Harumi Goto-Shibata is a historian specializing in the League of Nations and Britain’s relations with East Asia. She completed her doctoral degree at the University of Oxford, and since 2009, she has been a Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Her publications include The League of Nations and the East Asian Imperial Order, 1920-1946 and Japan and Britain in Shanghai, 1925-31.

Her current research project examines how Britain interpreted the ‘development’ of the 1928 Pact of Paris, especially concerning its special interests. Outlawry of war movement in the United States has been examined well. On the other hand, it is not clear how Britain considered the outlawry of war. Were its attitudes the same all over the world, or were there certain boundaries which divided the civilized and uncivilized and differentiated the treatment of each? Through exploring an array of questions and viewpoints, this research aims to bridge between the inter-war and the post-war period.