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TAKASHIMA Ko is a Professor at the Faculty of Sport Sciences and Graduate School of Sport Sciences, Kyoto University, specializing in the historical intersections of sports, military, and cultural studies in Asia and Africa. His work spans gender dynamics, YMCA influence, and transnational networks in East Asian history.
- Degree: Doctorate from Kyoto University.
Research focuses on Sports History, Military Masculinity, and Gender Studies in Asia. He explores how sports served as tools for colonial diplomacy (e.g., Sino-Japanese relations via sports exchanges) and nationalist identity (e.g., Japanese military sports culture). His studies also address physical culture in late Qing military reforms and YMCA's role in shaping modern sports terminology and institutions.
Recent publications emphasize transnational sports networks (Philippine carnivals to Far Eastern Olympics), gendered social movements (1920s Chinese women's haircut campaigns), and state-military-sports dynamics (1940 Tokyo Olympics' wartime symbolism). His work bridges colonial history, cultural translation, and institutional development in East Asia.
Advising activities are not explicitly detailed, but his grants include multiple JSPS projects on Imperial Japan's sports networks (2018–2023), military-sports comparative history (2014–2017), and gender order in China (2013–2016). He collaborates internationally, with fieldwork in Korea and China, and contributes to edited volumes like 帝国日本と越境するアスリート and スポーツからみる東アジア史.
