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（Last updated : 2025-05-30 22:01:15）　

YABU Kotaro

Department / Course College of Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences

Title / Position Associate Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Sociology

Academic background
1.	～2002/03	College of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2005/04～2010/03	│ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2003/04～2005/03	│ Ritsumeikan University

Business career
1.	2024/04/01 ～	Associate Professor │ College of Social Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2015/04 ～	Associate Professor │ Faculty of Sport Science │ Sendai University
3.	2012/04 ～ 2015/03	Lecturer │ Faculty of Sport Science │ Sendai University
4.	2011/04 ～ 2012/03	Part-time Lecturer │ Faculty of Sociology │ Kansai University
5.	2009/04 ～ 2012/03	Part-time Lecturer │ Faculty of Humanities │ Kyoto Seika University
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Research activities
1.		JAPAN SOCIETY OF SPORT ANTHROPOLOGY

Present specialized field

Books
1.	2021/10/01	Challenging Olympic Narratives : Japan, the Olympic Games and Tokyo 2020/21

Papers
1.	2024/05	“Ad Santel Is Coming to Town : The 1921 Yasukuni Shrine ‘MMA Fights’ between Catch Wrestling and Kōdōkan Judo │ INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT │ 41 (4),pp.355-373
2.	2021/03	The Duality of Consumption / Enlightenment and Its Acceptance as Physical Culture in Textbooks of Jiu-Jitsu: Through an investigation of Textbooks published in America at the turn of the last century │ Japan journal of the history of physical education and sport │ ,pp.25-40
3.	2020/03	" Socio-historical study on the correspondence education of martial arts : Focusing on the sales strategy of the Teikoku Shōbukai from the late Meiji to Taisho eras" │ Bulletin of Sendai University │ 51 (2),pp.1-11
4.	2018/09	“Did the Japanese Dream of Muscular Body?: Western Style of physical Training in the Meiji Era” │ Bulletin of Sendai University │ 50 (1),pp.1-9
5.	2018/07	Diffusion of Judo in the United States during the Russo-Japanese War: Aiming to overcome the ‘match-based historical view’ │ Martial Arts Studies │ (6),pp.41-51
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2019/12/19	Arts serving and challenging the 1964 Olympic Narrative : Arts in the 1964 Olympic Game
2.	2019/09/10	商品化した武道における啓蒙と営利の二面性前世紀転換期の国内外で出版された柔術教本とその消費的受容に着目して
3.	2019/02/20	Master Jiu-Jitsu at home!: Correspondence course in Budo by “Teikoku Shobu Kai” in early 20th century Japan
4.	2018/02/19	Did the Japanese dream of a muscular body? : Western style of physical training in the Meiji era
5.	2017/05/03	The Dissemination of Judo in Early Twentieth-Century America: The Mission and Struggles of a Pioneer Judoka
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Works
1.	2018/05/25	明治後期の身体鍛錬法ブーム：サンドウ式の受容とその変種

Winning science prize
1.	2022/12	The Japan Society of Sports History 2022年度スポーツ史学会賞
2.	2022/11	Suntory Foundation Suntory Prize for Social Science and Humanities

Achievements of joint.Funded research
1.	2019/04 ～ 2021/11	Challenging Olympic Narratives │ Other grants and subsidies │ Flemish Research Fund