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International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies, Tohoku University

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  • The Hasekura Bulletin #05 (Japanese)
    The Hasekura Bulletin #05 (Japanese)

    東北大学は、文部科学省から「国際卓越研究大学」の認定を受
    けました。 同制度が始まって第一号の認定となります。 東京大
    学か京都大学が認定されるであろうという下馬評を覆しての認定
    ということもあって、 新聞にも大きく報道されましたから、ご
    存じの先生方も多いことでしょう。これによって国から大きな支
    援を受けながら、国際的な研究・教育の交流環境を整えていくこ
    とになります。ただ、この制度に応募する段階から関わってきた
    者としては、認定されたことに安堵する一方で、今は複雑な心境
    です。

    Sachiko Kiyama
    Sachiko Kiyama

    September 30, 2024

    International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies(GPJS)

  • The Hasekura Bulletin #05 (English)
    The Hasekura Bulletin #05 (English)

    TU has been accredited as a University for International
    Research Excellence by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture,
    Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). TU is the first to receive
    this designation since the program’s inception. Many of the readers
    may be aware of this, as the MEXT’s decision defied widespread
    expectations that the University of Tokyo or Kyoto University would
    be chosen. With this designation, TU will receive significant
    government support to enhance its international research and
    educational environment. As a member who has been involved in
    the application process from the beginning, I am relieved but have
    mixed feelings about the accreditation.

    Sachiko Kiyama
    Sachiko Kiyama

    September 30, 2024

    International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies(GPJS)

  • Oceans as Places of Exchange and Imagination
    Oceans as Places of Exchange and Imagination

    Taku Kuroiwa

    July 26, 2024

    International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies(GPJS)

  • The Hasekura Bulletin #04 (Japanese)
    The Hasekura Bulletin #04 (Japanese)

    『論語』為政篇に、「君子不器（君子は器ならず）」という
    短い言葉があります。幼い頃から論語に親しんだ渋沢栄一は、
    これを 「箸には箸、筆には筆と夫々其器に従つた用があるの
    と同じやうに、凡人には唯それぞれ得意の一技一能があるのみ
    で、万般に行き亘つたところの無いものである。然し、非凡な
    達識の人になると一技一能に秀れた器らしい所が無くなつてし
    まひ、将に将たる奥底の知れぬ大きな所」 があることと解釈
    し、明治政府の財政のあり方を巡って自らと対立した大久保利
    通はそのような人物であったと回想しています（『実験論語処
    世談』「器ならざりし大久保利通」）

    Sachiko Kiyama
    Sachiko Kiyama

    March 30, 2024

    International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies(GPJS)

  • The Hasekura Bulletin #04 (English)
    The Hasekura Bulletin #04 (English)

    The Analects of Confucius (Master Kong) includes the passage,
    jun zi bu qi (君子不器) meaning “An exemplary person is not a
    vessel” in the chapter on the government principles. Shibusawa
    Eiichi, a Japanese industrialist who knew the Analects well,
    interpreted the passage as “Just as chopsticks are best used for
    eating and brushes for writing, mediocre persons have their own
    unique skill and not general abilities applicable everywhere.

    Sachiko Kiyama
    Sachiko Kiyama

    March 30, 2024

    International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies(GPJS)

  • The Hasekura Bulletin #03 (Japanese)
    The Hasekura Bulletin #03 (Japanese)

    このTHE HASEKURA BULLETIN を前回お届けしたのは、2020 年7 月でした。その後、未曾有のパンデミックによって、支倉リーグの対面での活動は大きく制限されました。ただ、我々はその間も歩みをとめず、昨年9 月には、東北大学創立115 周年、総合大学100 周年記念行事の一環として支倉サミットと支倉シンポジウムを実施しました。

    Sachiko Kiyama
    Sachiko Kiyama

    August 30, 2023

    日本学国際共同大学院

  • The Hasekura Bulletin #03 (English)
    The Hasekura Bulletin #03 (English)

    After the last issue of THE HASEKURA BULLETIN in July 2020, our in-person activities in the Hasekura League were greatly restricted due to the unprecedented pandemic. However, we have
    not stopped moving forward. In September of last year, we successfully held the Hasekura Summit and Hasekura Symposium as part of the 115th anniversary of TU's founding and its 100th
    anniversary as a comprehensive university.

    Sachiko Kiyama
    Sachiko Kiyama

    August 30, 2023

    International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies(GPJS)

  • Precarity in an Inter-connected Northeast Asia
    Precarity in an Inter-connected Northeast Asia

    Hiroki Oka , Alyne Delaney

    December 20, 2022
    Hiroki Oka, Alyne Delaney

  • YONAOSHI
    YONAOSHI
    VISIONS OF A BETTER WORLD

    Christopher Craig , Enrico Fongaro , Luca Milasi , James Tink

    February 28, 2022
    Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
    MIMESIS INTERNATIONAL

    Amazon
  • REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
    REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
    A COMPARATIVE VEIW OF THE LONG 1960S IN JAPAN AND ITALY

    Hiroaki Adachi , Christopher Craig , Marco Del Bene , Enrico Fongaro

    February 28, 2022
    Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
    MIMESIS INTERNATIONAL

    Amazon
  • The past as a source of imagination and inspiration
    The past as a source of imagination and inspiration

    Taku Kuroiwa , Chiara Ramero

    October 1, 2021

    International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies(GPJS)

  • IMAGES, PHILOSOPHY, COMMUNICATION
    IMAGES, PHILOSOPHY, COMMUNICATION
    Aesthetics and Thought in Japan and the World

    Christopher Craig , Enrico Fongaro , Raffaele Milani , James Tink
    Christopher Craig, Enrico Fongaro, Raffaele Milani, and James Tin,

    March 19, 2021
    Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
    MIMESIS INTERNATIONAL

    Amazon
  • Globalization and Cultural Heritage: East—West Perspective
    Globalization and Cultural Heritage: East—West Perspective

    Franciszek Czech , Ewa Kaminska

    February 16, 2021

    Institute of Intercultural Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow

  • FURUSATO
    FURUSATO
    ‘Home’ at the Nexus of History, Art, Society, and Self

    Christopher Craig , Enrico Fongaro , Aldo Tollini
    Edited by Christopher Craig, Enrico Fongaro, and Aldo Tollini

    January 28, 2021
    Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
    MIMESIS INTERNATIONAL

    Amazon
  • The Values of the Other
    The Values of the Other

    Taku Kuroiwa

    December 1, 2020

    GPJS(Tohoku University), LITT&ARTS and ILCEA4(Grenoble Alpes University)

  • The Hasekura Bulletin #02
    The Hasekura Bulletin #02

    This follow-up to our initial issue of the Bulletin comes at what must be one of the strangest and most challenging times most of us have experienced. The worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus – which, at the time of this writing, shows no sign of slowing – has in the space of weeks shattered assumptions related to travel and social intercourse, upturned economies both national and international, and transformed, in ways that are probably permanent, the nature of work and employment.

    Christopher Craig
    CRAIG Christopher

    July 9, 2020

    International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies(GPJS)

  • The Hasekura Bulletin #01
    The Hasekura Bulletin #01

    Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Hasekura Bulletin, the official newsletter of the Hasekura League. As the name suggests, this newsletter will serve to provide regular updates and news concerning Hasekura League events, activities, and publications, but that is only the beginning.

    Christopher Craig
    CRAIG Christopher

    April 1, 2020

    International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies(GPJS)

  • 3.11
    3.11
    Disaster and Trauma in Experience, Understanding, and Imagination

    Christopher Craig , Enrico Fongaro , Andreas Niehaus
    Edited by Christopher Craig, Enrico Fongaro, and Andreas Niehaus

    February 24, 2020
    Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
    MIMESIS INTERNATIONAL

    Amazon
  • KNOWLEDGE AND ARTS ON THE MOVE
    KNOWLEDGE AND ARTS ON THE MOVE
    Transformation of the Self-aware Image Through East-west Encounters

    Christopher Craig , Enrico Fongaro , Akihiro Ozaki
    Edited by Christopher Craig, Enrico Fongaro, and Akihiro Ozaki

    November 2, 2018
    Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
    MIMESIS INTERNATIONAL

    Amazon
  • HOW TO LEARN? NIPPON/JAPAN AS OBJECT, NIPPON/JAPAN AS METHOD
    HOW TO LEARN? NIPPON/JAPAN AS OBJECT, NIPPON/JAPAN AS METHOD

    Christopher Craig , Enrico Fongaro , Akihiro Ozaki
    Edited by Christopher Craig, Enrico Fongaro, and Akihiro Ozaki

    April 7, 2017
    Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
    MIMESIS INTERNATIONAL

    Amazon