The HAKUBI Center for Advanced Research Program-Specific Associate Professor
The foundation of my research rests upon a fundamental question regarding the composition of historical narratives. Having experienced both life in the USA and Europe, one becomes acutely conscious of the prevailing tendency to craft the global narrative from their own vantage point. In essence, my research endeavors to illustrate that a portion of the historical discourse concerning Japan is, in reality, influenced by Western perspectives. The study of the pre-modern phenomenon of 'martyrdom' serves as a pertinent avenue for unveiling this phenomenon. Presently, I am delving deeper into exploring the broader implications of how history is both written and conceptualized.
I am currently living in Kyoto, Japan, as the first researcher in the History of Christian Thought/History to be selected in the Hakubi project of Kyoto University.
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A new review of my first book in French (monograph, published in 2020) was published in "Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales".
[French] "Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales", Volume 78 , Issue 1 , March 2023, pp. 184 - 187, https://doi.org/10.1017/ahss.2023.60
The book has also been reviewed in French and Japanese as follows.
[French] "ASDIWAL: Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions" No. 16 (2021) https://www.asdiwal.ch/revue /pdf/no16/Asdiwal16-ComptesRendus14.pdf
[Japanese] The French-Japanese Society for Oriental Studies "Correspondence" vol. 45 (2022) http://www.classics.jp/sofjeo/tsushin/vol45.pdf
There are also reviews of recent monograph in Japanese.
Mainichi Shimbun (1 Apr 2023) 'This Week's Bookshelf' (by Ryoji Motomura, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo) https://mainichi.jp/articles/20230401/ddm/015/070/011000c
Shikoku Shimbun (11 Jun 2023) 'Mini book review' https://www.shikoku-np.co.jp/dg/article.aspx?id=K2023061100000000600