Ted Boyle is an associate professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, and the editor of Japan Review. He is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, and a research associate for the Eurasia Unit for Border Research (UBRJ) at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University.

Ted has been the Japan representative for the Borders in Globalization project since 2016, serves as an officer for the Japan Chapter of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABSj), and is the co-ordinator for the collaborative interdisciplinary project ‘Imagining Islands in Japan’. His research focuses on boundaries and borderland spaces in Japan and its neighbourhood, the Asia-Pacific, and Northeast India. More details and publications are available at www.borderthinking.com.

Ongoing projects include research into the role and significance of borders of memory in Asia, the topic of a new Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) grant and books published with Brill and Bloomsbury in 2023.