Professor of Japanese history at Inalco and director of Ifrae
Michael Lucken teaches Japanese history at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Inalco) and runs the National Institute for East Asian Research (Ifrae). His publications include L’Art du Japon au vingtième siècle (Hermann, 2001), Les Japonais et la guerre, 1937–1952 (Fayard, 2013), Nakai Masakazu. Naissance de la théorie critique au Japon (Presses du réel, 2015), Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts (Columbia University Press, 2016), Le Japon grec. Culture et possession (Gallimard, 2019).