Yuzuru Tonai

Education:

1988 M.A., History, Gakushuin University
1986 B.A., History, Gakushuin University

Field of Expertise:

I am a bibliographer in the library. My responsibilities include the management and collection development of the library, and the dissemination of rare materials, including photographic images and written documents, related to the Russian Far East and its neighboring regions. My research interests include the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and the history of the Russian Far East (especially during 19th century and the first half of the 20th century).

Recent Publications (Selected):

Edited Books:

(with Teruyuki Hara, Manabu Takeno and Yuko Ikeda) Expansion and Contraction of the Japanese Empire: Siberian Intervention and Sakhalin/Karafuto. Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press, 2023 (in Japanese)
(with Isao Kikuchi, Mizue Tanaka, Makoto Ishihara, Makoto Mochida) Nature and History around the Sea of Okhotsk. No. 1-5. Sapporo: Sapporo-do Shoten, 2012-2022 (in Japanese)

Articles:

“A Short Sketch of the Provisional Zemstvo Administration of the Maritime Region (1920):Japan’s Intervention and Another Buffer State in the Russian Far East,” Roshiashi Kenkyu, No. 110, 2023 (in Japanese)
“The Formation of Border Control System and Forced Migration in the Russian Far East in 1930’s,” Studies on the History of Soviet-Japanese War. Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2023 (in Japanese)
“An Essay on the Russian Orthodox Church in the First Russian Revolution(1905): Why the Church Required Abolition of the Holy Sinod and Restoration of the Moscow Patriarchate?” Hajime Kaizawa et al. (eds.) Connection between <Transcendency> and <Life>: Toward a Critical Construction of the History of Modern and Contemporary Russian Thought. Tokyo: Suisei-Sha, 2023 (in Japanese)
“Vasily Boldyrev (1875-1933): Activities during the Stay in Japan (December 1918 – January 1920),” Roshiashi Kenkyu, No. 105, 2020.
“Amur Expedition by Gennady Nevelskoi and Japan at the End of the Edo Period,” Motonori Makino (ed.) Japanese and Russian Exchange in the Romanov Dynasty. Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2020 (in Japansese)
“Problems around Navigation in the Sakhalin Coastal Waters during World War II,” Roshiashi Kenkyu, No. 99, 2017 (in Japanese)
“Soviet Rule in South Sakhalin and Japanese Society, 1945-1949,” Svetlana Paichadze, Phillip Seaton, (eds.) Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border Karafuto / Sakhalin. London : Routledge, 2015

Other Works:

(Transcription and Annotation)(with Takuei Oikawa) The Diary of General Koichiro Tachibana (1861-1929) (1)-(5) Newsletter (Association for the Study of Modern History of North East Asia), No. 30-34, 2018-2022 (will be continued)(in Japanese)
(Website) Фотографические и картографические материалы по Сибири и Дальнему Востоку. (from 2008)

Grants and Awards:

"Fields" of the Siberian Intervention and the Diplomatic Visions of Japan and Russia (JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research B. 2023-2026)
Siberian Intervention and Changes in the East Asian International Environment (JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research B. 2019-2022)
Development of Theology in the Russian Orthodox Church and Filaret(Metropolitan of Moscow, 1782-1867) (JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research C. 2010-2012)