Researcher and Faculty Information

Koji Ozaki Ozaki Koji

OZAKI Koji

comment: He studies modern Japanese medicine and public health. In particular, he focuses on the process by which medical care and measures against infectious diseases, which in premodern times were described as "care" and were considered to be matters of "self-help," came to be established as public administration in modern times, such as "medical administration" and "hygiene administration," and examines this by adopting the methodologies of legal history and social history.

Main publications and papers: "Reexamination of the Introduction of Western Medicine during the Meiji Restoration" (Otemae University Review, No. 13, 2013)

"The Establishment of the Modern State: Military, Schools, and Hygiene" (Japanese History Research Group, Historical Studies Research Group, ed. Japanese History Lectures, Vol. 8, University of Tokyo Press, 2005)

"The International Sanitary Conference and Modern Japan" (Japanese History Studies, No. 439, 1999)

"On Goto Shinpei's idea of a sanitary nation" (Historia, no. 153, 1996)

Main classes taught: "The Door to Japanese History," "Lectures on Modern Japanese History," "Basic Seminars on Modern Japanese History," and "Graduation Research"