Kan Kimura

Who is Kan Kimura?

Kan Kimura is a Japanese scholar of Political Studies and Area Studies. He is now a professor at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan.

He was born in 1966 in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He studied at Kyoto University, and received his L.L.D. in 2001 by his first book, Chosen/Kankoku Nashonarizumu to 'Shokoku-Ishiki' from Kyoto University.

He became a Research Associate at Faculty of Law and Literature of Ehime University in 1993, and taught between 1994 and 1997 as a Lecturer at the same university.

In 1997 he moved to the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University as an associate professor, and became a full professor in April 2005.

He was also a Research Fellow of Korea Foundation in 1996-1997, a visiting scholar at Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University in 1998-1999, a visiting scholar at Asiatic Research Center of Korea University in 2001, a visiting scholar at Sejong Institute in 2006, and a visiting fellow at Faculty of Asian Studies of the Australian National University in 2008. He was also a visiting scholar of The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington in Seattle from 2010 to 2011.