FUKUOKA Mariko is associate Professor of History since 2014. She obtained her doctorate at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Tokyo in 2011. Among diverse historical topics, she is most interested in how the pre-modern East Asian international orders were shaken up and restructured into the emerging modern international relations from the middle to the later half of the nineteenth century. By utilizing German sources especially and relying parallelly on Japanese, English and Dutch sources, she is trying to shed new light on its historical process.

Her doctoral thesis was awarded the University of Tokyo Nambara Shigeru Publication Prize in 2012, which led to its publication from the University of Tokyo Press in 2013. The book received then the research encouragement award of the Japanese Society for German Studies in 2014.