Shchepkin Vasilii V.

Education:

• 2007-2010: Ph.D. in History, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences. PhD Dissertation: «Hayashi Shihei’s Kaikoku Heidan in political and military thought of early modern Japan (1603-1867)».
• 2002-2007: Specialist in Linguistics and Translation Studies, Faculty of Oriental Languages, Irkutsk State Linguistic University. Diploma: “Specifics in translation of fiction from Japanese into Russian (on the base of Tsutsui Yasutaka’s ‘Millionaire detective’)”.

Professional positions:

• Current: Senior Researcher, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences; Assistant Lecturer, Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Saint-Petersburg State University.
• 2013-2016: Researcher, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences.
• 2013-2014: Visiting Researcher, Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University.
• 2010-2013: Junior Researcher, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Awards and honors:

• Association of Japanologists Prize for the best publication on Japan by young researchers (2012).
• Saint Petersburg Government Prize for Young Researchers and Young Candidates in Sciences (2017).

Professional activities:

• European Association for Japanese Resources Specialists, member (from 2015).
• Association for Asian Studies (from 2016).
• European Association for Japanese Studies (from 2017).

Languages:

• Russian (native),
• Japanese (fluent),
• English (fluent),
• French (reading).

Research interests:

• History of Russia-Japan relations, history of early modern Japan,
• Japanese manuscripts and woodblock printed books,
• Japanese collections in Saint-Petersburg,
• History and culture of Ainu.

Courses taught:

• History of Russia-Japan relations
• Japanese language

Publications:

• Shchepkin V. The Manuscript Nijūgokoku chūka chikyū no zu (“Pictures of the Peoples of Twenty Five Countries with Maps of China and the World”) in the IOM, RAS Collection // Written Monuments of the Orient. 1(3), 2016. P. 3–20 // Written Monuments of the Orient. 1(3), 2016. P. 106–110.