Madoka Kanai

Madoka Kanai was a Japanese historian at the University of Tokyo who specialized in modern Japanese history, with a special interest in the history of Japanese foreign relations. He was formerly Director of the Japan-Netherlands Institute and President of the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo.
Kanai was born in Nagano Prefecture and educated at the University of Tokyo.

Selected bibliography

;In Japanese

Hansei
O-yatoi Gaikokujin: Jinbun Kagaku, part of a series
Nichi-ran kōshōshi no Kenkyū
Kinsei Nihon to Oranda

;In English:

A Japanese Historian Visits the U.S.A.
A Diary of William Cleveland: Captain's Clerk on Board the Massachusetts, transcribed and annotated by Madoka Kanai
A Topical History of Japan
The Cambridge History of Japan

Kanai also translated several books into Japanese, such as Matthew C. Perry's The Japan Expedition, 1852–1854 and Otis Manchester Poole's Death of Old Yokohoma.