Национални идентитет „граничара“ – случај Душана Тодоровића, професора руског језика у Токију од раних дана до краја Првог светског рата
National Identity of a ‘Borderland Man’: the case of Dušan Todorović, Russian Language Professor in Tokyo – from early days until end of World War I

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the life of Dušan Todorović (1875–1963), a professor of Russian language at the Tokyo Institute for the State of Languages from 1909 to 1940, as an example of the “change” of national identity in a political turbulent period. Dušan Todorović was born as a Serb in the borderland of the Habsburg Empire, he studied the Gymnasium and the Faculty of Technology in Belgrade (Kingdom of Serbia) and went to Petersburg for further studying, as a scholarship student by the Russian government in 1894. Todorović worked as teacher of physics and mathematics at several schools for 7 years in Russia, and then came to Japan in April, 1909 to taught Russian language at Tokyo Institute for Foreign Languages. In World War I he started to support Serbia with donations through Red Cross of Japan and in interwar period he was a ‘private ambassador’ of the new country, Yugoslavia in Japan (and only one person in Japan from Yugoslavia).

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