Florentino Rodao García (born 1960) is a Spanish historian and Japanologist. His historical research deals with Asian studies and international relations. He is full professor of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

Biography

Florentino Rodao was born in 1960 in Madrid.[1]

He obtained a PhD at the UCM in 1993, reading a thesis about the Spanish-Japanese relations, 1937–1945.[2] [3] Having lived in Thailand, the Philippines and Japan, he briefly worked as teacher of Spanish language for Prince Naruhito in 1992.[4] He earned a PhD in the University of Tokyo in 2007,[2][5] reading a thesis on The Spanish Community in the Philippines, 1935–1939: The impact of the War in Spain and the preparations for Philippine Independence in its evolution and identity.

Because of his investigations, Rodao has been able to interview people from the World War II, such as minister Ramón Serrano Suñer, communist leader Santiago Carrillo, ambassador Eikichi Hayashiya, spy Ángel Alcázar de Velasco or the Republican consul in Japan José Luis Alvarez Taladriz, as well as Japanese residents in Spain or members of the Spanish community in the Philippines, especially Anna Maria Aguilella, the only survivor of the massacre at the Spanish consulate in Manila in 1945.[6]

Works

References

  1. ^ Yagüe, David (30 April 2019). "Japón comienza la era Reiwa: un país solitario y vulnerable ante los retos del siglo XXI". 20minutos.es.
  2. ^ a b "Ciclo de conferencias itinerantes en Centroamérica y Sudamérica". Fundación Japón Madrid.
  3. ^ Falque, Juan R. Goberna (2005-01-30). "Los servicios de inteligencia en la historiografía española". Arbor (in Spanish). 180 (709): 57–58. doi:10.3989/arbor.2005.i709.497. ISSN 1988-303X.
  4. ^ Abad Liñán, José Manuel (15 August 2016). "Futuro emperador busca profesor de español". El País.
  5. ^ Álvarez, Paz (18 April 2019). "Florentino Rodao: "La única empresa que le hace sombra a Zara es japonesa"". Cinco Días.
  6. ^ Liñán, José Manuel Abad (2020-08-28). "Anna Maria: The Spaniard who survived 16 bayonet wounds during the Battle of Manila". EL PAÍS. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  7. ^ Girón, Alicia (2003). "Franco y el imperio japones: imágenes y propaganda en tiempos de guerra, de Florentino Rodao". Problemas del Desarrollo. Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 34 (132). ISSN 0301-7036.
  8. ^ Egea Bruno, Pedro María (2007). "Rodao, Florentino: Franco y el imperio japonés. Imágenes y propaganda en tiempos de guerra. Prólogo de S. Payne. Barcelona. Plaza y Janés. 2002, 669 pp" (PDF). Anales de Historia Contemporánea. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia. 23: 685–686. ISSN 0212-6559.
  9. ^ Delage, Fernando (January 2006). "España y Japón". Revista de Libros (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  10. ^ González Calleja, Eduardo (2014). "La Guerra Civil española en Filipinas". Revista de Occidente (392): 147–151. ISSN 0034-8635.
  11. ^ Rivera, Agustín (25 April 2019). "¿Qué pasa en Japón? Miseria, milagro, burbuja y fascinación cultural". El Confidencial.
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