He studies the history of humanities and social sciences in modern and contemporary Japan, with a special interest in colonial scholarship and knowledge in colonial Korea. He recently published "L'organisation de l'archéologie antique en Corée coloniale (1902-1940): du terrain aux musées coloniaux" (Ebisu 52, 2015; http://ebisu.revues.org/1635), and "Ethnic Shows and Racial Hierarchies in Modern Japan" (Journal of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2015, 30).