2009-present: Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Political Thought, Leiden University
2009-present: Founding Dean Leiden University College The Hague
2006-present: Director of Modern East Asia Research Centre, Leiden University
2006-2009: Professor of Modern Japan Studies, Leiden University
2005-2006: Associate Professor in the History of Ideas in Modern Japan, Leiden University
2003-2005: Lecturer in Modern History, University of Nottingham
2001: Founding director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Kent
2001-2003: Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations of East Asia, University of Kent
1998-2000: Ministry of Education Visiting Researcher in Graduate School of Law, Keio University, Tokyo

2008: Awarded VICI grant of the NWO (Dutch Scientific Organisation)
2005-2010: Honorary Fellow, White Rose East Asia Centre, White Rose University Consortium (Leeds, Sheffield and York Universities)
2005-2010: Honorary Fellow, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
2005: Elected as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK)
2004: Awarded British Academy Research Grant
2004: Elected to the Royal Institute of Philosophy (UK)
2003-2008: Research Associate, Japan Research Centre, SOAS, University of London
2003-2006: Editorial board member, Global Society
2003-2004: Senior Associate Member, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
2003-2004: Consultant for University of Westminster ­ establishing new courses on Modern Japan
2003: Appointed as editor, Japan Forum (Journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies)
2003: Elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (UK)
2003: Won Daiwa Foundation/Japan Forum Prize 2003
2002-2005: Visiting Lecturer in Japanese Politics, SOAS, University of London
2002-2004: Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge and Nihon-Pembroke, Visiting Scholar in Modern Japan at University of Cambridge
2002: Awarded research grant from Japan Foundation Endowment Committee
2002: Awarded research grant from Toshiba International Foundation
2002: Awarded Grant from Japan Foundation
2002-2003: Appointed as reviews editor, Japan Forum
2001: Elected Fellow of the Anglo-Japanese Academy
2000: Awarded Sasakawa Foundation Scholarship
2000: Awarded Daiwa Foundation Research Award
1998: Monbusho (Ministry of Education) scholarship to Graduate School of Law, Keio University, Tokyo
1998: Awarded a Research Studentship from the Economic and Social Research Council
1998: Won Oxford University’s Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Thesis Prize