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Shiho Toishiba (Ph.D.(Literature), University of Tsukuba, 2019) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Tohoku University. Before joining in the university in 2022, I was a JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (2019-22).

I recently published Senzosaishi to Bosei no Kindai: Tsukurareta Kokuminteki Shūzoku 『先祖祭祀と墓制の近代―創られた国民的習俗』（Yokohama: Shunpūsha, 2020）Ancestor Worship and Grave System in Modernizing Japan: The Invention of National custom, and submitted her paper「明治期ジャパノロジストの祖先崇拝概念―研究前夜―」（『東北宗教学』18）”How Did Meiji Era Japanologists View Ancestor Worship?: Before Empirical Research Began”(Tohoku Journal of Religious Studies, vol.18) in 2022. And an article “Ancestors and the Japanese People: Graves and Funerals from the Perspective of Modern History” I wrote was published on the website of Discuss Japan: Japan Foreign Policy Forum (published by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan) in 2022.

https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/society/pt2022031019364311913.html

Specializes in sociology of religion and history of modern Japanese religion.