prof. Taro Kinugasa

Associate Professor at Kobe University, Japan, specializing in the modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe. My expertise encompasses nationalist movements, language and confessional issues, selection and displacement of populations due to wars and conflicts, and related experiences and representations in the German-Slavic borderlands. In my current research, I focus on investigating migrants and inhabitants who remained in Silesia after the Second World War, which serves as my main research topic. Additionally, I am exploring European-American communities in the Kobe city area.