most recent book: "A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People"--a comprehensive survey of the history of nationalism in modern Japan that draws heavily on primary, Japanese sources (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2007).


current research: Catholic thought in modern Japan, with an emphasis on the literature of Sono Ayako, the philosophy of Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko, and the natural law theory of Tanaka Kotaro.