Shigemi Inaga

Shigemi Inaga (稲賀 繁美 1957 in Hiroshima) is a Japanese scholar in comparative literature, culture, and the history of cultural exchange.

Education Inaga studied for a Master of Arts degree in comparative literature and 19th-century French art history at the University of Tokyo before earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree (博士 hakushi) in 1988 at Paris Diderot University.

Career From 1988 to 1990, Inaga was employed as an assistant in the Department of Liberal Arts of Tokyo University. He then took a position as associate professor at Mie University, a position he held from 1990 to 1997. In 1997, Inaga was appointed to International Research Center for Japanese Studies and was promoted to full professor in 2004.