Yonaoshi (世直し、よなおし, world renewal/repair/remaking) is a Japanese term that first appeared in the context of peasant uprisings in the mid-19th century and signified the resto- […]
Category: Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
Editorial Board
Raffaele Milani (University of Bologna), Rolando Minuti (University of Florence), Ikuko Sagiyama (University of Florence), Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University), Judit Arokay (Heidelberg University), Harald Fuess (Heidelberg University), Ivo Smits (Leiden University), Franco Mazzei (University of Naples “L’Orientale”), Giangiorgio Pasqualotto (University of Padua), Matilde Mastrangelo (Sapienza University of Rome), Glenn Hook (University of Sheffield), Akihiro Ozaki 尾崎彰宏 (Tohoku University), Ryūsaku Nagaoka 長岡龍作 (Tohoku University), Hiroo Satō 佐藤弘夫 (Tohoku University), Yoshimichi Satō 佐藤嘉倫 (Tohoku University), Akinori Takahashi 高橋章則 (Tohoku University), Paul Ziche (Utrecht University), Bonaventura Ruperti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Georg Stenger (University of Vienna)
Revolutionary Times. A Comparative View of the Long 1960s in Japan and Italy
The “long 1960s”, beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the mid-1970s, was an epoch defined by its social and political upheavals and international scope […]
Images, Philosophy, Communication
Images represent a fusion of creativity, imagination, and symbolism and are crucial to the human quest to discover, invent, and experiment with ever-new visions. Philosophy […]
Furusato. ‘Home’ at the Nexus of History, Art, Society, and Self
Furusato mimessFurusato (home, hometown, and/or place of origin) is a revered and idealized concept in Japan. On an individual level, it plays a central role […]
Fukushima, Northeastern Japan and the Conceptualization of Catastrophe
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011 was a complex event. It was a disaster of multiple dimensions, unleashing the linked […]
Knowledge and Arts on the Move. Transformation of the Self-aware Image Through East-West Encounters
East and West have long stood as towering edifices dividing history and the world into separate spheres. In fact, the two poles have not only […]
How to Learn? Nippon/japan as Object, Nippon/japan as Method
How is one to learn in a time of globalization? And in particular: how is one to learn if the research “object” is a non-European […]