Academic Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Academic Rank:

Position: Professor of the Slavic and Eurasian research Center (2006); President of the Japanese society of studying of Central Asia; The associated member of council of science of Japan.

Affiliation: Hokkaido University (Japan, Sapporo).

Contact Data:

Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University Kita-9, Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo

060-0809, Japan.

http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.html

General Information:

Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions

Graduated from the Russian office of general education faculty of the University of Tokyo in 1991, finished a postgraduate study of the same university in 1993 and studied in doctoral studies of the same university in 1993-1996. Trained on department of history of Moscow State University in 1989–1990 on a grant of the government of the USSR.

Education and Training:

Employment History:

Key Disciplines Taught:

Research Interests: history and policy of the countries of Central Asia; comparative policy and international relations; comparative history of empires and colonies

List of Most Essential Works:

Monographs:

Modern Central Asia: policy, economy, society / Ed. by T Uyama, M. Hivatari. Tokyo, 2018. 301 p. (in Jap.).

Comparing Modern Empires: Imperial Rule and Decolonization in the Changing World Order (Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, 2018), 235 p. (in English)

National and international aspects of the Russian revolution / Ed. by T Uyama. Tokyo, 2017. 338 p. (in Jap.).

Empires of Eurasia of modern times and modern world / Ed. by T Uyama. Tokyo, 2016. 278 p. (in Jap.).

60 chapters about Kazakhstan / Ed. by T Uyama, T. Fudjimoto. Tokyo, 2015. 384 p. (in Jap.).

Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts / Ed. by T. Uyama. London, 2012), 311 p. (in English)

Empire and After: Essays in Comparative Imperial and Decolonization Studies / Ed. by T. Uyama. Sapporo, 2012. 133 p. (in English)

World of Eurasia. Vol 1. East and West / Ed. by T. Uyama, N. Siokawa etc. Tokyo, 2012. 265 p. (in Jap.).

Japan’s Silk Road Diplomacy: Paving the Road Ahead / Ed. C. Len, T. Uyama Washington, D.C., Stockholm, 2008. 206 p. (in English; Japanese version also available);

Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia / Ed. T. Uyama. Sapporo, 2007. 385 p. (in English).

Encyclopedia of the Central Eurasia / Ed. by Kh. Komatsu, T. Uyama, etc. Tokyo, 2005. 654 p. (in Jap.).

Modern Central Asia: changes in policy and economy / Ed. by I. Iwasaki, T. Uyama etc. Tokyo, 2004. 322 p. (in Jap.).

60 chapters about Central Asia / Ed. T. Uyama. Tokyo, 2003. 317 p.

Central Asia: history and present. Tokyo, 2000. 63 p.

Kazakh-Japanese phrasebook / Yo. Yanagaua, T. Uyama etc. Алматы, 1995. 104 с. (in Kazakh, in Jap.).

Articles:

Political strategy of Alash-Ordy during civil war: comparison with national and cultural autonomy of Turk-Tatar // Personality, society and the power in the history of Russia: collection of scientific articles devoted to the 70 anniversary of the Dr. of history,  prof. V.I. Shishkin. Novosibirsk, 2018. Pp. 260–271. (in Russian).

Evolution of the idea of the Autonomy of Alash on a wave of the all-Russian political events to and during the revolution // From Alash to independence and national consolidation of Kazakhstan.Oral, 2017. Pp. 315–325. (in Russian).

Evolution of authoritarianism and crisis of democracy: changes of political values and fluctuation of a world order // Behind smashing of an order: prospects of the Pacific paradigm / Ed. by Yu. Murakami and Ch. Obiya. Kyoto, 2017. Pp. 35–56. (in Jap.).

Why the large revolt took place only in Central Asia? Administrative and institutional prerequisites of a revolt of 1916 // Reconsideration of a revolt of 1916 in Central Asia. Bishkek, 2017. Pp. 104–112. (in Russian).

The revolt which is given rise in war: influence of World War I on a cataclysm in Central Asia in the international context // The Turkestan revolt of 1916: facts and interpretations. M., 2016. Pp. 77–86. (in Russian).

“Repression of Kazakh Intellectuals as a Sign of Weakness of Russian Imperial Rule: The Paradoxical Impact of Governor A.N. Troinitskii on the Kazakh National Movement,” Cahiers du Monde russe 56, no. 4 (2016), pp. 681–703. (in English).

Reactions of the countries of Central Asia to changes of an international situation: political and military influence of Russia and economic expansion of China // International issues. No. 647. 2015. Page 16-27. (in Jap.).

“The Contribution of Central Eurasian Studies to Russian and (Post-)Soviet Studies and Beyond,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 16, No. 2. 2015. pp. 331–344. (in English).

To new development of studying of authoritarian regimes in terms of regional studies on the former Soviet Union // Comparative policy of change (or lack of change) systems / Under the editorship of. Japanese society of comparative political science. 2014. Pp. 1–25. (in Jap.).

“The Changing Religious Orientation of Qazaq Intellectuals in the Tsarist Period: Sharī‘a, Secularism, and Ethics,” in Niccolò Pianciola and Paolo Sartori, eds., Islam, Society and States across the Qazaq Steppe. Wien, 2013, pp. 95–118. (in English).

“The Alash Orda’s Relations with Siberia, the Urals and Turkestan: The Kazakh National Movement and the Russian Imperial Legacy,” in Uyama Tomohiko, ed., Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts. London, 2012. pp. 271–287. (in English).

Civil war and world in Tajikistan // World Geography. Vol. 5. Central Asia / Ed. by Ch. Obiya etc. Tokyo, 2012. Pp. 285–296. (in Jap.).

Jute in Kazakhstan: written sources and climatic data (the middle of the 19th century — 1920 // Environment History in the Central Eurasia. Vol. 1 / Ed.by Narama. Kyoto, 2012. Pp. 240–258. (in Jap.).

Perception of an international situation of the beginning of the 20th century by A. Bukeykhan and his contemporaries // Алаш мұраты және тәуелсіз Қазақстан. Astana, 2011. Pp. 13–19. (in Russian).

“The Roles of Small Regions in Intercultural Relations and Conflicts: The Bökey Horde, Gorno-Badakhshan and Abkhazia,” in Anita Sengupta and Suchandana Chatterjee, eds., Eurasian Perspectives: In Search of Alternatives. Delhi, 2010. Pp. 64–77. (in English).

Views of the Kazakh intellectuals of court bij, the Russian court and Sharia (the end of XIX — the beginning of the 20th centuries) // Ancient world of law of Kazakhs: materials, documents and researches in 10 volumes. T. 10. Almaty, 2009. Pp. 296–301. (in Russian).

Central Asia and Russia after the Georgian war: negotiation abilities of the small countries in international policy // Gendai Shiso (A modern thought) March, 2009. Pp. 206–217. (in Jap.).

Whether there was an Islamic alternative? The place of Islam in the national movement of Kazakhs of the beginning of the 20th century // Shygys. 2008. No. 2. Pp. 143–148. (into Russian language).

19. “Japan’s Diplomacy towards Central Asia in the Context of Japan’s Asian Diplomacy and Japan-U.S. Relations,” in Christopher Len, Uyama Tomohiko et al., eds., Japan’s Silk Road Diplomacy: Paving the Road Ahead. Washington, D.C., Stockholm, 2008. Pp. 101–120. (in English; Japanese version also available).

“A Particularist Empire: The Russian Policies of Christianization and Military Conscription in Central Asia,” in Uyama Tomohiko, ed., Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia (Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, 2007), pp. 23–63. (in English; Japanese version also available).

Revolution in Kyrgyzstan: amorphous elite and mobilization of social networks // Comparative analysis of "colored revolutions" in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. Sapporo, 2006. Pp. 41–77. (in Jap.).

Creation of national stories in Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union: its specialty, the present and universality // the State and nationalism in the Muslim world / Ed. by K. Sakay and A. Usuki. Tokyo, 2005. Pp. 55–78. (in Jap.).

Views of imperial generals of nomads and their eagerness to fight (Concerning the unrealized plan about formation of horse militia in Turkestan) // Urbanization and a nomadizm in Central Asia. Almaty, 2004. Pp. 194–209. (in Russian).

24. “A Strategic Alliance between Kazakh Intellectuals and Russian Administrators: Imagined Communities in Dala Walayatïnïng Gazetí (1888–1902),” in Hayashi Tadayuki, ed., The Construction and Deconstruction of National Histories in Slavic Eurasia. Sapporo, 2003. Pp. 237–259. (in English).

“Japanese Policy in Relation to Kazakhstan: Is There a ‘Strategy’?” in Robert Legvold, ed., Thinking Strategically: The Major Powers, Kazakhstan, and the Central Asian Nexus. Cambridge MA, 2003. Pp. 165–186. (in English; Russian version also available).

“Why Are Social Protest Movements Weak in Central Asia? Relations between the State and People in the Era of Nation-Building and Globalization,” in Sakai Keiko, ed., Social Protests and Nation-Building in the Middle East and Central Asia. Chiba, 2003. Pp. 47–56. (in English).

“From ‘Bulgharism’ through ‘Marrism’ to Nationalist Myths: Discourses on the Tatar, the Chuvash and the Bashkir Ethnogenesis,” Acta Slavica Iaponica, 19. 2002, Pp. 163–190. (in English; Russian version also available).

“Two Attempts at Building a Qazaq State: The Revolt of 1916 and the Alash Movement,” in Stéphane A. Dudoignon and Komatsu Hisao, eds., Islam in Politics in Russia and Central Asia. London, 2001. Pp. 77–98. (in English).

“The Kazak Intelligentsia at the Crossroads of Three Civilizations,” in Timur Kocaoglu, ed., Reform Movements and Revolutions in Turkistan (1900–1924): Studies in Honour of Osman Khoja. Haarlem, 2001. Pp. 393–401. (in English).

“The Geography of Civilizations: A Spatial Analysis of the Kazakh Intelligentsia’s Activities, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century,” in Matsuzato Kimitaka, ed., Regions: A Prism to View the Slavic-Eurasian World. Sapporo, 2000. Pp. 70–99. (in English).

Reconsideration of ethnic history of Kazakhs // Chiiki Kenkyu Ronshu (Regional studies), Vol. 2, No. 1. 1999. Pp. 85–116. (in Jap. with a summary in Russian).

Outlook of the Kazakh intellectuals at the beginning of the XX century: About the book Dulatov's World Yaqub, Wake up, the Kazakh! // Suravu Kenkyu (Slavic researches), Vol. 44. 1997. Pp. 1–36. (in Jap. with a summary in Russian).

Political system of Kazakhstan. Roshia Kenkyu (Russian researches), Vol. 23, 1996. Pp. 91–109. (in Jap.).

The interethnic relations in Kazakhstan, 1986–1993 // Kokusai Seiji (International policy), Vol. 104. 1993. Pp. 117–135. (in Jap.).