Yoshiya Makita is a historian. His research is exploring transnational connections and network in the modern world. His current project focuses on the emergence of humanitarian network in the Asia Pacific in the early twentieth century. As the director of Network Trans-Section, he is now launching a new project on the contemporary politics of memory, history, and cultural heritage. He is also working as an assistant professor at the College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University in Osaka, Japan.