Kiko Sakai and the development of Iraqi studies in Japan

Dar Al-Nashr Al-Rafidain Author's name: Yasser Aswad Year of publication: 2019 Number of pages: 222 About the book: The current book represents an attempt to study and trace the development of Japanese Arabization in general and the development of Iraqi studies in Japan through one of the pillars of this academic field, Professor Keiko Sakai, who is truly considered a pioneer and dean of Iraqi studies in Japan since the beginning of her research and academic work in the early 1980s until the present. Sakai saw that the history of Iraq is the basis for understanding its politics and society, and that the 1920 Revolution is a focal point on which subsequent Iraqi intellectual developments were based. The book aims to present a Japanese perspective on the Iraqi reality through the academic biography of this prominent researcher.