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Franck Michelin

    Department of International Economy Professor
Contact： michelinmain.teikyo-u.ac.jp
Last Updated :2025/07/12

Researcher Information

Affiliation

    Department of International Economy Professor

Degree

  • Doctorat d'histoire contemporaine（Universite Paris-Sorbonne）
  • D.E.A. (M.A.S.), in History of modern French-Japanese international relations（National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilizations (INALCO)）
  • Master, History（Pantheon-Sorbonne University）

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J-Global ID

Research Interests

  • Modern History, War of Asia and the Pacific, World War II, Asian History, Pacific, Japanese History   

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / History - General
  • Humanities & social sciences / History - Japan / International relations, Asia, Modern history

Academic & Professional Experience

  • 2018/06 - Today  Académie des Sciences d’Outre-Mer1st SectionMember
  • 2017/04 - Today  Teikyo UniversityFaculty of Economics, Department of International EconomyProfessor (Full, tenured)
  • 2016 - Today  Maison franco-japonaise Japanese Studies Research Center (UMIFRE 19 - MFJ, MEAE-CNRS)Research Associate
  • 2015 - Today  Paris-Sorbonne University, Centre Roland Mousnier, Associate Researcher Researcher
  • 2015/09 - 2019/07  Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies Research fellow
  • 2010/04 - 2017/03  Meiji University Organization for International Collaboration Associate Professor
  • 2016/03 - 2016/04  Université de Montréal Centre d'études de l'Asie de l'Est Guest Professor
  • 2005 - 2009  French Embassy in Japan, Campus France, Tokyo office director Operations manager in charge of study abroad affairs
  • 2002 - 2008  Maison franco-japonaise, Tokyo Associate researcher
  • 2002/04 - 2005/03  University of Tsukuba Department of Comparative Cultures and Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences Assistant Professor in History, International Relations and Regional Studies (lessons in Japanese)

Education

  • 2012/09 - 2014/12  Université Paris-Sorbonne  Centre Roland Mousnier
  • 1996/10 - 2001/05  Rikkyō (Saint Paul) University  Graduate School of Humanities
  • 1998/10 - 2001/01  Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO)  Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in history of modern French-Japanese international relations
  • 1995/10 - 1996/09  Panthéon-Sorbonne University  Graduate School of Modern History

Association Memberships

  • Société japonaise de langue et littérature françaises   Société franco-japonaise des Études historiques   Association for Asian Studies   

Research Activity Information

Published Papers

Books etc

  • Hisahito du Japon : un fragile espoir. Entretien avec Franck Michelin (Hisahito of Japan: A Fragile Hope. Interview with Franck Michelin)
    (Others)Point de Vue, no 3994 2025/03
  • Rencontres impériales : l'Asie et la France — Le « moment Second Empire » (Imperial Encounters: Asia and France -–The "Second Empire moment")
    Franck MICHELIN (Contributor"Le Second Empire et l'édification d'une armée moderne au Japon" (French Second Empire and the Building of a Modern Army in Japan))Hémisphère Éditions / Maisonneuve & Larose nouvelles éditions 2023 9782377011629
  • La Seconde Guerre mondiale vue autrement
    MICHELIN, Franck (Contributor« La guerre du Pacifique : quand la grande guerre européenne devint une guerre mondiale »)Éditions Buchet-Chastel 2022 9782283034279
  • Michelin, Franck (Single work)Passés composés 2019 9782379330605 317 p.
  • De l’Indochine coloniale au Viet Nam actuel
    MICHELIN, Franck (Contributor« L’occupation du Vietnam par le Japon, point de départ de l’indépendance ? »)Académie des sciences d’Outre-Mer、Magellan & Cie 2017 9782350744469
  • Vietnam-Indochina-Japan’s relation during the Second World War Document and Interpretation (University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University Hanoi, 19 septembre 2015)
    MICHELIN, Franck (Contributor“The Pacific War started in Indochina: the Occupation of French Indochina and the Route to Pearl Harbor”)早稲田大学 2017
  • L’Océanie convoitée : Actes des colloques
    MICHELIN, Franck (Contributor« Le Japon et le Pacifique : histoire d’une relation complexe »)CNRS Éditions 2017 9782283034279
  • Encyclopédie de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
    MICHELIN, Franck (Contributor)2015
  • Indochine, des terres et des hommes, 1856-1956
    MICHELIN, Franck (ContributorL’opération Meigô : le coup de force japonais du 9 mars 1945 et l’élimination de l’armée française en Indochine »)Éditions Gallimard 2014 9782070142606
  • Miscellanies offered to Professor Suzuki Kōji
    MICHELIN, Franck (ContributorWorld War II and the Crisis of Franco-Japanese Relations : French Collapse and Japanese Southward Expansion)Faculty of Letters of Chūō University, 2004/04 107 133

Conference Activities & Talks

  • Dominique Barjo; Franck Michelin
    Conference organized on the occasion of the General Assembly of the International Committee of Historical Sciences: Crossings and Connections: East Asia and the World, c.1800-1945  2024/10  Teikyo University  International Committee of Historical Sciences
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  • Chinese rivalry and defense in Japan: the story of a power shift (Rivalité chinoise et défense au Japon : récit d'une passation de pouvoir)
    Franck Michelin
    Union des Français de l'Étranger  2024/06
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  • Kenkichi Yoshizawa and Japan's southward expansion: a diplomat at the crossroads of the Pacific War
    Franck MICHELIN
    Yoshizawa Kenkichi Memorial Society  2023/07  Jōetsu city
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  • Putin Regime's vision of history and Ukraine
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Extraordinary symposium: causes and consequences of the Russia-Ukraine conflict  2022/11
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  • L’Ukraine existe-t-elle ? L’histoire au secours de l’actualité (Does Ukraine exist? History to the rescue of current affairs)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Union des Français de l’Étranger  2022/03
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  • French Indochina and the Japanese Army, 1940-1941
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Japanese Society of Military History  2021/11
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  • L’occupation américaine, clé oubliée de l’histoire japonaise (The American occupation, the forgotten key to Japanese history)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    フランス語婦人会  2021/10
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  • MICHELIN, Franck
    Maison franco-japonaise  2021/07
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  • MICHELIN, Franck
    Maison franco-japonaise  2021/05
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  • MICHELIN, Franck
    Union des Français de l’Étranger  2021/02
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  • The Asia-Pacific War inside of the History of International Relations: Reconsidering the Question of the Japanese Occupation of French Indochina
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Japan Modern History Study Group (The University of Tokyo)  2020/09
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  • The collaboration between France and Japan during the Second Empire: an opportunistic alliance
    MICHELIN, Franck
    ICHS-CISH World History Congress 2020, Preconference, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (China)  2019/03
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  • S'adapter pour survivre. Le Japon de l'ère Meiji face au défi de l'Occident (To adapt to Survive. Meiji Japan in Front of the Challenge of the West)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Académie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer  2019/03
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  • Droit international et ordre mondial au Japon, 1853-1952 (International Law and World Order in Japan, 1853-1952)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Institut d'Études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence (Aix-en-Provence Institute of Political Studies)  2019/02
  • La réconciliation franco-allemande et la construction européenne (The Franco-German Reconciliation and E.U. Building)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Conférence organized by the French and German embassies in Japan at Sophia University (Tokyo) for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I, organizer, moderator and speaker  2018/11
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  • The birth of capitalist economy in the north of Japan and the role played by Shibusawa Eiichi
    MICHELIN, Franck
    World Economic History Congress, Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Session n° 300209 : Theory and Empirical Performance  2018/07
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  • The Japanese Invasion of Indochina, 1940-1941: Why the Pacific War Started in Indochina
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Association for Asian Studies, Annual Conference 2018, Washington DC, Session n° 285 : Examining the Impact of the Japanese Empire Around the South China Sea (co-organisateur, modérateur et intervenant),  2018/03
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  • “The Pacific War started in Indochina: the Occupation of French Indochina and the Route to Pearl Harbor”
    MICHELIN, Franck
    “International Symposium: Vietnam - Indochina - Japan relation during the World War II – Documents and Interpretations”, University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University Hanoi  2017/09
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  • Faire du Pacifique une forteresse : le projet avorté du Japon pendant la Guerre du Pacifique (Making the Pacific a fortress: the aborted plan of Japan during the Pacific War)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Faire du Pacifique une forteresse : le projet avorté du Japon pendant la Guerre du Pacifique (Making the Pacific a fortress: the aborted plan of Japan during the Pacific War)  2016/11
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  • La sphère de co-prospérité : réflexion sur un régionalisme asiatique (The sphere of coprosperity: reflection about a kind of Asian regionalism)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    International symposium for the 20 years of the ASEM: “European culture and Asian culture to the test of globalization”, Panthéon-Sorbonne University  2016/06
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  • L’occupation japonaise de l’Indochine et le déclenchement de la Guerre du Pacifique (The occupation of French Indochina and the Pacific War breakout)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris  2016/06
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  • Le procès de Tokyo et son héritage (The Tokyo trial and its heritage)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Université de Montréal, Research Center on Germany and Europe  2016/04
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  • L’Indochine française, l’expansion vers le sud et la Guerre du Pacifique (French Indochina, the Southward expansion and the Pacific War)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Université de Montréal, Interuniversity Group for Contemporary International Relations History (GIHRIC)  2016/03
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  • Un séisme dans les relations franco-japonaises : l’occupation de l’Indochine française, 1940-41 (An Earthquake inside of Franco-Japanese relations: the occupation of French Indochina, 1940-41)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Lecture given for the Shibusawa-Claudel Prize, Maison franco-japonaise  2016/01
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  • Le Japon en mer de Chine méridionale à l'aube de la guerre du Pacifique (Japan in the South China Sea on the Eve of the Pacific War)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    “La France et les espaces maritimes” (France and Maritime Areas), Table ronde HISTOIRE (Round table about History), University of South Brittany, Lorient  2015/10
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  • Le Japon dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale : d’une guerre européenne vers une guerre mondiale (Japan during World War II: from a European War to a World War)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Université de Bretagne-Sud (University of South Brittany), Lorient  2015/10
  • MICHELIN, Franck
    Université de Nantes  2015/10
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  • Un pont entre deux guerres : l’invasion de l’Indochine par le Japon, 1940-41 (A bridge between two wars: the Invasion of French Indochina by Japan, 1940-41)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies)  2015/10
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  • La politique économique du Japon vis-à-vis de l’Indochine, 1940-41 (The Japanese Economic Policy towards French Indochina, 1940-41)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Université Paris-Sorbonne, Centre Roland Mousnier  2015/10
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  • L’occupation du Vietnam par le Japon, point de départ de l’indépendance? (The occupation of Vietnam by Japan, starting point for the independence?)
    MICHELIN, Franck
    International symposium: De l’Indochine coloniale au Viet Nam actuel, Académie des Sciences d’Outre-Mer  2014/03
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  • Can Japan be satisfied with her relations with the USA and China?: about the history and future of the relations between Japan and Europe
    MICHELIN, Franck
    Keiō University  2008/01

Awards & Honors

  • 2015/11 Académie des Sciences d’Outre-Mer 1st edition of the Research Encouragement Prize of the Académie des Sciences d’Outre-Mer
     FRA international_academic_award 
    受賞者: MICHELIN, Franck
  • 2015/06 Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation Prix Shibusawa-Claudel, 32e edition (selection francaise)
     L'Indochine française et l'expansion vers le sud du Japon à l'oree de la guerre du Pacifique (these de doctorat en histoire contemporaine, soutenue à l'universite de Paris 4) international_academic_award 
    受賞者: MICHELIN, Franck

Research Grants & Projects

Teaching Experience

  • International Relations in East Asia and the PacificInternational Relations in East Asia and the Pacific Keio University, SFC
  • L’histoire du Japon en langue française (History of Japan in French)L’histoire du Japon en langue française (History of Japan in French) Athénée français
  • International Relations in AsiaInternational Relations in Asia Teikyo University
  • Japanese HistoryJapanese History Teikyo University
  • World Dimension (Europe)World Dimension (Europe) Teikyo University
  • History of International Relations (Diplomatic Relations)History of International Relations (Diplomatic Relations) Sophia University
  • Seminar on East AsiaSeminar on East Asia Teikyo University
  • History of international relations in modern East AsiaHistory of international relations in modern East Asia Sciences Po Lyon
  • Look at the history of the seas: from the odyssey of the Polynesians to the question of the Southern China SeaLook at the history of the seas: from the odyssey of the Polynesians to the question of the Southern China Sea The Toyo Bunko
  • Political and Economic Topics in EnglishPolitical and Economic Topics in English Teikyo University
  • Study on Europe (Introduction to the European Union)Study on Europe (Introduction to the European Union) Meiji University
  • Special Course: "History of international relations: the colonial times in East Asia, from the middle of the nineteenth century until todaySpecial Course: "History of international relations: the colonial times in East Asia, from the middle of the nineteenth century until today Meiji University
  • The encounter of France and Japan in East Asia : French Indochina and JapanThe encounter of France and Japan in East Asia : French Indochina and Japan The Toyo Bunko
  • Research on modern culture: "War in the twentieth century"Research on modern culture: "War in the twentieth century" University of Tsukuba
  • Special research topics on Europe: "French historiography"Special research topics on Europe: "French historiography" University of Tsukuba
  • Research on Asian cultures : "The Indochinese peninsula during the colonial time"Research on Asian cultures : "The Indochinese peninsula during the colonial time" University of Tsukuba

Social Contribution

  • Paris - France's 20th Century: Chanel and de Gaulle
    Date (from-to) : 2024/07/22
    Category : Media report
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : NHK Educational
    Event, Program, Title : 「村多江の、いまさらですが・・・人生１００年時代。大人になっても学びたい！」
  • The French Revolution and Two Painters: The Story of the Olympic Games
    Date (from-to) : 2024/06/24
    Category : Media report
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : NHK Educational
    Event, Program, Title : 「村多江の、いまさらですが・・・人生１００年時代。大人になっても学びたい！」
  • Date (from-to) : 2024/02/22
    Category : Media report
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : Radio, France Culture
  • Date (from-to) : 2022/04/08
    Category : Media report
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : Abema TV (internet TV, Asahi TV group)
    Event, Program, Title : Abema Prime

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