266 http://silvajp.home.amu.edu.pl/Silva%2056575859.pdf https://www.academia.edu/103317494/On_the_Opposite_Sides_of_the_Iron_Curtain_Bilateral_Political_Activity_of_Poland_and_Japan_after_1957

2020: Sengo Nihon ni okeru Porando kenkyu (Research on Poland in post-war Japan), „Renikusa”, No. 10-1, special edition „Nihon Yoroppa Sekai”, pp. 500-511

2020: Kultura japońska w Polsce. Instytucje i miłośnicy (Japanese culture in Poland. Institutions and lovers), in: Japonia w perspektywie transkulturowej (Japan in a transcultural perspective), ed. I. Kordzińska-Nawrocka, A. Kozyra, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Orientalistyczny, Katedra Japonistyki, Warszawa, s. 21-42

2019: Hirohito. Wychowanie i edukacja przyszłego cesarza (Hirohito. The upbringing and education of the future Emperor), in: Japonia ery Shōwa (1926-1989). Kultura i realia społeczne (Shōwa Era Japan. Culture and Social Reality), ed. K. Starecka, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Seria Japonica, Warszawa 2019, pp. 43-67

2019: Polish diaspora in Japan, „Rocznik Orientalistyczny/Yearbook of Oriental Studies”, t. LXXII, z. 1, pp. 72-84 Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN i Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/129439/edition/112968/content

2018: Japanese castaways as source of information on “the other” cultures in times of Japanese isolation, w: Spain-India-Russia. Centres, Borderlands and Peripheries of Civilisations. Anniversary Book to Professor Jan Kieniewicz on His 80^th Birthday, red. J.S. Ciechanowski, C. Gonzales Caizan, Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Sub Lupa, Warszawa 2018, pp. 547-555https://www.academia.edu/105426898/Japanese_Castaways_as_Source_of_Information_on_the_Other_Cultures_in_Times_of_Japanese_Isolation

2017: Polska i Japonia po II wojnie światowej. W 60. Rocznicę wznowienia stosunków oficjalnych (Poland and Japan after the WW II. On the 60th Anniversary of the reestablishment of official relations), „Prace Historyczne”, Zeszyty Naukowe UJ, No. 144 (4) /2017, pp. 793-809   http://www.ejournals.eu/Prace-Historyczne/2017/Numer-4/art/10096/

2017: Shōwa tennō to sono jidai (Emperor Shōwa and his times), „Analecta Nipponica”, No. 7, pp. 11-22 https://www.academia.edu/44838949/%E6%98%AD%E5%92%8C%E5%A4%A9%E7%9A%87%E3%81%A8%E3%81%9D%E3%81%AE%E6%99%82%E4%BB%A3

2017: Działalność polskich misji zakonnych w Japonii (Activities of Polish clergy in Japan), „Przegląd Orientalistyczny”, No. 3 – 4/, pp. 423-438 http://pto.orient.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2018/07/P.Orient-3-4-17.pdf

2017: The Polish Ambassador Tadeusz Romer – A Rescuer of Refugees in Tokyo, “Darbai ir Dienos” vol. 67, Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas, Kaunas, pp. 239-254 https://www.vdu.lt/cris/bitstream/20.500.12259/34412/3/ISSN2335-8769_2017_N_67.PG_239-254.pdf

2017: Cudzoziemcy z Zachodu w Japonii (połowa XVI–XX wiek) (Foreigners from the West in Japan, 16th – 20th cent.), in: Spotkania międzykulturowe. Cudzoziemcy…, pp. 13-66

2016: Japonia od początku państwowości do XX wieku (Japan from the beginning till 20 century), in: Spotkania międzykulturowe. Japończycy …, pp. 13-25

2016: Od Korei i Chin po Europę i Amerykę. Polityka zagraniczna i podróże zamorskie Japończyków (From Korea and China to Europe and America. The Foreign policy and Japanese travel overseas), in: Spotkania międzykulturowe. Japończycy…, pp. 26-80

2016: Pierwsza oficjalna misja dyplomatyczna z Japonii do Europy (1862) (The first diplomatic mission from Japan to Europe (1862); co-author A. Jarosiewicz), in: Spotkania międzykulturowe. Japończycy…, pp. 177-200

2016: „Dwa ciała” cesarza Meiji (Emperor’s two bodies), in: Cielesność w kulturze Japonii. Religia, historia, sztuka (The Body Culture in Japan. Religion, History and Art), ed. A. Kozyra, I. Kordzińska-Nawrocka, Japonica, Warszawa, pp. 160-203

2016: Difficult Beginnings: The Problem Concerning the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations between Poland and Japan after World War II, „Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia”, No. 29, pp. 147-164; http://aav.iksiopan.pl/index.php/pl/publikacje/133-acta-asiatica-varsoviensia-29-2016-pl/616-difficult-beginnings-the-problem-concerning-the-restoration-of-diplomatic-relations-between-poland-and-japan-after-world-war-ii

2015: Dwadzieścia lat działalności Fundacji imienia Takashimy, in: Japonia ery Heisei alienacje i powroty [Japan of the Heisei era. Alienations and returns], ed. K. Starecka, A. Żuławska-Umeda, Japonica, Warszawa, pp. 13-23; in English as Twenty Years of Takashima Foundation Activity, transl. A. Bryson, U. Mach-Bryson, pp. 25-35

2015: Intronizacja w erze Heisei. Tradycja i zmiany (Enthronement in the Heisei era. Tradition and changes), in: Japonia ery Heisei …., pp. 37-57 https://www.academia.edu/44838871/Intronizacja_w_erze_Heisei_Tradycja_i_zmiany

2015: Pōrando Nihonkan no kokkō kaifuku mondai. Dainiji sekai taisengo no gaikō kankei (The problem concerning the restoration of diplomatic relations between Poland and Japan after World War II), „Nihon Rekishi“, July, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, pp. 61-71    

2015: Shiberia no koji o omou (Thinking about Siberian orphans), in: Fukudenkai no ayumi. Meiji kyūnen kara no rekishi o mirai e (History of the Fukudenkai. From 1876 till the future), Fukudenkai, Tōkyō, p. 43　

2014: Buronisuwafu Piusutsuki no Pōrando to Nihon [Poland of Bronisław Piłsudski and Japan], „Silva Iaponicarum”, Fasc. XL, summer, pp. 27-41 http://silvajp.home.amu.edu.pl/Silva%2040.pdf

2014: The Making of a European Friend: Japan’s Recognition of Independent Poland, in: The Decade of the Great War. Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s, ed. T. Minohara, Tze-ki Hon, E. Dawley, BRILL, Leiden, Boston, pp. 231-256 https://www.academia.edu/53719911/The_Making_of_a_European_Friend_Japan_s_Recognition_of_Independent_Poland

2014: Pamięć o Cesarzu Meiji – twórcy Japonii nowoczesnej [Remembering Emperor Meiji – the creator of modern Japan], in: Z chryzantemą w herbie, ed. U. Mach-Bryson, A. Zalewska, Japonica, Warszawa, pp. 33-49

2014: Nihon to Pōrando no kokumin wa naze shitashii kimochi o motte ita no ka (Why Poles and Japanese love each other), „Rekishi Kaidō”, No. 3, Tōkyō, pp. 64-68 

2013: Meiji tennō. Kindaika suru Nihon ni okeru kunshuzō (Emperor Meiji. The ruler’s image in a modernizing Japan), „Kamizono”, No. 10, Meiji Jingū Kokusai Shintō Bunka Kenkyūkai, Tōkyō, pp. 111-122

2013: Cesarz Meiji – nowe obowiązki władcy (Meiji Emperor – new duties of the ruler), in: W kręgu wartości kultury Japonii (Focus: Japanese cultural values), ed. A. Kozyra, WUW, Warszawa, pp. 372-385

2012: Polacy – jeńcy z wojny japońsko-rosyjskiej w Japonii (The Poles – the prisoners of war during the Russo-Japanese war), in: Japonia w Polsce. W 90. rocznicę nawiązania stosunków oficjalnych między Polską a Japonią (Japan in Poland. In the 90th anniversary of the establishment of official relations between Poland and Japan), ed. B. Kubiak Ho-Chi, WUW, Warszawa, pp. 391-413

2011: Nihon ni nemuru Pōrandojintachi (The Polish soldiers laid in peace in Japan), „Gunjishigaku. The Journal of Military History”, No. 47/3, XII, Tōkyō, pp. 4-17

2011: In Search of Polish Traces in Japan in the 21th Century, in: Japan. New Challenges in the 21st Century “Silva Iaponicarum” ed. B. Bochorodycz, A. Jabłoński, M. Kanert, No. 23/24/25/26, Poznań, pp. 30-49 http://silvajp.home.amu.edu.pl/Silva%2023242526.pdf

2010: Kobieta na japońskim tronie? Problem sukcesji w rodzinie cesarskiej (Woman on the Japanese throne? The problem of succession in the imperial family), in: Świat Orientu – Orient w świecie (The world of the Orient. Orient in the world), ed. A. Bareja-Starzyńska, P. Balcerowicz, J. Rogala, WUW, Warszawa, pp. 218-239 https://www.academia.edu/49111534/Kobieta_na_japo%C5%84skim_tronie_Problem_sukcesji_w_rodzinie_cesarskiej

2010: Japońskie spotkania z Europą, lata 1543-1945 (Japan encounters Europe 1543-1945), in: Cywilizacja europejska (European civilisation), ed. M. Koźmiński, Wydawnictwo Instytutu Historii PAN, Warszawa, pp. 465-495

2010: Wojna japońsko-rosyjska a Polacy. Nichiro sensō to Pōrandojin. The Poles and the Russo-Japanese War, in: W poszukiwaniu polskich grobów w Japonii…, pp. 48-69

2009: A New Image of the Japanese Emperor – Mutsuhito and His Six Great Imperial Tours of the Country (roku daijunko) 1872-1885, in: Civilisation of Evolution. Civilisation of Revolution. Metamorphoses in Japan 1900-2000, ed. A. Jabłoński, S. Meyer, K. Morita, Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Manggha, Kraków, pp. 423-431

2009: Od Nary do Tokio. Małżonki cesarskie i damy dworu (From Nara to Tokyo. Imperial spouses and court ladies), in: Dziesięć wieków „Genji monogatari” w kulturze Japonii (1000 year anniversary of „Genji monogatari” in Japanese culture), ed. I. Kordzińska-Nawrocka, WUW, Warszawa, pp. 329-346

2008: Ambassador Tadeusz Romer. His Role in Polish-Japanese Relations (1937-1941), “Silva Iaponicarum”, Fasc. XVIII, winter, pp. 82-104; http://silvajp.home.amu.edu.pl/Silva%2018.pdf

2008: Ōa no kakehashi – Tsuruga (Tsuruga – bridge between Europe and Asia), in: Ōa no kakehashi – Tsuruga, Tōsei Gakusha, Tsuruga, pp. 5-14

2007: Profesor Wiesław Kotański (1915-2005). Outstanding Scholar in Japanese Studies, in: Beyond Borders: Japanese Studies in the 21^st Century. In Memoriam Wiesław Kotański, ed. A. Kozyra, I. Kordzińska-Nawrocka, Department of Japanese and Korean Studies, Nozomi, Warsaw, pp. 21-24

2006: Cesarz Meiji – symbol nowych czasów (Emperor Meiji – symbol of new times), in: Japonia okresu Meiji. Od tradycji ku nowoczesności (Japan of Meiji era. From tradition to modernity), ed. B. Kubiak-Hochi, Nozomi, Warszawa 2006, pp. 10-38

2006: Polska – Japonia – Mandżukuo. Sprawa uznania Mandżukuo przez Polskę (Poland- Japan-Manchukuo. The case of the recognition Manchukuo by Poland), „Przegląd Orientalistyczny” No. 1-2, Warszawa, pp. 3-18 https://www.academia.edu/105425583/Polska_Japonia_Mand%C5%BCukuo_Sprawa_uznania_Mand%C5%BCukuo_przez_Polsk%C4%99

2006: Pōrando – Tsuruga – Nihon. Yūkō kankei no tōrimichi (Poland – Tsuruga – Japan. The road to friendly relations), in: Tsuruga. Nihonkai kara Biwako e (From Biwa lake to the Sea of Japan), ed. Chihōshi Kenkyū Kyōgikai, Tōkyō, pp. 7-27

2005: Nichiro sensō ga 20 seiki zenpan no Nippo kankei ni ataeta impakuto ni tsuite (The Russo-Japanese War and its Impact on the Polish-Japanese Relations in the First Half of the Twentieth Century), in: Nichiro sensō to sekai – 100 nengo no shiten kara (The Russo-Japanese War and the World: A Centennial Perspective), Bōeichō Bōei Kenyūjo, Tōkyō, pp. 143-168

2005: Japońskie reakcje na spotkania z Zachodem (Japanese reactions to meetings with the West), in: Wizerunek Europejczyków i kultury Zachodu w Azji i Afryce (The image of Europeans and Western culture in Asia and Africa), Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa, pp. 21-83

2003: Manchuria in Polish-Japanese Relations in the 1930s, “Rocznik Orientalistyczny”, T. LVI, Z. 2, Warsaw, pp. 129-140

2002: Japonia (Japan), in: Encyklopedia historyczna świata (Historical Encyclopedia of the World), vol. XI: Azja (Asia), ed. M. Dziekan, part. 2, Agencja Publicystyczno-Wydawnicza Opres, Kraków, pp. 7-68

2001: The Other in Intercultural Contacts. The Image of Japan in Poland in the End of the XIXth and the beginning of the XXth Centuries and the Interwar Period, “Discussion Paper Series”, F-95, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 2001; https://www.academia.edu/74861561/EPRutkowska_The_Other

2001: Miejsce Polski w polityce zagranicznej Japonii, 1918-1941 (The place of Poland in Japan foreign policy), in: Język i kultura Japonii (Language and culture of Japan), „Japonica Toruniensia” vol. 2, ed. K. Stefański, Toruń, pp. 89-105

2000: Major Fukushima Yasumasa and His Influence on the Japanese Perception of Poland at the Turn of the Century, in: The Japanese and Europe. Images and Perceptions, ed. B. Edstrom, Japan Library, Curzon Press Ltd, London 2000, pp. 125–135

1999:Tōkute chikai. Pōrando Nihon ryōkokuminkan no kōkanjō no gensen. Dalecy czy bliscy? O źródłach wzajemnej sympatii Polaków i Japończyków (Far or near? On sources of mutual sympathy of Poles and Japanese), in: Shopan Pōrando – Nihonten. Nihon Pōrando kokkō juritsu 80 shūnen oyobi kokusai Shopan nen kinen jigyō. Chopin – Polska – Japonia. Wystawa z okazji 80 rocznicy nawiązania stosunków oficjalnych między Polską a Japonią oraz Roku Chopinowskiego, Tokyo, pp. 62-71

1996: The ‘Unique’ Character of the Emperor – the Main Leader of Modern Japan? in: Leaders and Leadership in Japan, ed. I. Neary, Japan Library, Curzon Press Ltd, England 1996, pp. 116-128

1995: Polish-Japanese Co-operation during World War II, „Japan Forum” – Journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies, vol. 7, No. 2, Oxford University Press, pp. 285-317 (co-author A. T. Romer)1993: Kindai tennōsei no saikentō (Revision of the modern Emperor system), in: Nihon kindaishi no saikōchiku (Reconstruction of the modern history of Japan), ed. Itō Takashi, Yamakawa Shuppansha, Tōkyō, pp. 151-171