Thomas Lockley: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|AssociateBritish Professor at Nihon Universityacademic (born 1978)}}

| employer = [[Nihon_University|Nihon University, School of Law]]

'''Thomas Lockley''' (born 1978) is a British academic who is an associate professor of the College of Law of [[Nihon University]],<ref name="nihonu">{{citation|url=https://researcher-web.nihon-u.ac.jp/search/detail?systemId=b821967215ac2300740660f458cd5cad|title=LOCKLEY Thomas|website=Nihon University Researcher Information System |access-date=2024-07-21 July 2024}}</ref><ref name="tm">{{Cite web |title=ロックリー トーマス |url=https://www.tuttlemori-authors.com/?page_id=1187 |access-date=2024-07-17 July 2024 |website=TUTTLE-MORI AGENCY AUTHORS | date=9 February 2017 |publisher=株式会社[[タトル・モリ エイジェンシー]] |language=ja}}</ref> and a visiting researcher for the [[SOAS University of London]].<ref name="tm" /> His research in the humanities and social sciences centers on education and history, with a particular emphasis on Japanese history. He is the author of ''African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan''.

Lockley was born in the United Kingdom in 1978.<ref name="hmv">{{Cite web |title=トーマス・ロックリー プロフィール |url=https://www.hmv.co.jp/artist_%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC_200000001124251/biography/ |access-date=2024-07-17 July 2024 |website=HMV&BOOKS online |publisher=Lawson Entertainment |language=ja}}</ref>{{Sfn|Lockley|2017|loc=Translator afternote}} He first came to Japan in 2000 as a participant in the [[JET Programme]], spending two years in [[Tottori (city)|Tottori]]{{Sfn|Lockley|2017|loc=Translator afternote}} as an [[Assistant Language Teacher|assistant language teacher]] at an elementary school.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 February 2020-02-12 |title=《支援者インタビュー》 難民として逃れた祖母の存在を胸にー本能寺の変にいた「アフリカン・サムライ」から日本史を描く：ロックリー・トーマスさん |url=https://www.refugee.or.jp/report/activity/2020/02/post_501/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926005545/https://www.refugee.or.jp/report/activity/2020/02/post_501/ |archive-date=2021-09-26 September 2021 |access-date=2024-07-17 July 2024 |publisher=Japan Associate for Refugees |language=ja}}</ref> He later took on a full-time lecturing position at the [[Nihon University]] College of Law,{{Sfn|Lockley|2017|loc=Translator afternote}} and was promoted to associate professor in 2019<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goto |first=Tsuyoshi |date=5 June 2022-06-05 |title=Researcher sheds light on mystery of African samurai Yasuke made famous by Netflix anime |url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220603/p2a/00m/0et/026000c |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605001037/https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220603/p2a/00m/0et/026000c |archive-date=5 June 2022-06-05 |access-date=2024-07-17 July 2024 |website=[[Mainichi Shimbun|The Mainichi]] |language=en}}</ref> In the same year, he also became a visiting researcher for SOAS.<ref name="tm" />

In 2016, he released a thesis paper titled ''The Story of [[Yasuke]]: [[Oda Nobunaga|Nobunaga]]'s African Retainer'' on the Nihon University's journal {{Nihongo|''Ōmon Ronsō''|桜文論叢}},{{Sfn|Lockley|2017|loc=Translator afternote}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Story of Yasuke: Nobunaga's African Retainer |url=https://researchmap.jp/7000004775/published_papers/18205512 |access-date=2024-07-17 July 2024 |website=researchmap |language=ja}}</ref> and in 2017 he published his first work titled {{Nihongo|''Nobunaga to Yasuke: Honnoji o ikinobita kokujinsamurai''|信長と弥助 本能寺を生き延びた黒人侍}}.<ref name="tm" /> In 2019, he published ''African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan'' in the United States together with [[Geoffrey Girard]].<ref name="tm" />