Florentino Rodao García (born 1960) is a Spanish historian andJapanologist. His historical research deals withAsian studies andInternational relations. He is full professor of theComplutense University of Madrid (UCM).

Florentino Rodao was born in 1960 inMadrid.^[1]

He obtained a PhD at the UCM in 1993, reading a thesis about theSpanish-Japanese relations, 1937–1945.^[2][3] Having lived inThailand, thePhilippines andJapan, he briefly worked as teacher of Spanish language for PrinceNaruhito in 1992.^[4] He earned a PhD in theUniversity of Tokyo in 2007,^[2][5] reading a thesis onThe 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 ministerRamón Serrano Suñer, communist leaderSantiago Carrillo, ambassador Eikichi Hayashiya, spyÁngel 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 themassacre at the Spanish consulate in Manila in 1945.^[6]

• Españoles en Siam (1540–1939). Una aportación al estudio de la presencia hispana en Asia Oriental. Madrid:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. 1997.
• Franco y el imperio japonés. Imágenes y propaganda en tiempos de guerra. Barcelona: Plaza & Janés. 2002.^[7][8][9]
• Franquistas sin Franco: una historia alternativa de la Guerra Civil española desde Filipinas. Comares. 2012.^[10]
• La soledad del país vulnerable. Japón desde 1945. Crítica. 2019.^[11]

• Spanish Japanologists
• 1960 births
• 20th-century Spanish historians
• Complutense University of Madrid alumni
• Academics and writers on the international relations of Spain
• Living people
• 21st-century Spanish historians
• Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid

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