Matea Radaković

Matea Radaković completed her BA in History and Japanese Language and Culture, followed by a MA in History and Japanese Studies with a teacher education module, at the Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. During her studies, she spent a period as an exchange student at Fukuoka Women’s University in Japan. Since November 2024, she has been employed as an assistant at the Department of Asian Studies, where she primarily teaches historical and social courses, including Introduction to Asian Studies, Introduction to Japanese History and Culture, Social Changes and Challenges of Contemporary Japan, and Japanese Studies in Humanities and Social Research. She also teaches practical classes in Japanese Language 1.

Her research interests include modern Japanese history, with a particular focus on the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952) and the lived experiences of Japanese women during this period. She has published a research in a peer-reviewed journal, History in Flux, where she examined women’s political agency in Japan’s first post-war elections.

Since the 2024/2025 academic year, she has been pursuing a PhD at the University of Ljubljana within the doctoral programme in Humanities and Social Sciences - Asian and African Studies.

Her doctoral research examines the regulation and perception of prostitution in post-war Japan through a comparative perspective, placing these developments in dialogue with the historical experience of socialist Yugoslavia.

CV updated on 2026-09-26.