This year’s Princess Chichibu Memorial Lecture will be given online by Professor Naotaka Kimizuka. He will talk on “Seventy Years of Queen Elizabeth: The British Monarchy of the 21st Century” in memory of the Queen. (The lecture will be held by zoom in Japanese.)

Naotaka Kimizuka is a professor at the Kanto-Gakuin University. He studied at St Anthony’s College, Oxford from 1993-94 and obtained a PhD from Sophia University.
He appeared as an analyst on broadcasts of the Royal Weddings of Prince William and Prince Henry and also of the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth on NHK.
Publications: Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, History of the United Kingdom from Stonehenge to Brexit and others.