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Born and raised in Tokyo, Yuichiro was educated first at Kyoto University, where his interest in intellectual history was nurtured. He then moved on to University College London, UK, where he gained his PhD in Political Science. He has conducted postdoctoral research at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, before joining the Hakubi Project. Since his first Kyoto years, he has been studying classical utilitarian politics in the field of intellectual history. Even among intellectual historians, there seems to be no consensus about what intellectual history should be; Yuichiro prefers to examine the personal relationships between those people debating such ideas, rather than analyze the abstract ideas themselves. During his Hakubi years, he will be working on the development and diffusion of utilitarian ideas in nineteenth-century Britain in terms of analysis of various personal relationships at that time. Through this research he hopes to articulate his own vision of intellectual history.