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MIZOGUCHI KOJI
 
Organization
Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies Department of Environmental Changes Professor
The Kyushu University Museum （Concurrent）
Advanced Asian Archaeology Research Center(QA3RC) （Concurrent）
School of Letters Department of Humanities（Concurrent）
School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation Department of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation（Concurrent）
Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Global Society Department of Integrated Sciences for Global Society（Concurrent）
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Professor
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News: (April, 2023) I have been appointed a Vice-president of ICOMOS Japan (https://icomosjapan.org/icomosjp/) News: (April, 2019) I have been appointed a board member of ICOMOS Japan (https://icomosjapan.org/icomosjp.php) News: (2 September, 2016) I have been re-elected the President of the World Archaeological Congress at the Plenary of WAC-8 Kyoto 2016. News: (23 May, 2015) I was awarded 5th Gand Prize of the Japanese Archaeological Association for Mizoguchi, Koji. 2013. The Archaeology of Japan: from the earliest rice farming villages to the rise of the state. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. （http://archaeology.jp/about/award/award5recip.htm） News: Solicited article 'A Future of Archaeology' will be published in Antiquity, Issue 343 (February 2015) as the inaugural article of the series 'Archaeological Futures' (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9543494&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0003598X14000398) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2014.39 News: I have been elected the 6th president of World Archaeological Congress (WAC), January, 2013 My mission in teaching and conducting research activities at Kyushu University is as follows: 1. Educating students as to how to excavate, record, and make sense of the material culture of the past by referring to very latest outcomes of international theoretical and methodological discussions. 2. Teaching students the "contextuality" of doing archaeology as a profession in contemporary world in which the past is given increasingly significant social, cultural, and political meanings. 3. Training students to enable themselves to deliver academic presentations in international meetings and contribute their articles to international journals in English. 4. Internationalising Japanese archaeology through education (see above) and writing and presenting in English as much as possible. I have been elected a fellow of Society of Antiquaries of London on 19 June, 2008 I have been elected the 6th president of World Archaeological Congress (WAC), January, 2013 The outcomes so far include: "An Archaeological History of Japan: 30.000 BC to AD 700". Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. "Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521849535) "The Archaeology of Japan: from the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State". Cambridge University Press, in press, Due our August 2013 "Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan". In "A Companion to Social Archaeology" (eds. by L. Meskell and R. Preucel), pp. 396-414. Oxford: Blackwell. Mizoguchi, K. 2009. Nodes and edges: A network approach to hierarchisation and state formation in Japan. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Vol.28-1: 14-26. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WH6-4VDGTN9-1&_user=131115&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000009658&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=131115&md5=62ff3764fece3e55e55c4b02c53e360d)
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Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Archaeology

Degree

  • Ph.D. (University of Cambridge, U.K.)

Research History

  • Kyushu University Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Department of Environmental Changes  Associate Professor 

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Education

  • University of Cambridge   Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology   Department of Archaeology

    - 1994

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    Country：United Kingdom

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  • ケンブリッジ大学大学院   考古人類学部   考古学科

    - 1994

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    Country：United Kingdom

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Research Interests・Research Keywords

  • Research theme： 考古学

    Keyword： 考古学

    Research period： 2024

  • Research theme： 社会考古学

    Keyword： 社会考古学

    Research period： 2024

  • Research theme： Social archaeology

    Keyword： Social archaeology

    Research period： 2024

  • Research theme： The long-term transformation of material culture as seen from social systems theory perspectives

    Keyword： Material culture, long-term transformation, communication, cosil systems

    Research period： 2016.9 - 2020.7

  • Research theme： An application of social network theory and allied methods to the comparative study of the emergence and the development of social complexity

    Keyword： social network analysis, social systems theory, complexity, state formation, Japan, Europe

    Research period： 2008.3

  • Research theme： An archeologcial study of the transformation of the conception of time and temporality

    Keyword： time, temporality, scheduling, cyclical time, linear time, archaeology, social archaeology, prehistory

    Research period： 2004.1

  • Research theme： The disciplinisation of archaeology and the formation of Modern institutions

    Keyword： modernity, disiciplinisation of scientific subjects, archaeology, nation-state, ethnicity

    Research period： 1998.1

Awards

  • 第５回日本考古学協会賞大賞

    2015.6   日本考古学協会   The Grand Prize of the 5th Japanese Archaeological Association Prize is given to: Mizoguchi, Koji. 2013. The Archaeology of Japan: from the earliest rice farming villages to the rise of the state. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • 第８回九州考古学会賞

    2014.11   九州考古学会   8th Kyushu Archaeological Society Award

  • 第３回日本学術振興会賞

    2006.12   日本学術振興会   3rd Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize (JSPS Prize) for "Theoretical and Methodological Development of Social Archaeology and Its Applications"

Papers

  • Making Sense of the Transformation of Religious Practices: A Critical Long-term Perspective from Pre- and Proto-historic Japan Reviewed International journal

    MIZOGUCHI, Koji

    Cambridge Archaeological Journal   32 ( 1 )   153 - 172   2021.6   （ ISSN:0959-7743 eISSN:1474-0540 ）

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Cambridge Archaeological Journal  

    This paper proposes a novel procedural framework for the archaeological study of the long-term transformation of religious practices by heuristically defining the religious in terms of their functional-effective elements. Thus, religious activities constitute a distinct communicative domain that responds to and processes the uncertainties and risks of the world. Drawing on this re-definition, this paper proposes a procedure comprising the following units of investigation: (A) what uncertainties and risks of the world were generated in and differentiated by a certain social formation; (B) how were they responded to and processed; and (C) how is the mode of the responding and processing changed as social formations are transformed? The applicability of this procedure is examined through a case study from the pre- and proto-historic periods of the Japanese archipelago. It is hoped that the framework reintroduces causally explanatory, comparative and long-term perspectives to the archaeological study of religious practices.

    DOI： 10.1017/S0959774321000366

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    Other Link： https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/making-sense-of-the-transformation-of-religious-practices-a-critical-longterm-perspective-from-pre-and-protohistoric-japan/1F8CDF546E82771651581603D6DEE9C3

    Repository Public URL： http://hdl.handle.net/2324/4481607

  • Making Sense of Material Culture Transformation: A Critical Long-Term Perspective from Jomon- and Yayoi-Period Japan Reviewed International journal

    MIZOGUCHI, Koji

    Journal of World Prehistory   2020.3

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    This JWP Focus paper argues that material culture transformation can be understood as the transformation of the way human beings and material culture mutually open up their potentialities. Such opening up/becoming takes place in the domains of their encounter, which often take the form of human communications. In communication, human beings and material culture mutually mediate/intervene/transform their modes of existence as the former cope with various uncertainties and risks that the world generates and that communication differentiates. Drawing upon the theory of communication developed by the social systems theorist, Niklas Luhmann, the paper will elucidate and elaborate this perspective through an examination of the long-term transformation of the mode of such mutual opening up/becoming by human beings and the material culture of their potentialities that took place in the Jomon and the Yayoi periods of Japan between 13000 Cal BC and AD 250/300.

    DOI： https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-020-09138-0

    Other Link： https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10963-020-09138-0

    Repository Public URL： http://hdl.handle.net/2324/2740935

  • Re-thinking the origin of agriculture through the‘beginnings’ in the Japanese archipelago Invited Reviewed International journal

    Mizoguchi, Koji

    JAPANESE JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY   6 ( 2 )   95 - 107   2019.3

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    The way in which we investigate the origin of something is largely determined by the way we intend to understand it. In the case of the origin of agriculture, the situation is further complicated by the tone of the investigation, which is not only determined by how we define and understand the set of human activities characterised and described as agriculture but also influenced by the way in which we define and understand those other beginnings we believe were causally linked to the development of agriculture, that are, the development of complexity, the beginning and spread of language and ethnic groups, and so on. The investigation of the beginning of agriculture in Japan offers us some good cases which show that the uncritical coupling of agriculture with those beginnings not only are erroneous but also hinder the development of nuanced approaches to human-plant/animal interactions and their impact on human society. This paper illustrates those problems by studying Jomon food procurement activities and proposes a way to overcome the problems by introducing the concept of the spatio-temporal organisation of social life and by linking hunting, gathering and farming practices to the spatio-temporal organisations of Jomon and Yayoi social life.

    Other Link： http://www.jjarchaeology.jp/contents/pdf/vol006/6-2_095.pdf

    Repository Public URL： http://hdl.handle.net/2324/2244106

  • The Anyang Xibeigang Shang royal tombs revisited: a social archaeological approach Reviewed International journal

    Mizoguchi, Koji, @Uchida, Junko

    Antiquity   ( 362 )   709 - 723   2018.5

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    The Shang Dynasty has attracted much archaeological research, particularly the renowned ‘royal tombs’ of the Xibeigang cemetery at Anyang Yinxu, the last Shang capital. Understanding of the social strategies informing Shang mortuary practices is, however, very limited. A new reconstruction of the detailed chronology of the cemetery is presented here, allowing social theory to be applied, and reveals the strategic social decisions behind the placement of the tombs in relation to each other. The results of this analysis are important not only for the reconstruction of the social structure and organisation of the late Shang dynasty, but also for understanding the relationship between mortuary practices and the functioning of early states in other regions.

    DOI： https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.19

    Other Link： https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.19

    Repository Public URL： http://hdl.handle.net/2324/2244064

  • 弥生時代の〈神話〉 : いわゆる「連作四銅鐸」の分析から Reviewed International journal

    溝口孝司

    考古学研究   64 ( 4 )   61 - 81   2018.3

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Books

  • Encyclopedia of Archaeology (Second Edition) (pp. 72-83 'Post-processual Archaeology)

    Koji MIZOGUCHI（Role：Sole author）

    Academic Press  2023.11 

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    Language：English   Book type：Scholarly book

    This entry situates post-processual archaeology in the discursive space of contemporary society and analytically describes its constitutive characteristics as the consequences of shifts from the Modern to the Late-/Post-modern epistemic-ontological horizon. I describe how these shifts were implemented as concrete archaeological practices and examine the intended/unintended consequences generated by them. Then, I investigate how the post-processual movement impacted the ways in which archaeology is practiced in different parts of the world. The entry concludes by evaluating the impact of the inception of post-processual archaeology/archaeologies on Archaeology generally and considering what the future holds for archaeology after it.

    DOI： https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00184-1

    Other Link： https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780323907996001841

  • 'The Communicative-Cognitive Mode of Existence and Material Differences: An Archaeological-Theoretical Perspective' In The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology (eds. by T. Wynn, K. Overmann, and F. Cooldge), pp. C36S1–C36P88

    Koji MIZOGUCHI（Role：Joint author）

    Oxford University Press  2023.6 

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    This chapter shows that the smallest and the most basic phenomenal unit of society is communication, where sociality is generated through the mutual coordination by those who interact/communicate their thoughts and acts. For communication as a system, human individuals and their mind/psychic systems constitute the environment of its reproduction. The material differences that can be recognized archaeologically are involved in and mediate the reproduction of the communication system. This means that material differences are linked with the operation of human cognitive systems through the mediation of communication systems and through the structural coupling of cognitive and communication systems. To solve the innate inaccessibility of the operation of cognitive systems, the concept of mode of existence is proposed. This is the mode in which the communication system and the mind/psychic system are structurally coupled: The communication system and the mind/psychic system mutually irritate each other and react to it in uniquely self-referential manners, respectively.

    DOI： https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192895950.013.36

    Other Link： https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/41984/chapter/406551854

  • 'The Communicative-Cognitive Mode of Existence and Material Differences: An Archaeological-Theoretical Perspective' In The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology (eds. by T. Wynn, K. Overmann, and F. Cooldge), pp. C36S1–C36P88

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    Oxford University Press  2023.6 

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    This chapter shows that the smallest and the most basic phenomenal unit of society is communication, where sociality is generated through the mutual coordination by those who interact/communicate their thoughts and acts. For communication as a system, human individuals and their mind/psychic systems constitute the environment of its reproduction. The material differences that can be recognized archaeologically are involved in and mediate the reproduction of the communication system. This means that material differences are linked with the operation of human cognitive systems through the mediation of communication systems and through the structural coupling of cognitive and communication systems. To solve the innate inaccessibility of the operation of cognitive systems, the concept of mode of existence is proposed. This is the mode in which the communication system and the mind/psychic system are structurally coupled: The communication system and the mind/psychic system mutually irritate each other and react to it in uniquely self-referential manners, respectively.

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  • 社会考古学講義：　コミュニケーションを分析最小基本単位とする考古学の再編

    溝口孝司（Role：Sole author）

    同成社  2022.12 

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    考古学とは何か。考古学における「人」「モノ」とは何なのか。コミュニケーションを基軸に考古資料と社会システムを考察。著者が目指す社会考古学の実践理論を体系的に提示した、待望の一書。（同成社帯）

  • 社会考古学講義： コミュニケーションを分析最小基本単位とする考古学の再編

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    同成社  2022.12 

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    考古学とは何か。考古学における「人」「モノ」とは何なのか。コミュニケーションを基軸に考古資料と社会システムを考察。著者が目指す社会考古学の実践理論を体系的に提示した、待望の一書。（同成社帯）

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Presentations

  • Changing Reality and the Remembrance of the Dead International conference

    Koji MIZOGUCHI

    23rd International Congress of Historical Sciences  2022.8 

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    Event date： 2023.8

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Poznan   Country：Poland  

    Other Link： https://ichs2020poznan.pl/en/paper/changing-reality-and-the-remembrance-of-the-dead/

  • The formation of complex societies seen from religious practices and the concept of ‘axiality’ International conference

    Koji MIZOGUCHI

    日本考古学協会第88回総会  2022.5 

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    Event date： 2022.5

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：東京   Country：Japan  

  • The formation of complex societies seen from religious practices and the concept of ‘axiality’ International conference

    Koji MIZOGUCHI

    日本考古学協会第88回総会  2022.5 

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    Language：English  

    Venue：東京   Country：Japan  

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  • THE FORMATION OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES AS SEEN FROM RELIGIOUS PRACTICES International conference

    Koji MIZOGUCHI

    European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting Kiel 2021  2021.9 

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    Event date： 2021.9 - 2022.9

    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Kiel   Country：Germany  

    This paper investigates the formation of complex societies by examining what changes took place to ‘religious’ practices in the process. For that purpose, the religious is heuristically redefined in terms of their functional-effective elements thus: religious activities constitute a distinct communicative domain that responds to and processes the uncertainties and risks of the world. Drawing upon this re-definition, this paper adopts a procedure comprising the following units of investigation: A) what uncertainties and risks of the world were generated and differentiated in/by a certain social formation, B) how they were responded to and processed, and C) how the mode of the responding and processing changed as ‘social complexity’ developed? The pre- and proto-historic periods of the Japanese archipelago will be investigated as a case, and it will be revealed that the mode of religious practices changed as the spatio-temporal distribution of the sources of uncertainties and risks to be reacted to and processed changed.

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  • THE FORMATION OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES AS SEEN FROM RELIGIOUS PRACTICES International conference

    Koji MIZOGUCHI

    European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting Kiel 2021  2021.9 

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    Event date： 2021.9 - 2022.9

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    Venue：Kiel   Country：Germany  

    This paper investigates the formation of complex societies by examining what changes took place to ‘religious’ practices in the process. For that purpose, the religious is heuristically redefined in terms of their functional-effective elements thus: religious activities constitute a distinct communicative domain that responds to and processes the uncertainties and risks of the world. Drawing upon this re-definition, this paper adopts a procedure comprising the following units of investigation: A) what uncertainties and risks of the world were generated and differentiated in/by a certain social formation, B) how they were responded to and processed, and C) how the mode of the responding and processing changed as ‘social complexity’ developed? The pre- and proto-historic periods of the Japanese archipelago will be investigated as a case, and it will be revealed that the mode of religious practices changed as the spatio-temporal distribution of the sources of uncertainties and risks to be reacted to and processed changed.

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MISC

  • Mizoguchi, K. 2008. Comment to I. Kuijt The Regeneration of Life: Neolithic Structures of Symbolic Remembering and Forgetting. Current Anthropology, Vol.49, No.2: 171-197 (190-191)

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    Current Anthropology, Vol.49, No.2   2008.6

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    Mizoguchi, K. 2008. "Comment" to I. Kuijt "The Regeneration of Life: Neolithic Structures of Symbolic Remembering and Forgetting". Current Anthropology, Vol.49, No.2: 171-197 (190-191)

  • Review: Anderson, A.-C. et al. (eds), Kaleidoscopic Past: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic TAG Conference, Göteborg, 2-5 April 1997 (reviewed by Koji Mizoguchi)

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    European Journal of Archaeology   2001.1

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    Mizoguchi, Koji, 2001 Review: "Anderson, A.-C. et al. (eds), Kaleidoscopic Past: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic TAG Conference, Goteborg, 2-5 April 1997". European Journal of Archaeology, Vol.4, No.2: 271-294.

Professional Memberships

  • Society of Archaeological Studies

  • Society for Kyushu Archaeology

  • Society for American Archaeology

  • European Association of Archaeologists

  • Society for East Asian Archaeology

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Committee Memberships

  • JAPAN Icomos   Vice-chairman   Foreign country

    2023.4 - 2029.3   

  • World Archaeological Congress (WAC) (世界考古学会議)   Chairman   Foreign country

    2013.1 - 2028.6   

  • JAPAN Icomos   副委員長　Vice-President   Foreign country

    2023.4 - 2027.3   

  • JAPAN Icomos   Executive   Foreign country

    2019.4 - 2023.3   

  • JAPAN Icomos   Executive  

    2019.4 - 2023.3   

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Academic Activities

  • International Fellow, The British Academy

    2024.7 - Present

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    On 17 July 2024, the British Academy held its Annual General Meeting, where Koji Mizoguchi, Professor of Archaeology at Kyushu University's Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, was elected as an International Fellow. He is the first Japanese archaeologist and the first researcher from Kyushu University to receive this honor.

    Founded in 1902, the British Academy aims to deepen and share understanding of people, societies, and cultures across time and place, enabling everyone to learn, progress, and prosper. Notable Fellows include Cambridge University’s Professor Dame Mary Beard, an expert on ancient Rome.

    The International Fellowship is the highest honor the Academy confers on non-UK residents for excellence in the humanities and social sciences. With Mizoguchi’s election, the ranks of Japanese International Fellows now include three current members. The other two are political scientist Takeshi Sasaki, former President of the University of Tokyo, and linguist Yutaka Yoshida, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University. Mizoguchi is the ninth Japanese scholar to receive this honor, and it has been ten years since the last Japanese researcher was elected as an international fellow.

    In 2024, the British Academy elected 52 UK Fellows, 30 International Fellows, and 4 Honorary Fellows. The full list of new Fellows was published on Thursday, July 18.



    Koji Mizoguchi commented, "I am deeply honored and pleasantly surprised by this selection. It is wonderful that my continued efforts in social archaeology have gained such international recognition. This honor is rooted in the rich tradition of archaeology at Kyushu University and Japan's historical advancements in this field. I will continue to cherish these local foundations while striving to make further global contributions."

    Over the past decades as a social archaeologist, Mizoguchi has analyzed materials such as artifacts, architecture, and human remains to reconstruct how people lived, interacted, and organized their societies. His work aims to uncover the stories behind historical artifacts and experiences, understanding how knowledge is produced and its impact on both past and present societies.

    By studying cemeteries and burial practices, Mizoguchi explores how the living commemorate the dead, and how these memories relate to the social structures and systems of the time. He also looks at the networks formed by the flow of people, goods, and information in settled communities, investigating how these networks shaped social hierarchies and complexity. In his research on religion, Mizoguchi studies how religion helps people understand and address societal issues, using archaeology to explore the link between social changes and religious practices. Cultural memories, networks connecting people and places, and in-depth explorations of religion collectively weave his extensive research framework.

    Through this integrative approach, Mizoguchi seeks to understand the mechanisms by which human communities maintain and transform their societies, achieve complexity, and develop state-like structures and social organizations. His notable publications include The Archaeology of Japan: From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Global Social Archaeologies: Making a Difference in a World of Strangers (with Claire Smith, Routledge, 2019). Furthermore, he is the only Asian scholar contributing a major section on "Post-Processual Archaeology" to the prestigious Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Second Edition (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2024).

    In addition to his research achievements, Mizoguchi has served as President of the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) since 2013. The WAC promotes global interest in the past, supports local histories, and facilitates international academic exchange. Under his leadership, social archaeologists have increasingly addressed postcolonialism, community heritage, and indigenous rights, advancing the field of contemporary social archaeology. Mizoguchi is dedicated to bridging global divides and bringing attention to human rights issues and inequality. His efforts highlight archaeology's role in addressing modern social issues and contributing to a more just world.

  • Screening of academic papers

    Role(s)： Peer review

    2023

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    Number of peer-reviewed articles in foreign language journals：2

  • President 会長として準備・進行を統括 International contribution

    The Ninth World Archaeological Congress  （ Prague CzechRepublic ） 2022.7

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    Number of participants：1,000

  • The Ninth World Archaeological Congress International contribution

    （ Prague CzechRepublic ） 2022.7

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  • Screening of academic papers

    Role(s)： Peer review

    2022

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  • 'Archaeological Dialogues' (Volume 30, Issue 1), a leading international journal in theoretical archaeology, featured my interview covering the following topics: contributions to the development of world archaeology based on theoretical archaeology, retrospect and prospects for my career, the future of archaeology and the contribution of Japanese archaeology to world archaeology. The interview is entitled: 'A conversation with Koji Mizoguchi. on globalization, Japanese archaeology and archaeological theory today'. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeological-dialogues/article/conversation-with-koji-mizoguchi-on-globalization-japanese-archaeology-and-archaeological-theory-today/B36098C24D87947663878CF7EA99E788

    2023.3

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    On the occasion of a short research trip to Japan, I had the opportunity to sit down with Professor Koji Mizoguchi in Kyushu University, Fukuoka, to discuss several topics, which you will find transcribed below. I was curious as to his thoughts that he – as the President of the World Archaeological Congress, a non-governmental and non-profit organization that promotes the exchange of archaeological results, training at a global scale and the empowerment of Indigenous and minority groups, a Professor of Social Archaeology, and one of the few archaeologists writing archaeological theory in the far East – had on the state of the art of archaeology today. Furthermore, since I grew up in Europe but nevertheless feel a deep connection with my own Asian ancestry, I was very interested in Mizoguchi’s own experience and contributions to archaeology in Japan and the world.

  • 理論考古学における先端的国際誌 'Archaeological Dialogues' (Volume 30, Issue 1) において、理論考古学を軸とする世界考古学の発展への貢献と、自らのキャリアの回顧と展望、考古学の未来、日本考古学の世界考古学への貢献などを内容とするインタビュー 'A conversation with Koji Mizoguchi. On globalization, Japanese archaeology and archaeological theory today' が公開された。 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeological-dialogues/article/conversation-with-koji-mizoguchi-on-globalization-japanese-archaeology-and-archaeological-theory-today/B36098C24D87947663878CF7EA99E788

    2023.3

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    On the occasion of a short research trip to Japan, I had the opportunity to sit down with Professor Koji Mizoguchi in Kyushu University, Fukuoka, to discuss several topics, which you will find transcribed below. I was curious as to his thoughts that he – as the President of the World Archaeological Congress, a non-governmental and non-profit organization that promotes the exchange of archaeological results, training at a global scale and the empowerment of Indigenous and minority groups, a Professor of Social Archaeology, and one of the few archaeologists writing archaeological theory in the far East – had on the state of the art of archaeology today. Furthermore, since I grew up in Europe but nevertheless feel a deep connection with my own Asian ancestry, I was very interested in Mizoguchi’s own experience and contributions to archaeology in Japan and the world.

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  • Discussant, Forum: RE-CONNECTING THE PAST: THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY in Society for American Archaeology 2013 Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai

    2013.4

  • アメリカ考古学会2013年総会（ホノルル）において開催された公開フォーラム'RE-CONNECTING THE PAST: THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY'におけるディスカッサントとしての参加（招待）

    2013.4

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  • Discussant, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Workshop 'Exhibition "Unearthed"'.

    2010.8

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Research Projects

  • A three-dimensional quantitative study of social learning and ceramic style formation in Japanese prehistoric pottery makers

    Grant number：22KF0305  2023.3 - 2025.3

    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

    溝口 孝司, LOFTUS JAMES

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    This study seeks to elucidate quantifiable measures of variable human learning strategies and idiosyncratic variance in prehistoric pottery communities in Japan. No international or domestic studies have been able to accurately quantify learning strategies utilizing complex statistical or 3D methodology until this study. To do so, this study utilizes a newly developed geometric morphometric statistical package developed in R, and novel 3D technologies. A case study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan will be compared to modern ethnographic evidence in both Japan and other countries.

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  • Why did people form the state?: comparative micro and macro-scale combined studies between Japan, Britain and China

    Grant number：20H01350  2020 - 2023

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    溝口 孝司, 小澤 正人, 徳留 大輔, 辻田 淳一郎, 田尻 義了, 舟橋 京子

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    国家を主軸として保証されてきた人と人との繋がり・社会の安定は、グローバル化を中心とするさまざまな問題により揺らぎつつある。そもそも人はなぜ広域にまとまり繋がるようになったのか？個々の親族集団、共同体に暮らしていた人々はなぜ特定の人や組織に従うようになったのか？社会の複雑性の増大、国家形成のメカニズムを解明するこは、国家と社会のより良いあり方を考え直す上で、かつてなく重要になっている。従来の研究では、システムや制度の復元というマクロな視点のみに重きが置かれがちであったが、個々人の思考や行動の構造化とその原理というミクロな視点からの分析を新たに加え、今日の人類の直面する問題の原点を解き明かしたい。

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  • 安陽殷墟西北岡商代後期王陵区祭祀坑の研究

    2019 - 2020

    三島海雲財団学術研究奨励金共同研究奨励金（人文科学部門）

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  • 社会の複雑化・国家形成における葬送儀礼の機能と貢献

    Grant number：17K03211  2017 - 2019

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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  • 人類社会の複雑性・複合性の増大過程研究:日本列島・ブリテン島比較研究から

    2016 - 2020

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

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Educational Activities

  • My seminar course for MA students and Ph.D. candidates are designed to let students virtually experience a whole process of the production of archaeological knowledge and to train them to become capable of reporting new findings, methodological, theoretical, or otherwise, to international audience.

    The unit consists of 1) theme-oriented discussion classes, 2) lectures on archaeological theories and methods, and 3) English-presentation sessions on the outcomes of students' on-going researches.

    Many of the students of the class 2003-2004 have already presented their papers in international conferences, notably in "The 3rd World Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology, Daejon, Korea, June 2004".

Class subject

  • 埋蔵文化財から見える世界

    2024.12 - 2025.2   Winter quarter

  • 社会考古学 Ⅷ

    2024.12 - 2025.2   Winter quarter

  • 社会考古学 Ⅳ

    2024.12 - 2025.2   Winter quarter

  • 社会考古学 Ⅷ

    2024.12 - 2025.2   Winter quarter

  • 社会考古学 Ⅳ

    2024.12 - 2025.2   Winter quarter

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FD Participation

  • 2008.2   Role：Participation   Title：指導院生のストレスとメンタルヘルス

    Organizer：[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2005.1   Title：不明

Visiting, concurrent, or part-time lecturers at other universities, institutions, etc.

  • 2024  University of East Anglia  Classification:Part-time lecturer  Domestic/International Classification:Overseas 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration：Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures

  • 2002  名古屋大学文学部  Classification:Intensive course  Domestic/International Classification:Japan 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration：前期

  • 2001  Institute of Archaeology, UCL University of London  Classification:Affiliate faculty  Domestic/International Classification:Overseas 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration：Institute of Archaeology

  • 2000  Institute of Archaeology, UCL University of London  Classification:Affiliate faculty  Domestic/International Classification:Overseas 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration：Institute of Archaeology

  • 1998  北海道大学文学部  Classification:Intensive course  Domestic/International Classification:Japan 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration：前期

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Other educational activity and Special note

  • 2023  Class Teacher  学部

  • 2021  Class Teacher  学部

  • 2020  Class Teacher  学部

  • 2019  Class Teacher  学部

  • 2013  Special Affairs  Myself and research students were involved in the preliminary research excavations of Neolithic hill-top enclosures and a long barrow in Dorston, Herefordshire, UK in late August, 2013. It was the third season of what is going to be a long-term project exploring human-environment-landscape interactions in the early Neolithic period, and the students experienced at first hand practical English communication in a field-research environment and learnt how to undertake field and museum research in UK.

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    Myself and research students were involved in the preliminary research excavations of Neolithic hill-top enclosures and a long barrow in Dorston, Herefordshire, UK in late August, 2013. It was the third season of what is going to be a long-term project exploring human-environment-landscape interactions in the early Neolithic period, and the students experienced at first hand practical English communication in a field-research environment and learnt how to undertake field and museum research in UK.

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Outline of Social Contribution and International Cooperation activities

  • 2011~present: Collaborative regional archaeological project with University of Manchester and Herefordshire Archaeology
    2019~present: Japan ICOMOS board of Directors

Social Activities

  • EU（欧州連合）European Research Council（ヨーロピアン・リサーチ・カウンシル）Advanced Grant Evaluation Panel

    2014

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  • EU（欧州連合）European Research Council（ヨーロピアン・リサーチ・カウンシル）Advanced Grant Evaluation Panel

    2014

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  • EU（欧州連合）European Research Council（ヨーロピアン・リサーチ・カウンシル）Advanced Grant Evaluation Panel

    2013

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  • EU（欧州連合）European Research Council（ヨーロピアン・リサーチ・カウンシル）Advanced Grant Evaluation Panel

    2013

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  • EU（欧州連合）European Research Council（ヨーロピアン・リサーチ・カウンシル）Advanced Grant Evaluation Panel

    2012

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Media Coverage

  • Book Break: Archaeology, Society ad Identity in Modern Japan (http://www.fccj.or.jp/~fccjyod2/node/1330) BOOK BREAK "Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan" By Koji Mizoguchi Monday, October 23, 2006 6:30pm to 8:30pm Language: The speech and Q&A will be in English. Description: To All Members: Leading Japanese archaeologist Koji Mizoguchi argues that an understanding of the past has been a central component in the creation of national identities and modern nation states and that, since its emergence as a distinct academic discipline in the modern era, archaeology has played an important role in shaping that understanding. By examining in parallel the uniquely intense process of modernisation experienced by Japan and the history of Japanese archaeology, Mizoguchi explores the close interrelationship between archaeology, society and modernity. In his talk, Mizoguchi will particularly address issues of special relevance to contemporary Japanese society such as the emperor system, the manipulation of the image of the imperial family, and the "democratisation" of the past.

    Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan  2006.10

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    BOOK BREAK
    "Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan"
    By Koji Mizoguchi
    Monday, October 23, 2006 6:30pm to 8:30pm
    Language:
    The speech and Q&A will be in English.
    Description:
    To All Members:
    Leading Japanese archaeologist Koji Mizoguchi argues that an understanding of the past has been a central component in the creation of national identities and modern nation states and that, since its emergence as a distinct academic discipline in the modern era, archaeology has played an important role in shaping that understanding. By examining in parallel the uniquely intense process of modernisation experienced by Japan and the history of Japanese archaeology, Mizoguchi explores the close interrelationship between archaeology, society and modernity. In his talk, Mizoguchi will particularly address issues of special relevance to contemporary Japanese society such as the emperor system, the manipulation of the image of the imperial family, and the "democratisation" of the past.

  • Meet the Author: Koji Mizoguchi (http://www.oxbowbooks.com/feature.cfm?FeatureID=68&mid=) Koji Mizoguchi's new book, An Archaeological History of Japan, is "one of the most challenging, eloquent and engaging books on this subject to date" ... at least according to Simon Kaner in the December 2002 edition of Antiquity. This is not too surprising considering Dr Mizoguchi's wide-ranging scholarly interests - from Bronze Age Wessex to Kofun burial mounds, and from post-processual theory to the archaeological study of money. I caught up with Koji at the Theoretical Archaeology Group meetings in Manchester and talked to him about his work, his favourite books, and his plans for the future.

    Oxbow Books Electronic Newsletter  2003.1

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    Meet the Author: Koji Mizoguchi (http://www.oxbowbooks.com/feature.cfm?FeatureID=68&mid=)

    Koji Mizoguchi's new book, An Archaeological History of Japan, is "one of the most challenging, eloquent and engaging books on this subject to date" ... at least according to Simon Kaner in the December 2002 edition of Antiquity. This is not too surprising considering Dr Mizoguchi's wide-ranging scholarly interests - from Bronze Age Wessex to Kofun burial mounds, and from post-processual theory to the archaeological study of money. I caught up with Koji at the Theoretical Archaeology Group meetings in Manchester and talked to him about his work, his favourite books, and his plans for the future.

Activities contributing to policy formation, academic promotion, etc.

  • 2021.9 - 2024.9   Social Archaeology fo Climate Change (SACC)　（気候変動の社会考古学グループ）

    Social Archaeology of Climate Change (SACC)（気候変動の社会考古学グループ） はICOMOSなどの文化財保護国際機関、国際学協会会長、同気候変動担当部会長、考古学、第四紀研究エクスパートなどより構成される国際組織である。世界の考古学界を繋ぎ、気候変動に関する考古学的学知と社会関与の経験とリソースを結集して政策提言や啓蒙活動を推進してゆくために組織された。私は世界考古学会議会長としてこの組織に参画し、主に、The Global South、Indigenous Communitiesの見解をその活動に反映させる観点から活動を展開している。2021年ドイツ　キール大学において開催された第一回サミットにおいて公表された声明の起草に参画した。https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/269993

  • 2020.9 - 2025.3   春日市文化財専門委員

    福岡県春日市埋蔵文化財の保存・活用に関する指導

  • 2018.4   World Bank, World Archaeological Congress

    Society for American Archaeologyにおいて開催されたWorld Bank representativesと世界考古学関連学協会会長懇談会に出席し、World Archaeological Congress （WAC 世界考古学会議）会長として主に先住民権と考古学的文化財保護へのWorld Bank資金援助における配慮についてコメントした。世界銀行の融資政策への具体提言を、世界考古学会議という世界的研究者コミュニティーの会長として行い、実際にポリシー・ドキュメントにその成果を反映させることに成功した。(http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/383011492423734099/pdf/114278-WP-REVISED-PUBLIC-Environmental-and-Social-Framework.pdf)。その成果を受けて、さらに世界銀行担当者との協議を行い、協議継続を確認した。

  • 2017.6 - 2017.12   World Archaeological Congress （世界考古学会議）

    世界銀行　‘For Public Comment: November 2 – December 15, 2017 - World Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) Draft Guidance Notes for Borrowers’へのパブリック・コメントを世界考古学会議(World Archaeological Congress)会長として行った。

Educational Activities for Highly-Specialized Professionals in Other Countries

  • 2008.6   Japan Studies Association Faculty Development Workshop: International Crossroads at Fukuoka, Japan Keynote Lecture: Archaeology and the Creation of East Asian National Identities and Modern States: The Significance of the Yoshinogari Site

    Main countries of student/trainee affiliation：United States

    Other countries of student/trainee affiliation：United States of America

  • 2000.1 - 2001.12   Courses in Japanese Archaeology. Organised as degree courses for BA and MA by the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London University

    Main countries of student/trainee affiliation：United Kingdom

Acceptance of Foreign Researchers, etc.

  • Flinders University

    Acceptance period： 2014.11 - 2015.2   （Period）：1 month or more

    Nationality：Australia

    Business entity：On-campus funds

Travel Abroad

  • 2011.3

    Staying countory name 1：United Kingdom   Staying institution name 1：Society of Antiquaries of London

  • 2010.9

    Staying countory name 1：Netherlands   Staying institution name 1：University of Leiden

  • 2010.8

    Staying countory name 1：United Kingdom   Staying institution name 1：Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japaense Arts and Cultures

  • 2010.3

    Staying countory name 1：United Kingdom   Staying institution name 1：Society of Antiquaries of London