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Professor Wataru Iijima

Speciality / Research theme / Keywords
History of infectious diseases, pandemics and endemics
Supervision
Masters ProgrammeDoctoral Programme

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Literature)

Background

Tokyo Gakugei University and Graduate School of Tokyo University

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, Osaka City University;

Associate Professor and Professor, Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University; Faculty of Letters, Aoyama Gakuin University;

Professor, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University;

Director, Museum of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University from 2024.

Teaching

I will have the opportunity to talk about the history of COVID-19, malaria, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, etc.

Research

At the TMGH, I will be preserving and passing on the materials, records and memories related to COVID-19.

At the Museum of Tropical Medicine, I will preserve and pass on materials, records and memories of the endemic.

The country/countries where you work currently

All regions where infectious diseases are prevalent, but my specialty is East Asia.

Five MOST IMPORTANT/INTERESTING recent publications

  1. Wataru Iijima, “Kansensho no Rekishigaku (History of Infectious Diseases)”, Iwanami Shinsho, 2024
  2. Wataru Iijima, “Lockdown and ‘She-qu’ in Wuhan, China: Community Issues in the Anti-COVID-19,” Shakaikeizai-Shigaku (Socio-Economic History Journal), 89₋2, 2023
  3. IIJIMA, Wataru, “Kansensho to Watashitachi no Rekishi, Korekara (Infectious Diseases and Our History and Future) “, Shimizu Shoin, 2018.
  4. IIJIMA, W., “Medical Reports Compiled by Chinese Maritime Customs as a Platform for Intellectual Exchanges on Infectious Diseases between Western and Local Medicines in Late Nineteenth-Century East Asia,” Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, no. 80, no. 2022, pp. 5-34. https://doi.org/10.24739/00007741
  5. Wataru Iijima. “Jishuku as a Japanese way for Anti-COVID-19: Some Basic Reflections,” Historical Social Research Supplement 33 (2021): 284-301. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.33.2021.2

Message

Although “wise men learn from history”, it is not easy. I believe that it is important to preserve the materials related to infectious diseases for future generations, and I also believe that this is one of the ways to control infectious diseases.

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