Given Mishima Yukio’s (1925-1970) fascination with radical right-wing ideas that contributed to his dramatic suicide at the Ichigaya headquarters of the Japan Self-Defence Forces, Read More →
This presentation intends to address the political theory of Ogyū Sorai (1666-1728), the speaker’s first topic of research some twenty-five years ago. By doing so, two fundamental Read More →
This paper offers preliminary fndings from research on an understudied topic: premodern economic thought. Japan’s medieval age was a time of tremendous change as people began usingRead More →
The kanhua chan (Jp. kannazen 看話禅), a practice established by Dahui Zonggao 大慧宗杲 (1089–1163) during the Song period, soon became dominant in Chan (Jp. Zen) Buddhism. According toRead More →
The aim of the talk is twofold: to introduce the Japan Biographical Database, its origin, aim, and current status, and to discuss ongoing research on what networks meant for the peRead More →
This talk is based on three published accounts of life in Japan produced by British Army and Marine officers to explore the influences and legacies of the British Garrison of YokohRead More →
When compared to the great figures that dominate the scholarly conversation on Buddhism in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, monks such as Butsugon 仏厳 (fl. twelfth cRead More →
This presentation will focus on the life of Kawai Koume, an artist and housewife from a lower-ranking samurai family of Kishu domain (now Wakayama prefecture), from the 1830s throuRead More →
The Ashio copper mine incident is one of Japan’s rst and most famous industrial pollution cases. An industrialist close to the government took charge of the mine in the TochiRead More →
