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Koji Ito
伊藤 孝治
Koji Ito
伊藤 孝治
Graduate School of Humanities Division of Foreign Studies, Associate Professor (Lecturer)
k-ito.hmt osaka-u.ac.jp

keyword History of Fur Sealing,marine debris (plastic),International Law (Law of the Sea),Fisheries Oceanography,Science and Technology,Salmon,Fisheries,Marine Environment,Borderland,North Pacific and the Bering Sea,Alaska,Global History,Transnationalism,Indigenous History,Japanese Imperialism,US Imperialism,History of US-Japan Relations,US Diplomatic History

Research History 6

  1. 2022/04 - Present
    Osaka University Graduate School of Humanities Assistant Professor

  2. 2021/04 - 2022/03
    Hagoromo University of International Studies Department of Human Life Studies Assistant Professor

  3. 2019/08 - 2020/05
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History Standalone Teaching Assistant (HIST 259: Global History of World War II)

  4. 2019/01 - 2019/05
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History Teaching Assistant (HIST 274: US and the World since 1917 by Prof. Kristin Hoganson)

  5. 2018/08 - 2018/12
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History Teaching Assistant (HIST 100: Global History by Prof. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi)

  6. 2015/08 - 2017/06
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign International and Area Studies Library Research Assistant

Education 4

  1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of History (Ph.D. Program)

    2014/08 - 2021/05

  2. University of Washington at Seattle History (Exchange Program)

    2012/09 - 2013/06

  3. Osaka University Graduate School of Language and Culture (MA Program)

    2008/04 - 2010/03

  4. Osaka University of Foreign Studies Department of Foreign Studies (BA Program)

    2004/04 - 2008/03

Committee Memberships 8

  1. Japanese Association for American Studies Councillor

    2024/10 - Present

  2. Japanese Association for American Studies Member of the International Committee

    2024/07 - Present

  3. Kansai Forum for Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange President

    2024/04 - Present

  4. Kansai Forum for Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange Secretary

    2023/01 - 2024/03

  5. Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Graduate Student Committee Member

    2020/03 - 2022/06

  6. Hagoromo University of International Studies International Exchange Committee Member

    2021/04 - 2022/03

  7. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History Department Graduate Studies Committee Diversity Representative

    2019/08 - 2020/05

  8. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History Department Women's and Gender History Symposium Finance Committee Chair

    2019/10 - 2020/04

Professional Memberships 8

  1. Workshop for American History in Kansai

  2. Kansai Forum for Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange

  3. Association for Asian Studies

  4. Organization of American Historians

  5. American Historical Association

  6. Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

  7. Japanese Association for American History

  8. Japanese Association for American Studies

Research Areas 5

  1. Humanities & social sciences / Local studies / American Studies

  2. Humanities & social sciences / History - Europe/America /

  3. Humanities & social sciences / Sociology/history of science and technology /

  4. Environmental science/Agricultural science / Environmental policy and society /

  5. Humanities & social sciences / International relations /

Papers 4

  1. The Making of an American Ichthyological Empire: How The Structure of Perpetual Exploitation of Bristol Bay Salmon Developed in Southwest Alaska, 1883-1970s

    Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois 2021 Doctoral thesis

  2. Contesting Alaskan Salmon: Fishing Rights, Scientific Knowledge, and a U.S.-Japanese Fishery Dispute in Bristol Bay in the 1930s

    Koji Ito

    Japanese Journal of American Studies Vol. 31 p. 179-200 2020

  3. Politics in the Dark: An Interpretation of Japan-U.S. War Crisis over Hawaii in 1897

    Koji Ito

    Doshisha American Studies Supplement Vol. 20 No. 20 p. 53-72 2013

    Publisher:
  4. The Price of National Prestige: An Interpretation of the Japan-U.S. Confrontation over Hawaii at the Turn of the Century

    American Review Vol. 46 No. 46 p. 33-50 2012

    Publisher:

Misc. 3

  1. [Cross-Border Exchange] The Significance of Studying Abroad "Offline" in the Online Era, as Reflected in My Study Abroad Experiences at the University of Illinois

    Koji Ito

    Manufacturing and Technology Vol. 77 No. 2 p. 109-112 2025/04

  2. (Book Review) Ryoichi Takahashi, Hoppō Kaiiki o Meguru Kokusai Seijishi: Meijiki Nihon no Kaijū Ryōgyō

    Koji Ito

    Historical Journal No. 899 p. 99-103 2025/02

  3. (Book Review) Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022)

    Koji Ito

    History: Reviews of New Books Vol. 51 No. 2 p. 28-30 2023

Publications 7

  1. The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity,1860-1960

    2024/11 Scholarly book

    ISBN: 4872597710

  2. 領海・漁業・外交―19~20世紀の海洋への新視点―

    太田 出、川島 真、森口(土屋) 由香、奈良岡 聰智

    晃洋書房 2023/03

    ISBN: 4771037418

  3. Let’s Learn English through Various Subjects: From Culture to SDGs

    Koji Ito and Raluca Maria Ciolca

    University Education Press 2022/04

    ISBN: 9784866922034

  4. Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy

    Shimamoto, Mayako, Ito, Koji, Sugita, Yoneyuki

    Rowman & Littlefield 2015

    ISBN: 9781442250680

  5. アメリカ合衆国の連邦休日を英語で学ぼう

    Brooks, M.Scott, 伊藤, 孝治, 杉田, 米行

    大学教育出版 2014/10

    ISBN: 9784864292917

  6. Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West

    SAGE Reference/CQ Press 2013

    ISBN: 9781608719099

  7. 英字新聞「日経ウィークリー」活用法 2

    大学教育出版 2010/11

    ISBN: 9784864290371

Presentations 24

  1. An Attempt to Establish a Permanent Marine Mammal Conservation Regime: The Impact of Nationalistic Scientism in Japan’s Fur Seal Diplomacy in the 1950s and 1960s

    Kansai Forum for Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange 2025/04

  2. Useful Poachers: How Anglo-American Sealing Vessels Made Japan’s Modern Sealing Industry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

    Association for Asian Studies 2025/03

  3. Japan’s Salmon Fisheries and Its Construction of an Ecological Empire in the Northern Sea before the Second World War

    On Biodiversity: History, Heritage, and Research in Asia (National University of Singapore) 2023/07

  4. The Pacific as an Object of Inquiry and Control: Japanese Fisheries Scientists and Their Dream of Predictable Pelagic Fisheries before World War II

    International Workshop on Pacific Histories across Species and Borders (Osaka University) 2023/03

  5. Efforts to Create Ecological Maps: The Transformation of Salmon Fisheries in the North Pacific and the Rise of Fisheries Science during the Interwar Era

    Workshop for American History in Kansai 2023/02

  6. The Making of a Sockeye Salmon-Centered ecosystem in Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the Birth of an American Ichthyological Empire during the Interwar Period

    56th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for American Studies 2022/06

  7. Saving Salmon with Western Science: The Fisheries Crisis of 1919 and the Introduction of the “Predator Control” and “Stream Improvement” Projects in Southwest Alaska

    Kansai Forum for Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange 2022/04

  8. Why Alaskan History Matters for Americanist Scholars

    Sugita Laboratory Online Round Table 2021/03

  9. Inter-Imperial Entanglements of Politics and Oceanography: Japan’s Salmon Fisheries and Its Biosphere of Influence in the Northern Sea (Hokuyō) in the 1930s

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (Virtual conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic) 2021/03

  10. Forecasting Empire: Japan’s Northern Sea (Hokuyō) Fisheries and Scientific Knowledge about Salmon’s Habits during the Interwar Period

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (新型コロナウイルス感染拡大のため中止) 2020/03

  11. How to Retain America’s Fishing Empire? A U.S.-Japanese Fishery Dispute of the 1930s in Bristol Bay, Imperial Geopolitics, and Questions about the Freedom of the Seas Doctrine

    Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians 2019/04

  12. Whose Bristol Bay Incident? A U.S.-Japan Fishery Dispute in Alaskan Waters, the Great Depression, and Shifting International Geopolitics in the 1930s

    Asia-Pacific Studies Seminar (Osaka University) 2018/07

  13. More than Fisherman’s Problem: Migratory Fish in the Bering Sea and U.S.-Japan Relations before Pearl Harbor

    Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2018/06

  14. Inter-Imperial Tug-of-War over Salmon in the North Pacific: A Reconsideration of the Bristol Bay Incident of 1937-1938

    The 18th Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History 2018/03

  15. Contested Empire: Japanese Settler Leaders in Hawai‘i, 1885–1898

    Osaka City University-University of Illinois Exchange Symposium 2016/03

  16. 環太平洋海獣保護体制の誕生―世紀転換期の北太平洋における日本人密猟者とオットセイ保護条約の締結

    第14回関西若手アメリカ研究会 2015/07

  17. The Birth of Transpacific Marine Ecological Partnership: Japanese Poachers and the North Pacific Fur Seal Treaty of 1911

    大阪大学文化・人文科学共同演習セミナー 2015/07

  18. 1890年代後半における米国の島嶼政策の展開―ハワイとキューバを中心に

    第48回アメリカ学会年次大会 2014/06

  19. America’s Annexation of Hawaii of 1898 Reconsidered

    Spring Academy 2014 (Heidelberg Center for American Studies) 2014/03

  20. Politics in the Dark: An Interpretation of Japan-U.S. War Crisis over Hawaii in 1897

    アメリカ研究者の集い 2013(日米協会) 2013/09

  21. Pacific Alliance: An Interpretation of America’s Annexation of Hawaii at the Turn of the Century

    同志社アメリカ研究夏季セミナー 2012/07

  22. Reinterpretation of American Annexation of Hawai'i from the Viewpoint of Alliance Diplomacy in the International System

    アメリカ学会プロセミナー 2012/06

  23. 国威の代償―世紀転換期のハワイをめぐる日米対立

    大阪大学言語社会学会・言語文化学会合同研究発表会 2011/06

  24. The First Open Door Note as the Anti-British and Anti-Russian Note

    アメリカ研究者の集い 2010(日米協会) 2010/09

Social Activities 3

  • US Colonialism in Alaska Seen through the "Predator Control" Program

    Frompage Co.,Ltd. Yumenavi Lecture

    2024/02/21 -

  • The United States Seen through Alaska's Salmon Fisheries: An Empire of Sustainability?

    Department of Foreign Studies of Osaka University Monthly Multicultural Salon

    2023/07/20 -

  • Surviving a Turbulent 21st Century: The Significance of Foreign Language Learning and Area Studies in an Era of Unprecedented Globalization

    Department of Foreign Studies of Osaka University Open Day

    2022/08/03 -

Academic Activities 3

  1. The 59th Annual Meeting

    Japanese Association for American Studies

    2025/05/31 -

  2. July Meeting

    Kansai Forum for Japan-US Intellectual Exchange

    2024/07/26 -

  3. Proseminar 2024

    Japanese Association for American Studies

    2024/06/05 -