The Kizuna India Japan Study Forum (KIJSF) is aimed at promoting the study of under-researched aspects of India-Japan historical and cultural interactions by holding lectures on a monthly basis. This will open avenues for all young and old researchers/scholars to share and exchange their work encapsulating rich history and contacts between the two countries in trade, business, economic, cultural, philosophical spheres. This would not only enhance mutual understanding but also strengthen the foundations of rapidly expanding multifaceted cooperation between the two countries.
Hiromu Nagashima is Professor Emeritus of University of Nagasaki. He did his Masters (i) in 1973 from Aligarh Muslim University, majoring in Medieval Indian History, and again (ii) in 1974 from Kyoto University. Left the Doctor’s Course of Graduate School of Kyoto University, after studying for the prescribed three years and obtaining the prescribed study (March 1977). His publications include: Bania Merchants under the Mughal Empire: A case study of those of Surat city in The Tooyoshi-Kenkyu (The Journal of Oriental History), Vol. Vol.40, No.4, 1982, pp.85-118 [Japanese], On the “Mouru” Language in the Yakushichotanwa: An aspect of Japanese Knowledge on India in the Tokugawa era, Nagasaki Kenritsu Kokusai Keizai Daigaku Ronshu (Journal of Liberal Arts and Economics), Vol. 19, No.4, 1986, pp.133-168, [Japanese], and Persian Muslim Merchants in Thailand and their Activities in the 17th Century: Especially on their visits to Japan, Nagasaki Kenritsu Kokusai Keizai Daigaku Ronshu (Journal of Liberal Arts and Economics), Vol.30, No.3, 1997, pp.387-399 [English]. Also Surat and Nagasaki: a comparison of two international port cities in the seventeenth century, in Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada (eds.), Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World : across sea and land, published in 2023 from Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 56-74.