Akihiko Watanabe

Professor Akihiko Watanabe received his Ph.D. in classics from Yale University in 2003. His academic research has spanned a wide area including papyrology, ancient Greco-Roman novels, and Neo-Latin. Recently he has focused on classical receptions in early modern Japan and the Asia-Pacific, especially Latin as learned and used by indigenous non-Western populations. His most recent book publication is Neo-Latin and Japan (Brill, 2025). He currently teaches in the Department of Comparative Culture at Otsuma Women’s University in Tokyo, Japan.