Personnel Information

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Shinsaku Kato


Title

Associate Professor

Field

Field of Economics
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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

  • Indian History

  • The Indian Ocean

  • South Asian History

  • International Law

  • Political Economy

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Graduating School 【 display / non-display 】

  • The University of Tokyo， Faculty of Literature， Department of Asian History

    University， 2014.03， Graduated

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Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

  • The University of Tokyo， Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology， Asian History

    Doctor's Course， 2020.03， Accomplished credits for doctoral program， Japan

  • The University of Tokyo， Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology， Asian History

    Master's Course， 2016.03， Completed， Japan

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Degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • MA (Letter)， Humanities & Social Sciences / History of Asia and Africa， The University of Tokyo， Coursework， 2016.03

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Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • Shiga University Faculty of Economics Department of Economics,Business,and Social Systems，Associate Professor， 2024.04 - Now

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External Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • Graduate School of Humanity and Sociology, the University of Tokyo Department of Asian History， Part-time Academic Affairs Staff， 2020.04 - 2021.03

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Association Memberships 【 display / non-display 】

  • THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

  • JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES

  • THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Historical studies in general

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Economic history

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / History of Asia and Africa

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Papers 【 display / non-display 】

  • Politics of Maritime Navigation in the Arabian Sea during the Seventeenth Century， Comparative Studies of Civilizations， vol.39 (p.23 - 38) ， 2023.11, Shinsaku Kato

    Research paper (scientific journal)， Single Author

  • Ship-owning Merchants in Mughal Surat: Disputes with the Dutch East India Company on the Navigation towards the Malabar Coast in 1685， Bulletin of the Society for Western and Southern Asiatic Studies (94) (p.36 - 58) ， 2022.06, Shinsaku Kato

    Research paper (scientific journal)， Single Author

  • The Dutch East India Company in the Port City of Surat on the West Coast of India in the Eighteenth Century， Acta Asiatica (122) (p.19 - 31) ， 2022.02, Shinsaku Kato

    Research paper (scientific journal)， Single Author

  • The Dutch East India Company and Its Privilege in Mughal Gujarat， Proceedings of the Indian History Congress (79) (p.293 - 302) ， 2019.12, Shinsaku Kato

    Research paper (international conference proceedings)， Single Author

  • European Piracy in the Western Indian Ocean and the Response of the Mughal Government: An Analysis of the Negotiations between the Mughal Government and the Dutch East India Company (c. 1690-1710)， Toyogakuho， vol.100 (4) (p.425 - 459) ， 2019.03, Shinsaku Kato

    Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)， Single Author

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Books 【 display / non-display 】

  • Trust in the Translations (Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization, Vol. 3), University of Tokyo Press, 2024.03, NODA, Jin (ed.)

    Scholarly book，The Dutch East India Company and Its Interpreters in the Mughal Empire, Contributor

  • Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land, Routledge, 2023.06, Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada (eds.)

    Scholarly book，Roads and Security Between Agra and Surat During the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries , Contributor

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Presentations 【 display / non-display 】

  • WEHC 2025: Session on “Global Supply Chains and Enterprises over the Long Eighteenth Century: Challenges for Sustainability in the Tide of Turmoil” Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ， 2025.07 - 2025.08，2025.07.30， Reconstructing Networks: The Dutch East India Company in Surat during the Mid-Eighteenth Century， Oral presentation (general)

  • Workshop on "Early Modern Maritime Asia from Global Perspectives" The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ， 2024.12，2024.12.14， Reorganising Trade: The Dutch East India Company in Surat during the Late Eighteenth Century， Oral presentation (general)

  • The 9th IMHA International Congress of Maritime History: "Oceans: Local Mobility, Global Connectivity" Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan, Republic of Korea, ， 2024.08，2024.08.20， Security against Piracy in the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1690-1710: Discussion among the Mughals and the East India Companies， Oral presentation (general)

  • The 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars: "Crossways of Knowledge" Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia, ， 2024.07 - 2024.08，2024.08.01， Maritime Sovereignty along the West Coast of India during the Eighteenth Century， Oral presentation (general)

  • 93th Annual Conference of the Socio-Economic History Society, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, ， 2024.05，2024.05.12， The Brokers of the Dutch East India Company in the Mughal Empire during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Case of Surat， Oral presentation (general)

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Awards 【 display / non-display 】

  • The 7th (2019) Award for Young Scholars, 2019.10， ，Japanese Society for South Asian Studies

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Research Grants & Projects 【 display / non-display 】

  • ，Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)，2025.04 - 2029.03

  • ，Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)，2025.04 - 2028.03

  • ，Armenian Networks around the Bay of Bengal during the Eigheenth Century from a Perspective of Multilingual Archival Sources，OtherFund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Collaborative Research)，2024.09 - 2028.03，Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  • ，A Study of Urban History in India，Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)，2015.04 - 2018.03，Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    Some of the results of the research project were (1) to prepare the GIS infrastructure for the study of historical formation of Indian towns, (2) to collect colonial documents related to the topics, (3) to digitize and geo-reference all the villages located in the Madras Presidency from the village statistics in the 1871 Census and integrate the information with GIS base maps, (4) to digitize records on all the joint stock companies and banks in India and to clarify regional characteristics of town formation, (5) to digitize and analyze the role of Madras in its domestic/international trade in the 19th century, and (6) to bring up younger generation of scholars in the field and to publicize the results of the research project in Japan and abroad.

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Charge of on-campus class subject 【 display / non-display 】

  • 専門演習II，Undergraduate (specialized)，2025 - Now

  • 社会経済史，Undergraduate (specialized)，2025 - Now

  • 専門演習I，Undergraduate (specialized)，2025 - Now

  • 歴史からの問い，Undergraduate (liberal arts)，2025

  • 欧米経済史，Undergraduate (specialized)，2024 - Now

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Charge of off-campus class subject 【 display / non-display 】

  • アジア太平洋の歴史，Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University，2023.09 - Now

  • 南アジア史/アジア地域史（4）B，Chuo University，2022.09 - 2024.03

  • 南アジア史演習，Chuo University，2022.04 - 2024.03

  • 国際関係史IIB，Kanda University of International Studies，2021.09 - 2024.03

  • 世界の歴史を学ぶ_02，Kyoritsu Women's University，2020.09 - 2024.03

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