日暮 吉延

Dr. HIGURASHI Yoshinobu is professor of Japanese political history and foreign policy in the Faculty of Law at Teikyo University. He was born in Tokyo in 1962. He received his BA in Law from Rikkyo University in 1986, MA in History from Rikkyo University in 1988, and PhD in Political Science from Gakushuin University in 2000. At Kagoshima University, he has served as assistant professor (1993–1994), associate professor (1994–2004), and subsequently professor (2004–2012) in the Faculty of Law, Economics and the Humanities. He is the author of Tōkyō Saiban no kokusai kankei [The Tokyo War Crimes Trial and International Relations] (Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2002), which was awarded the Yoshida Shigeru Prize in 2003 and published as a Chinese-language edition in 2016 (Shanghai: Jiao Tong University Press). His most recent books are Tōkyō Saiban [The Tokyo War Crimes Trial] (Tokyo: Kodansha, 2008), awarded the 2008 Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities (History and Civilization category) and translated into Chinese in 2017 (New Taipei: Gusa Press), and Tōkyō Saiban o tadashiku yomu [Correctly Reading the Tokyo War Crimes Trial] (Tokyo: Bungeishunjū, 2008), co-authored with Dr. Ushimura Kei. Other works include his translation of Arnold C. Brackman’s The Other Nuremberg into Japanese (Tōkyō Saiban: Mou Hitotsu no Nuremberg, Tokyo: Jiji Press, 1991), and his supervision of the Japanese edition of John G. Roos’s In a Prison Called Sugamo [Sugamo jinmon chōsho] (Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbunsha, 1995).［quote from Yoshinobu HIGURASHI, translated by The Japan Institute of International Affairs, The Tokyo Trial: War Criminals and Japan's Postwar International Relations, Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2022.］