Kan Kimura

He is now a professor at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan.

He was also a visiting scholar of The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington in Seattle from 2010 to 2011, a visiting professor at Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University in 2014.

He was also a director of the Japanese Association for Comparative Politics, research collaborator of the sub-committee on the modern history at the First Japan-Korea Collaborative History Research Committee, which was established by the agreement between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in 2001.

He was also appointed to the president of "the Pan-Pacific Forum", an NPO in Kobe for international cooperation established in the 1980s.

He was awarded the Special Prize of the 13th Asian and Pacific Prize by the Asia Society and Mainichi Shimbun newspaper in 2001 for Chosen/Kankoku Nashonarizumu to 'Shokoku-Ishiki (Korean Nationalism as a Small Nation), the 25th Suntory Academic Prize by the Suntory Foundation in 2003 for Kankoku ni okeru 'Kenishugiteki' Taisei no Seiritsu (Authoritarianization in South Korea), and The Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize by Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper and the Chuokoron Shinsha publishing house in 2015 for Nikkan Rekishininshiki Mondai towa Nanika (What the Historical Dispute between Japan and South Korea is).