Dr. Motokazu Matsutani is a Visiting Associate Professor from Tohoku Gakuin University. Dr. Matsutani’s visit to UBC is from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023 with supervisor Hyung Gu Lynn.

His research interest is modern history of Korea and Japan with a special focus on: the development of the Christian Church as a socio-political force and the changing dynamics of church and state; complex interrelationships between western missionaries and local Christian intellectuals; the significance of the Japanese Church and its Christian intellectuals in Japanese Empire.

Dr. Matsutani’s major publications in English include “US Occupation Policy on Shinto in Postliberation Korea and Japan,” Belief and Practice in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea (Springer Singapore, 2017) “An Attempt to Integrate the Korean Family with the Japanese — A New Perspective on the ‘Name-Changing Policy’ in Korea,” Gender and Law in Japanese Imperium (University of Hawai’i Press, 2014), and “Church over Nation: Christian missionaries and Korean Christians in Colonial Korea” (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 2012); In Japanese,『民族を超える教会』（明石書店、2020年）、［Church over Nation］「三・一運動における「キリスト教徒」と「教会」」『歴史評論』第827号（2019年3月号）［”Christians” and “the Church” in the March First Movement］「朝鮮総督府のキリスト教政策 （未公開資料 朝鮮総督府関係者録音記録(17) 朝鮮総督府のキリスト教政策)」『東洋文化研究 (18)』2016年［Korean Government-General’s policy on Christianity］、「押川方義と朝鮮の関係史序説 : 朝鮮伝道計画から大日本海外教育会へ」『東北学院史資料センター年報 ［1］』2016年［Oshikawa Masayoshi and Korea—from mission to education］.

Besides being a native from Fukushima and still a local resident there, he had published several articles in the Korean language on the Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011 and its impact on the local society. He intends to inform the neighboring Korean citizens of the local situation and a resident’s perspective. Those publications are “원전사고 10년 후의 후쿠시마에서 생각하는 ｢코로나｣와 ｢올림픽｣” 일본학보 제129권( 2021년11월), ［10 years after the nuclear disaster —critiquing of the COVID pandemic and Tokyo Olympic Games from a Fukushima resident’s perspective］, “2020년, 후쿠시마에서 코로나 재해를 생각한다” 일본비평 (2020년, 제23호)［“Fukushima’s perspective on COVID-19 in 2020”］、후쿠시마 원전 사고, 그 후 한일의 미래를 위한 당사자의 관찰』［서울대학교 일본연구소 Reading Japan 29］（제이앤씨、2019년 ）［Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Its Impacts on Japan-Korean Relations－ A local perspective］.