LANNA Noemi

Noemi Lanna is associate professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Japan and Japan in the international system at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She holds a Master of Arts in Social Sciences (Hitotsubashi University) and a Ph.D. in Asian studies (University of Naples “L’Orientale”). She served as a postgraduate Monbukagakushō ­ fellow at Hitotsubashi University (1998-2000), a fellow at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003-4), adjunct professor for the postgraduate course “Expert in internationalization of enterprises with knowledge of Oriental Languages”, Italian Institute for International Commerce (2004-2011), Visiting professor of the KUPES Programme, Kobe University (2016), and visiting professor for the Erasmus staff mobility for teaching programme at Ruhr Universitat Bochum (2019) and University of Iceland (2024). Her research interests focus on international history of Asia and on modern and contemporary history of Japan.