Oliviero Frattolillo

Oliviero Frattolillo is Professor of History and Institutions of Asia at the Roma Tre University.

Born and bred in Napoli, Italy, he studied at the University of Naples L’Orientale – where he received a Ph.D. in Modern Japanese History in 2004 -, United Nations University in Tokyo, and at Okinawa University. He is Professor of East Asian history at the department of Political Sciences, Roma Tre University in Rome and Associate at the France-Japan Foundation (EHESS, Paris). He is the Scientific Coordinator of the section “European and International Studies” for the Doctorate in Political Science at Roma Tre University.

He is the author of A Cultural History of Postwar Japan. Rethinking Kasutori Society (Routledge, 2024), Reassessing Japan’s Cold War. Ikeda Hayato’s Foreign Politics and Proactivism During the 1960s (Routledge, 2020), Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations. From the Cold War to the Post-Bipolar Era (Routledge, 2013), Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest (“Japan between East and West”, Milan, 2014 – in Italian), Watsuji Tetsurō e l’etica dell’interessere (“Watsuji Tetsurō and the Ethics of the In-between”, Milan, 2013 – in Italian), Interwar Japan Beyond the West. The Search for a New Subjectivity in World History (Cambridge Scholars, 2012), Pellegrinaggio alle antiche chiese d’Italia (Palermo, 2005 – edited translation into Italian of Watsuji Tetsurō’s Itaria koji junrei, 1935), and co-editor with Antony Best of Japan and the Great War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). He is the co-editor with Hosoya Yuichi and Antony Best of the book series “New Directions in East Asian History” (Palgrave Macmillan, Shanghai).

He is Visiting Professor at the History Department, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Law, Keio University, Tokyo.