On May 8th, Professor Qiao Linsheng, from Japan Institute and Research Centre for the History of Modern World of Nankai University , was invited to School of Foreign Languages . He conducted a lecture entitled ‘Warning on Japan's Nuclear Policy: From Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster’. The lecture was presided online by Associate Professor Lu Xueying, academic leader of the discipline of Japanese Language and Literature in School of Foreign Languages. More than 30 teachers and students participated in this lecture.
Combining his personal experience in the Great East Japan Earthquake with his own professional research findings, Professor Qiao used a large number of precious materials to examine the 80-year history of Japan's nuclear weapons program from its clandestine development during World War II to the use of nuclear energy in the 21st century. It is pointed out that Japan has adopted a special nuclear policy that combines ‘civilian’ and ‘military’ in the post-war period. It has become a comprehensive political system in which ‘nuclear power’ and ‘nuclear weapons’ are mutually exclusive. It is unique in that although it has superficially joined the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and advocates the three principles of peaceful use and non-nuclear weapons, but in reality, it relies more on the nuclear umbrella of the United States. On the surface, it has advocated relying on the nuclear umbrella of the United States, but in reality, it does not believe in the verbal commitment of the United States and has always pursued the production of its own nuclear weapons capability.
In recent years, while actively constructing the discipline of Foreign Language and Literature, School of Foreign Languages also focuses on giving full play to its multilingual advantages, and strives to build a comprehensive, in-depth and distinctive direction of country and regional studies, hoping to develop this direction into an academic institution integrating academic research, talent cultivation, policy consultation and international exchange. Through new materials and perspectives, Professor Qiao conducted this research and put forward the warning of history and reality, providing useful guidance and academic reference for the construction of International and Areas Studies to the college.
Professor Qiao Linsheng, is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor of Japan Institute and Research Centre for the History of Modern World in Nankai University . He is an executive director of both the Chinese Association For Japanese Studies and China Society of Japanese History and a member of Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia. After graduating from Nankai University with a PhD in 2004, Professor Qiao Linsheng stayed for teaching. Besides, he has studied and researched at Waseda University, the University of Tokyo, Nagoya University and Chuo University in Japan. His research directions include Japanese politics and diplomacy, East Asian international relations and Sino-Japanese relations. He is the author of 3 monographs and he co-authored 7 books. Besides, more than 50 papers have been published in World History, Modern Chinese History Studies, The Journal of International Studies, and Japanese Studies. His books and theses have won the first prize in the monograph category of the Sun Pinghua Academic Reward Fund for Japanese Studies, the first prize of the Fifteenth Outstanding Achievements in Social Sciences in Tianjin, the second prize of the Seventh Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities (Humanities and Social Sciences) Award of the Ministry of Education, and the first prize of the Thirteenth Outstanding Achievements in Social Sciences Award of Tianjin, and so on.
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